Police are using GPS tagged prescription bottles & DNA mist to spy on us
NYPD police shot & killed a man suspected of robbing a drugstore on the Upper East Side.
Scott Kato, 45, robbed the HealthSource Pharmacy on Second Avenue and 68th Street Friday afternoon, demanding cash and OxyContin, police said. He fled in an SUV and made almost 30 blocks when cops tracked him down, police said. How? One of the pill bottles he took from the drugstore was actually a decoy containing a GPS device, police said.
The decoy bottles were introduced last year by the police commissioner at the time, Raymond W. Kelly, who announced that the department would begin to stock pharmacy shelves with decoy bottles of painkillers containing GPS devices. The initiative was in response to a sharp increase of armed and often deadly pharmacy robberies across the state, frequently by people addicted to painkillers. While the New York Police Department was not the first in the state to use the decoy bottles, it was among the first to publicize the program, believing that the publicity could deter prospective robbers. Other police departments chose to keep the initiatives private, concerned that if robbers knew of the GPS devices, the risk to pharmacy workers could be greater. The bottles are designed to be weighted and to rattle when shaken, so a thief does not initially realize they do not contain pills. Each of the decoy bottles sits atop a special base, and when the bottle is lifted from the base, it begins to emit a tracking signal. Previously, this service was only available via their website, Rxpatrol.org, but Purdue Pharma recently announced the creation of the RxPATROL Twitter feed, which will allow users to view updates in their area or nationwide using their smart phones and other mobile devices. Companies who produce some of the most sought after and most addictive drugs are also joining forces with law enforcement, as well as pharmacies, to provide education and training on how to prevent and deal with a pharmacy robbery. One such advent is RxPATROL system (Rx Pattern Analysis Tracking Robberies & Other Losses) developed by Purdue Pharma (makers of OxyContin/oxycodone). This system is an easy way for everyone involved, from law enforcement to pharmacy technicians, to access information about pharmacy robberies in their area. RxPATROL goes further than that though, providing in-depth reports on pharmacy crime and prevention, tools, the ability to track trends in criminal activity, and even providing law enforcement with closed circuit video and photographs of suspects after a robbery. One unique feature is that it allows law enforcement to network and build relationships in order to solve robberies where the suspect may have crossed into another jurisdiction.
The new low-cost technology being employed in Long Island, New York, is a DNA tracking system developed by Applied DNA Sciences of Stony Brook. It is essentially a device that sprays a mist which envelopes the suspect as he/she exits the pharmacy after a robbery, covering them with a mist (unnoticeable to the suspect) that contains plant DNA that is visible only when using special light.
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Again its all about the money, private companies will do anything no matter the cost to turn a profit!
Nationwide, decoy bottles have “assisted in the arrest of 111 pharmacy robbery suspects across the country, some of whom have been implicated in multiple pharmacy robberies,” said a Purdue spokesman, James W. Heins, adding that the bottle-tracking program had been used in 33 states so far. He would not comment specifically on the case on Friday. “We have been working with the N.Y.P.D. to implement the bottle-tracking program throughout New York City,” he said. “We are reluctant to comment on an active police investigation until the authorities have released additional information.
More secrecy but this time its from a private company not the police!
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/25538225/shooting-near-fdr-drive
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/nyregion/robbery-suspect-tracked-by-gps-and-killed.html?hpw&rref=nyregion&_r=0
