Small towns are weird that way. When my town’s chief of police was arrested for selling confiscated guns, I found out that his wife was bringing home more money from her minimum wage cashier job.
The village can’t legally have a police department without a chief, so if it only has one part-time officer, he or she has to be the chief. Most of the time, law enforcement issues in that town are handled by the county sheriff’s office.
Wait… is one of us misunderstanding the word “minimum”? I know a lot of small town cops don’t make a lot of money (unlike state police), but I’ve never heard of any making only minimum wage.
Presumably she worked more hours than he did.
Yep. Overtime noted her paycheck.
Too lazy to look for a more appropriate thread or start a new one, but this kind of fits here,
Police in the United States are being advised not to look at iPhone screens secured with Face ID, because doing so could disable facial authentication and leave investigators needing a potentially harder-to-obtain passcode to gain access.
The whole privacy issue, because
The advice follows a recent report of the first known case of law enforcement forcing a suspect to unlock an iPhone using Face ID. The action subsequently helped police uncover evidence that was later used to charge the suspect with receiving and possessing child pornography.
Which is kind of inaccurate: the suspect was pressured to unlock the phone, not really forced as such. Maybe offered some kind of deal.
It is humorous, in a way, and a bit disturbing, but mostly not an easy question to resolve.
That’s odd, because FaceID’s big weakness is that anyone can point your phone at you and unlock it. One reviewer on YouTube complained that his kids grab his phone, point it at him, then run away to make a call/play with it. And the new password saving option means if you’re asleep/unconscious, someone with your phone can get into everything by pointing it at your face.
My understanding is that you can set it to require your eyes be open and looking at it before it will unlock. Or you can do other things to force the passcode.
The “Require Attention for Face ID” seems a little buggy, at least in my admitadly small sample size.
It began working correctly after I turned it off and on.
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Yeah, that’s iffy. On mine it does need to be near my face (about 18 inches), but it’ll open with my eyes closed, and I’ve got the attention thingy set. I’d disable it and go with my passcode but FaceID is handy in the car.
I have heard you can instantly switch to passcode by clicking the home button 5 times or with “Hey, Siri, whose phone is this?”
I don’t remember seeing this story earlier, but…
3 Florida Ex-Cops Sentenced In Scheme To Frame Innocent Black People
As your link says, the Chief is due for sentencing next month, but some of the officers who did his bidding have already been sentenced, and what really gets me about this whole thing is how lenient the Federal prosecutors were in the sentencing recommendations. They recommended 8 months of home confinement for one cop, and one year of probation for another, after those cops framed a 16-year-old black kid for a series of burglaries.
I understand that prosecutors sometimes have to give more lenient deals in order to get cooperation, and these cops did testify against the Chief at the trial, but even the judge thought that the prosecutors had let them off too light:
I would add that it’s also insulting to the people whose civil rights those cops violated.
The prosecutor argued that he had recommended the light sentences because he really needed the testimony of those cops to get the Chief.
This. If it were up to me, they’d be serving the entirety of the sentences the people they’d framed would have served, if they’d been convicted.
IOW, see you guys in a few decades.
I’m not going to disagree.
FYI, this story is not going viral on twitter. Retweets are in the single digits. Not a lot of outrage.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/BiscayneParkPD?src=hash
Never lose your ability to be shocked.
Now, you see, this is precisely the kind of calm and cool demeanor you need to have in a police officer so that they don’t needlessly escalate a situation. Good job officer!
I misread the headline as Police Man. It ends up he isn’t a police officer, my bad.
Pretty clear from the article he wasn’t a cop. And that he was in fact arrested. And charged. If you are going to post links to articles here, please actually read them first. Even in the pit.
Who are you the link police? I’ll post what I wish, and if I make a mistake I’ll point it out. So you can take you self-righteous attitude and stick it up your ass (and tell them Boromir sent you). Unless you’re making the claim you’ve never ever made any mistake by misreading something in your life.