Police departments across the country are turning to GPS technology to track and apprehend criminals. The Global Positioning System is the latest secret weapon helping to control and reduce the incidence of criminal activity. Some departments have even set up an electronic surveillance section specializing in the ways in which GPS tracking can be useful to law enforcement. Thanks to GPS devices thieves, drug dealers, sexual predators and killers have already been captured, often without a warrant or court order. By contrast, law enforcement officials, when they discuss the issue at all, say GPS is essentially the same as having an officer trail someone, just cheaper and more accurate. Most of the time, judges have sided with the police. Advocates of GPS explain that the police have no need to obtain a warrant to track suspects electronically on public streets because the device provides the same information as physical tracking. With the courts' blessing, and the ever-declining cost of the technology, many analysts believe that police will increasingly rely on GPS as an effective tool in investigations and that the public will hear little about it.
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