In 1998,Darrin Sanfordwas convict of luring small fry with sexual motivation . He was released on probation and fitted with ankle GPS , but police say that technological precaution could n’t stop him from murdering a girl .
harmonise to a confession he gave police , Sanford catch a seventh grade female child on her manner home from Wal - mart and fetch her to an vacate home . After failing to rape her , he beat the girl to death .
Sanford was a registered Level 3 sexuality offender , the class deemed most likely to reoffend . So he was fitted with GPS , but why did n’t the GPS caution prevent this disaster ?
A few reasons . First , it was a inactive Global Positioning System , in which parole officers simply checker coordinates after the fact . That GPS data successfully extend to Sanford ’s eventual police force confession , but it did n’t prevent anything . And even active GPS , one read in realtime , would demand someone in reality checking the data and reason out what a registered sex wrongdoer hanging around in an abandoned building might connote .
A million thing could in all likelihood have come differently to prevent this tragedy , but I ca n’t help but concern that technological arrest phrase like “ GPS ” quieten us into a delusive sense of security measures , while computers gather nonmeaningful information of infinitely meaningful outcome . [ CNN ]
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