Cops Revolt On Waze
Police officers in the Miami area appear to have figured out a way to keep potential cop-killers from using the Waze app to find their targets.
According to NBC News, Miami-area police officers are flooding the Waze servers with phony “cop-spotted,” messages in order to make it harder for users to actually know where police vehicles are.
There is some disagreement about whether or not the popular app actually poses a credible threat to police officers.
“If someone is suffering mental illness and they want to commit a heinous crime or hunt a deputy or a police officer; they don’t need Waze to do that,” Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters.
Others say it’s clear the app is a very real threat.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck addressed that concern recently in a letter sent to Google co-founder Larry Page.
“That danger was just demonstrated by its use in the recent assassination of New York Police Department officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu,” Beck’s letter read. “As I am sure you are aware, Ismaaiyl Brinsley used the Waze application to track the movement of law enforcement prior to his assassination of Officers Ramos and Liu.”
At any rate, it looks like the battle between law enforcement and the folks at Google is starting to heat up.
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