Robbery Suspect Tracked by GPS and Killed
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Robbery Suspect Tracked by GPS and Killed
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#2US drug abuse patterns have suddenly shifted over the past decade.
Prescription painkiller overdoses used to hover around the number of overdoses from heroin. In a few short years, they increased sixfold.
http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health...
http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescr...
http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2013/07/presc...
"Lojack in everything" is really cool, could push us towards a theftless society. We still have a lot of work to help people escape drug dependency, though.
Planet Money had an episode on Suboxone, a pill used to treat addiction, that was a pretty alarming look inside the insanity of US drug policy: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/31/157665908/episode-...
They see Suboxone as a sort of "miracle drug," a few people object to that description: http://www.thefix.com/content/trapped-suboxone
Either way, the podcast does a great job at illustrating just how complicated and intimately political pharmaceutical manufacturing has become.
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#3Last summer, a guy held up a pharmacy near where I was living in Somerville and dropped the (lojack'ed) containers in our garbage.
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#4US drug abuse patterns have suddenly shifted over the past decade. Prescription painkiller overdoses used to hover around the number of overdoses from heroin. In a few short years, they increased sixfold. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health... http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescr... http://www.drugabuse.gov/a…
I think consumer goods getting cheap relative to real property and other non-stealable things, and expensive things becoming online services with activation components, already is pushing the returns to theft down. Certainly, ATMs, credit cards, ACH payroll, etc. has pushed the returns to theft down (vs when people carried a lot more cash, or kept it in their homes...)
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#5...as for the technology used, it's kind of like the 1970's-era transponder from the movie No Country For Old Men (except GPS instead).
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#6US drug abuse patterns have suddenly shifted over the past decade. Prescription painkiller overdoses used to hover around the number of overdoses from heroin. In a few short years, they increased sixfold. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health... http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescr... http://www.drugabuse.gov/a…
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#7US drug abuse patterns have suddenly shifted over the past decade. Prescription painkiller overdoses used to hover around the number of overdoses from heroin. In a few short years, they increased sixfold. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health... http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescr... http://www.drugabuse.gov/a…
I think consumer goods getting cheap relative to real property and other non-stealable things, and expensive things becoming online services with activation components, already is pushing the returns to theft down. Certainly, ATMs, credit cards, ACH payroll, etc. has pushed the returns to theft down (vs when people carried a lot more cash, or kept it in their homes...)
yes, as per Piketty, r > g
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#8How long until people start using portable RF detectors/sweepers?
How long until people use these devices to manipulate police officers into shooting who they want?
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#9"As officers closed in, the man pointed a handgun in the direction of at least one of the officers; one or more of the officers opened fire, killing the man, the police said."
Why "one or more"? Is this unknown to the police or do the police just not report such things to the press?
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#10Is it worth keeping drugs off the non prescription market if it just leads to robberies and the killing of those robbers?