SpyGearCo: Spy and Surveillance

Sex offenders are clearly a threat and commit horrific crimes, but how great is the danger? After all, there are many dangers in the world—from lightning to Mad Cow Disease to school shootings—that are real but very rare.

Real sex offenders, people who rape and prey on others, should be marked but the average person on the lists didn’t do anything wrong. Get the predators off the streets and we will all be safer. Really, is everyone that naive? No this is MySpace’s way of giving us false confidence.

Sex Offenders have “always” been in our communities. The notification process will remove their ability to act secretly. Sex offenders are classified according to their risk of re-offending: low-risk (Level 1), moderate risk (Level 2) and high-risk (Level 3). The Act requires that DCJS also maintain a public Subdirectory on the Internet which only includes Level 2 and 3 offenders.

Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it was not until passage of the Sexual Offender Registration and Community Notification Act that law enforcement even knew where they were living.

In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share information with you. Sex offenders is too broad. I wish they maintained a strictly child molester list. Sex offenders have always lived in our communities; but it wasn’t until the passage of the Community Protection Act of 1990 (which mandates sex offender registration) that law enforcement even knew where they were living. In many cases, law enforcement is now able to share that information with you.

Law enforcement cannot dictate where an offender lives, as long as the offender registers his/her residence with the appropriate jurisdiction. Laws are supposed to protect children. Laws like this should give judges some discretion to limit monitoring when appropriate. For some offenders, lifetime tracking might seem excessive.

Police and law enforcement have access to information on all sex offenders (levels 1, 2 and 3). However, under the law, information on level 1 (low-risk) offenders is not available on the public website.

Police forces can also apply for sex offender orders that bar offenders from certain activities and areas frequented by children. The most high-risk offenders are subject to further surveillance – which can include electronic tagging – by local multi-agency public protection panels which include police, probation, social services and other agencies.

Police statistics also underestimate the actual volume of sex offenses, because many such victimizations are never reported to police. Nevertheless, descriptions of the known Vermont adolescent sex offenders are consistent with findings from studies of child sex-abuse victims, which found disproportionate perpetration by men (2,3).

Sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff on scheduled periodic bases, which is determined by their sex offender Tier classification. In addition, sex offenders must register with the County Sheriff any change of residential address, place of employment, or enrollment in a school or institution of higher education.

Now let’s talk frankly about sexual offense prevention tactics—both traditional and new. First, incarceration. Without a doubt, it’s the most foolproof method. Unfortunately, that guarantee lasts only as long as the offender’s sentence which averages about seven years.

Then there is legislation that requires convicted sex offenders to register as such wherever they live. Or forbids them from living within certain distance of schools, parks, and daycare centers. Of course, the challenge of how to enforce these laws still remains.
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According to a national survey, only drugs are a greater child safety concern among parents and grandparents than child kidnapping!

Despite the concern, more than one-third of respondents did not know that children are more likely to be kidnapped or abducted by someone they know than by someone they don’t. Parents seem to fear kidnapping more than anything else. Some say that excessive television news coverage of child abduction causes parents to have a fear that is overblown.

Parental child abductions are frightening – especially when the children are taken overseas. These cases are difficult to navigate as international laws come into play. Parents are seeing their worst fear on live TV and it terrifies them. The statistics released are also terrifying.

Kidnapping occurs whenever a person is taken or detained against his or her will, and includes hostage situations. Moreover, kidnapping is not limited to the acts of strangers but can be committed by friends, by romantic partners, and, as has been increasingly the case in recent years, by parents involved in acrimonious custody disputes. Kidnapping is actually a combination of two crimes. One is abduction, which involves taking a person from one place to another.

Parents involved in a custody dispute sometimes abduct their children. When one parent has ties to another country, the danger of international child abduction becomes more serious. Parents should also be aware of registered sex offenders in their neighborhood or near their child’s school. Links to sex offender registries nationwide can be found at www.LiveSecure.org .

But now we learn the child usually knows the kidnapper. Besides, to a child, a stranger quickly becomes an acquaintance once the child learns his name, he’s no longer a stranger. But by combining forces and seizing eagerly on opportunities for cooperation, we can do a great deal. But it is just as often that the dream of a happy family and the actual reality are at odds. In spite of the fact that material well-being has increased and technological advances have been made, the European picture of the family is overshadowed by a number of factors.

These days, children are being abducted more than in the past. NCMEC has handled more than 160,000 reports of child sexual exploitation through its congressionally mandated CyberTipline at www.cybertipline.com. For more information about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST (1.800.843.5678) or visit www.missingkids.com. NCMEC is a non-profit system with federal affiliation; they work with the law enforcement divisions on your case. Most other “list your missing child here” websites are hosted by people who’ll contact you and promise to find your child in exchange for large amounts of money.

Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun. Check First – children should always check with parents and guardians before accepting gifts, rides or invitations from anyone, including friends, acquaintances and people they don’t know. Being with another person in public is safer and more fun.

