Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions

"The growing popularity of GPS systems — in cars, cell phones and other handheld devices — gives authorities another powerful tool to track suspects."
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Detectives have begun using personal GPS systems to monitor where suspects were at the time of the crimes they are suspected for. This has been used to convict a number of people in murder, rape, missing-person, and arson crimes. "The GPS feature on a cell phone has already helped solve at least one crime. In 2006, police in Virginia Beach, Va., used the GPS on a homicide victim's cell phone to find the phone and her purse in a garbage can behind a home. The home was linked to the man who was eventually charged with killing her."

I feel this is a great tool for law enforcement to use to track criminals. I feel that any extra tool, like GPS, may deter criminals from attacking people, knowing that a hand-held GPS may b eon their victim. This device also comes in handy if an alibi is lying. A GPS doesn't lie. Although many people might think of this practice as an invasion of privacy, using a suspect's (or victim's) GPS is a fair tool that should be put to use in every law-enforcement department.