Criminalistics/
New surveillance technology
More than
50 U.S. law enforcement agencies are using a type
of radar that effectively lets officers peer through the walls of homes to
determine whether anyone is inside.
Agencies began
using the radar, known as Range-R, more than two years ago without informing
the public and with little notice to the courts. According to USA Today, federal
contract records indicate that the U.S. Marshals Service began purchasing the
technology in 2012, spending at least $180,000 on Range-R to date.
But its use was
only made public in December when a federal appeals court in Denver said that the radar had been used before entering a house to arrest a
man named Steven Denson for violating the conditions of his parole.
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