Something learned in my 30y career as low level felon and spending fairly significant amounts of time (to me at least...a week in jail is no picnic!) locked up in both jail and prisons...
95% of cases are made via informants and not CSI-type investigations, so the whole "going dark" thing, I feel, isn't going to affect law enforcement the way a lot of people think it might.
I did notice, however, my last time through the system last year, that the State is now making a bunch of cases using cell tower information to put the defendants near the crime scene during the approx time of the situation.
Going dark has a significant effect on law enforcement. It'll force them to rely on active investigations instead of passively collecting data that they can review at their leisure.
I think this will reduce their ability to target people for political reasons.
"isn't going to affect law enforcement" - at least the way it is now (and has been forever), but it greatly affects the way law enforcement would _like things to be_.
And I'm not at all happy with the implications of what "they" want...
95% of cases are made via informants and not CSI-type investigations, so the whole "going dark" thing, I feel, isn't going to affect law enforcement the way a lot of people think it might.
I did notice, however, my last time through the system last year, that the State is now making a bunch of cases using cell tower information to put the defendants near the crime scene during the approx time of the situation.
Just FYI.