Indiana man charged with theft for removing police tracking device from car

Post by ralfd » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:21 AM UTC

rosybox wrote: post #56

However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. It's an occasion to call the police. Someone is either committing a crime by tracking you illegally or you're letting the police know you found their tracker. Maybe they'll remove it, as once the tracker is known to exist it's useless. If you want to go the route of civil disobedience and take it off on moral grounds, y…

Post by MaxfordAndSons » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:30 AM UTC

ralfd wrote: post #101

rosybox wrote: post #56

However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. It's an occasion to call the police. Someone is either committing a crime by tracking you illegally or you're letting the police know you found their tracker. Maybe they'll remove it, as once the tracker is known to exist it's useless. If you want to go the route of civil disobedience and take it off on moral grounds, y…

> However you may feel about the theft charge, if you find a tracker on your car, don't take it off. Yes, but ... > It's an occasion to call the police. If you are a drug dealer it is an occasion to hide your supply extra hard. And use a second car/taxi for your drug dealing while using the compromised car for perfectly legal things like an upstanding citizen.

Post by masswerk » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:47 AM UTC

Post by HelloNurse » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

faceplanted wrote: post #104

cm2187 wrote: post #95

That part doesn’t sound right: > trackers placed by the government under a warrant are distinct from those placed by private citizens. Removing a device from a car where it has a legal basis to be “deprives the police of its use,” he claimed, and constitutes a crime. You have no way to tell a police tracker from a stawker’s one. How can removing it possibly constitute a crime?

Yeah, how can that law have Mens Rea if you can't possibly know, then again it's the police so justice doesn't always apply.

Post by amelius » Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 11:08 AM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #95

That part doesn’t sound right: > trackers placed by the government under a warrant are distinct from those placed by private citizens. Removing a device from a car where it has a legal basis to be “deprives the police of its use,” he claimed, and constitutes a crime. You have no way to tell a police tracker from a stawker’s one. How can removing it possibly constitute a crime?