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Employee theft accounted for over 41% of inventory shrinkage, while only 35% was attributed to shoplifting. A reason for this is because companies started to direct their attention to and have successfully reduced shoplifting.

Employee theft can occur in any company, despite measures taken to prevent it. The only control an employer has over theft is to lessen the likelihood of it occurring and therefore decreasing the amount of revenue lost. Employee theft situations are occurring quite frequently in the corporate world. The situation has left many organizations in a state of shock.

Business proprietors should be encouraged to report all crime. Proprietors claim the main reasons for not reporting include reporting the crime would not achieve anything (42 per cent); the police could not do anything (42 per cent); the incident was not serious enough to report (38 per cent); and the chance of success was slight (37 per cent).

Small Business owners must be aware of these facts in order to detect employee theft. It is a common fact that most employers do not suspect their employees of theft.

Employee theft can take many forms, from stealing office supplies or merchandise, to stealing time by improperly reporting sick leave and vacation to stealing intellectual property and confidential information. When employee theft is discovered, the employer/owner feels violated and often reacts out of emotion.

Individuals who are saddled with debt are more likely to succumb to financial pressure and steals from the company they work for.

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Companies need effective systems that can tell them immediately who has a particular asset and where it is located. They also need to track assets that have been disposed of, to ensure that their financial records do not include assets they no longer own.

Asset tracking is a well understood problem and has had several solutions applied to try and solve. One method currently being used is the inclusion of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip inside the asset. Asset tracking and digital home inventory software made simple!

Asset tracking enables asset managers to track asset location and to indirectly monitor the asset usage status in real time by using mobile wireless sensor nodes attached to each asset. The suggested solution will reduce costs associated with asset tracking and management and improve asset utilization and operational efficiency.

GPS asset tracking ensures that any deliveries to be made will arrive at their proper destinations. If a problem arises and a delivery isn’t made, GPS tracking history allows delivery companies to retrace their steps and see what went wrong. GPS asset tracking devices help secure your mobile assets and shipments as they travel around the world and through the distribution supply chain.

With GPS asset tracking systems you can achieve increased asset, and real-time supply chain visibility while, at the same time, reducing your insurance rates and security expenses. GPS Asset Tracking is usually to track vehicle like cars and trucks and some important gadgets like laptops or cell phones. If you have luxury car, you can installed GPS tracking in your car just to protect it from being stolen.

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Surveillance of the public now extends well beyond video cameras to include vast systems of identification, data monitoring, and tracking. And these days portable surveillance is getting smaller and smaller. Public surveillance technologies are increasingly embedded in urban infrastructures, transportation systems, cell phones, identification documents, computer programs, televisions, medical and consumer products, and much more.

Video surveillance systems can also be used inside and outside schools and private residences as an extra measure of security. There are a myriad of different systems with varying levels of sophistication within a wide price range. Video surveillance systems are even common in commercial, industrial, and residential environments.

A common surveillance activity is to track important people, or people exhibiting suspicious behavior, as they move from camera to camera. The Micro PI CamStick PRO is an easy-to-use micro camcorder that monitors your home, office, kids, pets, any place or anything you want, including your cheating spouse. 

Security personnel have to deal with threats of terrorism, the many rules and regulations of the aviation industry, and the hustle and bustle within the terminal. Without using the newest innovations in video surveillance technology, airports wouldn’t be as safe as what they are today.

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Parents need to be in regular contact with their children whom nowadays almost all carry a cell phone and may be occurring and to check teen cell phones periodically for proper use. Also, parents need to talk to their teens about proper cell phone use and reporting abuse immediately. Parents have even more reason for concern. Parents can also receive a confirmation that evening that their message was sent.

Many times the cell phone of a teen is in another location or in a backpack where in many cases parents cannot reach their child. In an emergency, parents need to reach there child or teen right away.

Parents should also explain to their children that text messaging is not an acceptable forum for discussing more serious matters. Parents, alike, should understand that if there is an emergency, they are to contact the school’s front office in order to reach their child.

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Using a Hidden Camera with the new USB/DVR4 has the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR. New H.264 compression offers 4 times the storage per gigabyte and higher D1 resolution than other models. Use the power of your own PC to obtain a professional grade 4-channel digital video recording system at a fraction of the cost of a “stand alone” DVR.

The USB/DVR4 has Power of H.264 Compression – 704 x 570 Super Hi Resolution. To set up a powerful 4 cameras professional hidden camera system, simply plug in the USB 2.0 cable to your Windows based PC or laptop, attach your own hidden cameras, and you’re done! All the advanced features, usually found in only high priced, professional units, are at your command.

You may use wired hidden cameras by simply plugging the RCA jack from the hidden camera to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR. Or in the case of wireless hidden cameras, simply attach one end of the RCA cable from the wireless receiver that comes with the hidden camera and the other end to one RCA jack of the USB/DVR.

