Ed Morrissey:
Perhaps Denver can heat a few homes with Parady's strawmen this winter. There is a vast difference between strapping a GPS locator onto "every Denverite," or even on every car in Denver, and reading the license plates already assigned to these vehicles. The readers work when cars get driven on public streets, and the plates do exactly what they are intended to do by the state of Colorado. The police use that data to find cars already 'of interest' to investigators, whether that be stolen vehicles, vehicles involved in hit-and-runs, and so on. The readers identify those vehicles so that police can find them quickly and further their investigations into crimes.
And that was just fine with Denver's city council until January of this year ... because now that includes investigating people who enter the country illegally and commit crimes here. Time to throw the victims of other crimes under the bus.
# posted by Ranger @ 2:17 PM
