Top Ten Most Stolen Cars
According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a vehicle is stolen every 26.4 seconds. Don’t be fooled by the quality of the car you own. According to the NICB, the average cost of stolen cars is...
View ArticleBronx Cab Driver's Murder Prompts Investigation Into Taxi Surveillance Systems
In a tragic incident that underscores the need for companies and individuals to secure their vehicles, a livery cab driver was shot and killed in what was believed to be an attempted robbery Monday...
View ArticleLawyers Use GPS Ankle Bracelet Data to Defend Accused Shooter of Five Year...
Police plan to use GPS coordinates to try and determine the location of a teen involved in the shooting of a five year old girl. Lamont Davis was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet that police cut off when...
View ArticleSurveillance Cameras Taking a Bite out of Crime in Newark Public Housing Complex
A Contract Security worker from Winfield Monitoring the Security feeds Until recently, the Newark Public Housing Complex was a regular spot for drug dealers to do their business. The drug dealers would...
View ArticleInternet Eyes Awards the Public For Watching CCTV and Catching Crooks
There has always been somewhat of a struggle involved when trying to get people to actively participate in their communities safety. However a new innovative and cooperative system used to get people...
View ArticleIsrael Setting Up Nationwide Surveillance in Its Cities
The Public Security Ministry in the State of Israel has announced that they will be setting up CCTV systems in many of Israel’s cities. These surveillance systems will be part of the City Without...
View ArticleGoogle: A Kidnapper’s Best Friend
Criminals are always on the lookout for how they can use modern technology to make crime easier and more efficient. Their latest tool is one that we all know and use on a daily basis: the Google search...
View ArticleTumblr Blog Publicly Shames MacBook Thief
Joshua Kaufman, or @jmk as his followers on Twitter know him, has a problem: someone stole his MacBook on March 21, 2011, and the police haven’t been nable to recover it for him. This is a common...
View ArticleMajor U.S. Carriers Team Up to Prevent Cell Phone Theft
In a previous post, we wrote about thieves increasingly targeting smartphone owners — and the unwillingness of cell service providers to address the problem. We’re happy to report that the major...
View ArticleFacebook – A Criminal’s Worst Enemy?
By now, most people know that posting sensitive information on the web is a bad idea, especially on social media sites. We guess the perps you’ll read about below didn’t get the memo. Crime Ring Busted...
View ArticleA Prison Without Bars: How GPS Tracking Could Fix A Broken System
At some point in every American’s lifetime we’ve heard the assertion that “our prison system is broken”; now, at long last, a fix may exist — in the form of GPS tracking. A quick crunch of the numbers...
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