Bear in mind that using wireless hidden cameras require a wireless receiver and the Line Of site between the camera and the receiver is generally limited to 1,000 Ft. LOS and walls and other obstacles may and probably will decrease the range. In addition a wireless router that is on in the vicinity of the cameras receivers may also interfere with the 2.4Ghz signal if the router is on the same frequency. So, if you can manage a wired hidden camera installation your better off going that route.

The USB/DVR uses H.264 is a video compression technology in the MPEG-4 standard, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. Using H.264, you can delivery higher-quality video with less bandwidth than many alternative encoding’s.

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Jaycee Dugard was last seen as she was walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. She was trying to catch her school bus.

Jaycee Dugard , who spent 18 years in captivity, is finally speaking out about her ordeal in the pages of People Magazine . The mag, which hits newsstands on Friday, also features the first adult photo of Jaycee Dugard released since she was found. Jaycee’s family has prayed for her return.

They have held vigils and begged for help from the community. Jaycee Lee Dugard and her two children were rescued 18 years after she was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe at age 11. During the 18 year period her alleged kidnapper, Phillip Garrido fathered her two children, now aged 11 and 15. 

Perhaps the death penalty does not apply in kidnapping and rape – although that can take someone’s quality of life away like it did for the victim, but, Phillip and Nancy Garrido took 18 years of this girls life.

Children under the age of 6 are primarily targets of family kidnapping, which peaks at about age 2 and declines thereafter. The risk of kidnapping by a stranger is comparatively low for preschoolers but rises throughout the elementary school years and reaches its peak around age 15. Children of middle-class or upper-class Mexicans, yet the problem does span all socio-economic levels, are too often stolen away from their families and homes. Kidnappers can work in sophisticated groups, following family members to learn routines or working with the help of hired domestic employees. Children should make a deal with their parents that they’d never call from an ATM. If they do, it’s likely they’re in a heist — and the red flag has been raised.

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Jaycee Duggard’s kidnapping/rape, is by no means a story that one, especially a news reporter, should poke fun at. Shame on the BBC and this dippy reporter! Jaycee and these two children had virtually no life they could call their own. Their world was the secluded quarters of a cloistered backyard.

Jaycee Duggard was held hostage more than 1,000 times as long as the Stockholm bank employees. She was alone much of that time, not part of a group. Jaycee Duggard’s road back depends upon the minds agility, too.

Because now she must see that she was in danger from predators who posed as her saviors. Jaycee Duggard was 11 years old when she was snatched off the street by two people in a car near her home in South Lake Tahoe in full view of her step-father in 1991. She had been kept in backyard sheds at the house of her kidnappers for 18 years and is the mother of two girls, 15 and 11, fathered by Philipp Garrido, a convicted and listed sex-offender, who kidnapped her with his wife.

There are and will be many more Jaycee Duggard’s as our world explodes in violence as we reach the apocalypse in 2012.

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Cell phone tracking is neither good nor bad. It is just one tool in the toolbox for parents. Cell phone tracking is more usable from afar. Perhaps people don’t mind being located in proximity to a cell tower (presuming no GPS enabling, which if they’ve done, I presume they don’t mind more specific tracking). Cell phone tracking is used to solve more routine crimes like car theft which has never reported outside the local papers.

If you’ve heard of free cell phone tracking available on the Internet, think again. GPS cell phone tracking is growing in popularity among consumers. As the cell phone technology improves, people are realizing just what they can do with their phones and GPS cell phone tracking has become quite popular. GPS tracking is probably never going to be free in my lifetime. There are too many powers that be that have a vested interest in making me pay for this type of information. GPS phones work very well for turn-by-turn directions on highways, roads, and cities wherever you get coverage and in some cases, just by satellite. They work just as well as a dedicated GPS for this purpose offering voice commands and visual mapping on the screen.

Mobile phone tracking software is one of the surest ways for tracking lost cell phones. Users simply have to subscribe for the software and acquire a license from the preferred company and install the software in their cellular phones. Mobile cell phone theft is on the rise like nothing else and it did not need to have a rocket scientist to oversee at the launch of this technology that cell phones will be prone to theft like never before. Just as the name suggests cell phones are mobile, small in size and portable. Mobile applications will play a large role as well. Interoperability of systems will continue to be a big focus, especially in areas such as emergency management.

Parents should be able to trust their kids enough to not spy on them. They probably already have an idea of where their children are; they don’t need to track everything. Parents can use them to monitor their children, friends use them to keep up with one another’s hangouts, and travelers use them to find local information and directions wherever they are. These and yet-unimagined uses are only going to become more commonplace, as products such as Apple’s iPhone 3G and T-Mobile’s G1 bring cell phone GPS tracking and applications into more and more people’s pockets. Parents can keep a watch on their children’s habits through cell phone tracking. Investigation agencies too monitor known criminals.

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