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Waze, the Google owned app used by around 50 million drivers to know where law enforcements, traffic hazards and speed cameras are located, are now eyeballed by the police, believing it’s endangering their job as well as motorist’s life. At least that’s the case with Miami Police, which is now spamming the app with false location data to lure drivers and ticket the speeders more easily.
According to an NBC Miami report, many of the police officers in the area have downloaded the Waze app and have started reporting false locations hoping to catch speeding drivers.
That’s just one part of the story as some deputies believe the tool could aid police killers into tracking them more easily and ultimately executing them as it happened in December last year when a man ambushed New York Police Department officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
However, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel this is all nonsense. If a killer or a mentally ill person wants to butcher someone, including a cop, won’t need a special app to track them down.
On the other hand, a Waze spokesperson said their app is basically working in favor of the police as most users tend to drive more carefully knowing the law is around watching. So basically, all the police needs to do is stay put and watch the traffic all day.
All the fuss is said to have increased the app’s popularity, now being the 8th most popular free app in the App Store. For those that haven’t heard about Waze, the app lets users land some mark pins on a map to warn other drivers about police, speed cameras, congested traffic, crashes, road works and so on. The app also uses a ranking feature for each users to validate his/her credibility over time, which basically render the Miami police’s efforts useless.
That’s just one part of the story as some deputies believe the tool could aid police killers into tracking them more easily and ultimately executing them as it happened in December last year when a man ambushed New York Police Department officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
However, according to Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel this is all nonsense. If a killer or a mentally ill person wants to butcher someone, including a cop, won’t need a special app to track them down.
On the other hand, a Waze spokesperson said their app is basically working in favor of the police as most users tend to drive more carefully knowing the law is around watching. So basically, all the police needs to do is stay put and watch the traffic all day.
All the fuss is said to have increased the app’s popularity, now being the 8th most popular free app in the App Store. For those that haven’t heard about Waze, the app lets users land some mark pins on a map to warn other drivers about police, speed cameras, congested traffic, crashes, road works and so on. The app also uses a ranking feature for each users to validate his/her credibility over time, which basically render the Miami police’s efforts useless.
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