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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 08:32 PM
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Why do cops still put the same kind of wires on people that they did 30 years ago?
I'm watching "Righteous Kill" with Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino on Netflix streaming and as cops they have this woman wearing a wire and it is exactly the same thing we've seen being used for the last 30 years. My god, this is 2009. Don't they have the technology to accomplish this without taping a big wire to a person's body like the bad guys are that stupid and are clueless about it?
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 08:33 PM
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1. TV and Movie cops do
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 08:33 PM
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2. I don't think reality is well represented there.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-06-09 08:39 PM
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3. Obviously you're not into that whole brevity thing
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