{"id":246,"date":"2007-07-07T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/07\/a-probable-cause-standard-for-in-car-surveillance-systems\/"},"modified":"2007-07-07T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T18:47:00","slug":"a-probable-cause-standard-for-in-car-surveillance-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/07\/07\/a-probable-cause-standard-for-in-car-surveillance-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"a probable cause standard for in-car surveillance systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>nate chapnick of edmunds.com offers a nice piece on surveillance systems and in-car cameras<\/a> that allow parents to monitor their teen drivers. one firm will track your car’s sudden movements, record the data on a website, and assign your kid a “risk score.”<\/p>\n

i once scoffed at such surveillance measures. then i thought about the two teenagers in my <\/em>house hurtling down the road in three-thousand pounds of steel.<\/p>\n

the data tell us that when teenagers die, they are likely to die behind the wheel. the centers for disease control<\/a> report that “motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, accounting for 36% of all deaths in this age group” and that “the risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group …. per mile driven, teen drivers ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than older drivers to crash.”<\/p>\n

though i understand these risks, i’m too much of a small-l libertarian to monitor my kids electronically. i’ve decided to adopt a probable cause<\/a><\/em> standard for implementing such surveillance. that means that i won’t hassle with such stuff unless and until i have information sufficient to warrant a prudent person’s belief that tor or esperanza had been delinquent or that evidence of delinquency or contraband would be found in a search.<\/em>
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but that doesn’t mean that i won’t take steps short of full-on surveillance, such as implementing curfews, based on a less-stringent reasonable suspicion<\/a> <\/em>standard. if i judge that a reasonable parent in my circumstances could reasonably believe that tor or esperanza has been, is, or is about to be, engaged in delinquent activity, <\/em>i will strike down upon them with great rulemaking and furious anger. plus, i’ll take the keys.<\/p>\n

come to think of it, my kids don’t really need <\/em>to drive at all. if they broach the probable cause standard and behave so irresponsibly that i feel the need to purchase an in-car surveillance system, i’ll just hold the keys until they can afford to buy it for me. that’ll teach ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nate chapnick of edmunds.com offers a nice piece on surveillance systems and in-car cameras that allow parents to monitor their teen drivers. one firm will track your car’s sudden movements, record the data on a website, and assign your kid a “risk score.” i once scoffed at such surveillance measures. then i thought about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}