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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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Re: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

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jacquesm wrote: post #262
vasco wrote: post #255

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I don't think you understood, we weren't understaffed, that's besides the point as it's not hard to reply to an email. The main aspect is you should demand a warrant because you as someone that works for a private company shouldn't be the arbitrar of if a cop has enough or not (plus the cop will obviously not give you any details besides ongoing investigation in most cases). There's a job for that which is a judge. I…

> we Ah ok, never mind me then. I've in FBs position and I'm happy to report that we had a very well oiled process to deal with pederasts and assisted LE in putting a couple of them - also in the US and Canada - behind bars. That's one of the reason I knew that officer that I mentioned above. These people need all the help they can get, their departments are overworked and understaffed. Investigations are often a bit…

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Post by nprateem »

vintermann wrote: post #245
jacquesm wrote: post #102

So, I had a friend. Had because he's dead. He did this work for a decade and a half and then couldn't deal with it anymore. In that time he put countless assholes behind bars. At some point he stopped responding to my emails so I called the unit and they were absolutely devastated, this guy was the backbone of their operation, the one with by far the most computer experience of all of them. RIP Ronald. It is very har…

So why wouldn't the investigators follow the appropriate legal process? Now, I'm sure that everything present in this article is true . But I'm worried that the reason we get this article now (apparently the things the article describes happened 10-15 years ago) is because it's part of someone's job to build support for warrantless driftnet surveillance, mandatory real-ID systems etc. So I think it's fair to ask: why…

Because they were at an early stage of the investigation doing speculative lead following, which didn't reach the legal standard of suspicion for a court order?

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Post by amiga386 »

iso1631 wrote: post #251
somenameforme wrote: post #164

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I'm not sure that's what you meant to link to. The description there is beyond lurid, and that guy only ended up on a registry after a lot of shenanigans.

> he was convicted in 2015 of two counts of open and gross lewdness for displaying his genitals to a neighbor through the window of his home So he was naked in his own home? #Land of the free

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Post by mystraline »

infecto wrote: post #299
zdragnar wrote: post #105

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Back when my wife and I were renting, we only found out our landlord was on the list because his parole officer stopped by and asked if he'd informed us as he was legally required to do. We moved out rather quickly after that. If we were in a situation where we had to rent again, and went with an individual renting their own house rather than a company, checking out the registry is on the checklist of things to do.

Honestly I am surprised more real estate agents don’t already bake this into the workflow. Thinking about Zillow as well. There should absolutely be a way to identify all the folks during your home search (buying or renting) that are on the registry.

I found that realtors can't even do basic searches to determine which ISPs serve the house.

To expect them to be aware of multiple GIS layers is likely way out of their normal scope. Maybe it shouldn't be? But thats how things are now.

You, the client, should also do your own data collection from public and semi-public sources for things that are strictly outside MLS data capture.

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Post by whatsupdog »

habinero wrote: post #283
whatsupdog wrote: post #256

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Shoo. Peddle your incel garbage elsewhere.

Oh, so shaming people for number of sexual partners they have is back in fashion? Or it's just ok when we do it to men? Lol, hypocrites.

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Post by michelb »

e40 wrote: post #305
dhosek wrote: post #176

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Other things that could get you on the registry include visiting a nude beach in California or being an 18-year-old high school student with a 17-year-old girlfriend and having your sexual activity discovered by a vindictive parent (that last one will get you the bonus bar of shame of criminal activity involving a minor). The registries are rather blunt tools and also end up doing things like making getting housing d…

How can visiting a nude beach get be a trigger?

America?

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Post by boobsbr »

ggm wrote: post #28

periodically the various forces tackling CSAM release images which are ENTIRELY SFW, and are purely of a jersey, a backpack, a location, a tea setting, and ask people to tell them things: Was this available in Belgium? Did you ever see this in a second hand shop? Do you recognise the logo on this bag? Information inside images is useful for this kind of struggle to identify victims of crime.

I tried helping with that once, but after looking at a few images, I really felt like throwing up.

I'm not built for this.

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Post by bmn__ »

znnajdla wrote: post #180
Aurornis wrote: post #30

Am I reading this correctly that the address where they found the child was where her mother’s boyfriend was living? > "So we narrowed it down to [this] one address… and started the process of confirming who was living there through state records, driver's licence… information on schools," says Squire. > The team realised that in the household with Lucy was her mother's boyfriend - a convicted sex offender. There’s a…

Not surprising to me at all. I’m a straight man and I’ve always dated single mothers, and it always shocked me how bad their ex partners were. Woman are drawn to toxic abusers like men are drawn to OnlyFans models and the real victims are the children. And women can be incredibly blind to what is going on with their child when they’re in a codependent relationship with the abuser.

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