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NYPD wants GPS chips in pill bottles now
The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips.
Police pharmacies to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves.
The New York Police Department believes the so-called “bait bottles” could help investigators track stolen drugs and locate suspects.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is expected to unveil the plan Tuesday at a La Quinta, Calif., conference on health issues hosted by former President Bill Clinton’s foundation.
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Yeah, no thief would ever think of dumping the pills in a plastic bag and tossing the bottle in a dumpster. Nah, never happen.
clippermiami on January 16, 2013 at 7:03 AM
And the dummy bottles won’t get treated differently than regular bottles by pharmacy employees, right?
Sekhmet on January 16, 2013 at 7:30 AM
I can see having bottles with drugs in them, that have less air due to a false bottom, using the usual air space as room for the chip. But an outright dummy bottle will get sorted and tossed, so that the pharmacy doesn’t screw up its inventory.
Sekhmet on January 16, 2013 at 7:34 AM
So, the thief uses his stolen iPhone to scan the bottles and dumping the live ones. Brilliant!
OldEnglish on January 16, 2013 at 7:48 AM
Someone has been watching too many cop fiction TV shows.
GPS chip…ok. They are small. But the rest fails miserably. Battery? Transmitter? Cost to do it pill size? Ever see an Oxy? They are smaller than a centimeter across.
Sheesh. Maybe a little NRA TV or Sportsmen Outdoors. Or even the History and Discovery Channels would be a better choice of TV viewing. And most RFID (not GPS) chip distances are at most in inches, not yards nor miles, in open air, not in brick buildings or metal boxes. Even near field radio would be tricky. Oh wait…let’s put RFID/NFC antennas all over the city…yeah…that works out. Well, to the union that has to install them, maybe.
And again, rather than focusing on preventing the crime, they focus on catching the criminal. Because cops are there AFTER the crime is committed to document what happened. That’s their job.
Call for better physical security and monitoring, though probably a lot of places have that already. Find out what fails in security and patch that.
But that isn’t the the Liberal Way.
(Yeah…I’m going there…following tactics Liberals have paved the way for us to use as well in return.)
For example:
Let teachers be armed in school and get rid of “Gun Free Zones” — simple, easy and effective.
Ban guns and register them: Not so much. Very complex, expensive and demonstrably ineffective.
“Gun Free Zones” still exist as the “Killing Fields” of our time. Liberals just don’t care to acknowledge it, since that would mean another of their grand ideas failed.
——
A government that fears an armed citizenry has much to fear. It means it is doing things that threaten the citizenry and should be replaced.
ProfShadow on January 16, 2013 at 8:29 AM
You are thinking all wrong. Just expand the pill size to be large enough to include the GPS device. Then include a free plunger to get it down the customer’s throat.
The Rogue Tomato on January 16, 2013 at 8:33 AM
The article makes a littly more sense than the headline. Sounds like an expensively bad idea.
Simply put the stolen cache in a lined bag and there’s no worries.
TerryW on January 16, 2013 at 8:50 AM
Even if it were practical(which it’s not) touting it before it even exists diminishes its effectiveness. They’re more interested in the politics than actually doing something about crime.
Fenris on January 16, 2013 at 9:24 AM
Yeah..what was I thinking? I know we all will have a GPS tracker implanted in our large muscle tissues Real Soon Now. Why bother at pill bottles when you can track citizens?
Many of us are already being tracked by the GPS system in our smart phones…and WE pay for that. But because we can throw them away, the Libs will want to have one shoved up our…. (you know where.)
ProfShadow on January 16, 2013 at 9:39 AM
NY is so full of stupid it’s amazing they don’t need instructions on how to breathe.
2lbsTest on January 16, 2013 at 9:59 AM
It’s no wonder sissypisspantsedalian lives there.
MelonCollie on January 16, 2013 at 1:48 PM