GPS Catches Sex Offender On School Property

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http://sexcrimes.typepad.com/sex_crimes/2006/11/an_apparent_gps.html#comment-25317423">An Apparent GPS Success Story in California

I didn't even know the LAPD had a blog. There is a post there about a sex offender being caught on school property through GPS monitoring:

Los Angeles: A Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) has led to the arrest of a high-risk sex offender who trespassed on an elementary school campus yesterday in violation of his parole.

Ronald Bryant, 37, was taken into custody Friday, November 10,2006. Bryant is a high-risk sex offender who is monitored with an electronic ankle bracelet, which is part of the Veritracks GPS system. A Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer working out of the Real Time Analysis and Critical Response Division (RACR) was monitoring the system when he noticed Bryant had walked onto the Parmelee Avenue Elementary School campus at 1338 East 76th Place.

What is interesting is the comment: "The Apparent Success is actually a Woeful Failure." If you click on the link to read "ZERO: The value of Prop 83's GPS for preventing crimes" in the comment and read the story, it becomes obvious the police mislead at best or terrorize at worst.