The FBI has released an app that displays information about bank robberies:
The FBI today released a Bank Robbers mobile app designed to help the public, law enforcement, and financial institutions see and share photos and information about robberies all over the country.
The app allows users to sort bank robberies by date, state, category (armed? disguised? serial offender?), as well as the FBI field station handling the case. You can get surveillance photos, details of the crime, physical descriptions of the suspect as well as the FBI's wanted poster. And if you want, a push notification will tell you when a bank robbery has occurred near your location and a link to the FBI's online tips page.
Install FBI code on my phone? Why not!?
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:40PM
"Install this app and help law enforcement pro-actively by telling you where you are at all times. Have you /seen/ the ankle-band on your cousin's leg that she got after being convicted of her hilarious misdemeanor? Do you want one as well? Install this app now!"
I guess their rationale goes something along the lines of: People keep complaining when we ask GOOG, FB, TelCo's for your phone records and location data. What if we get people to hand it over to us directly...
Shiny baubles everyone, shiny baubles!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:30PM
"I don't trust the Government. There's no Government transparency! There's no Government transparency!"
Oh, look, here they're making crime statics available that is very easy to access!
"I don't trust them if they're giving me something for free!"
What a pathetic hypocritical whiner you are.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:44PM
I think the problem is that it's an app, which modern app appers know can only be apped by apps. Factsheets and websites that will just tell you the information, even in real time, are for LUDDITES.
Apps!
(Score: 2) by ticho on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:23PM
Where is the "+0 Missed the point" mod when you need one?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @08:55PM
Disagree
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:44PM
Occupy Everything! We are the 99.̅9% !!
Sorry I don't have a way to transmit odors over the internet so you'll just have to imagine unwashed urine soaked taint.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:16PM
Fortunately for you, it's very easy to transmit FOX News propaganda and lies over the Internet, though.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:46PM
...it told the robber/user, cash truck or safe timelock schedules?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:57PM
1. Rob bank with one burner phone.
2. Turn yourself in with another burner phone
3. ???
4. Profit!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday August 23 2016, @06:43PM
Hey, baby steps here! This still helps, by telling you to concentrate your efforts not on the branch that was just robbed (and thus has no money and a heavy police presence) but on the branch on the other side of town (which will take the cops a while to get to, because they're all busy at the last robbery).
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @02:52PM
Specifically on Killjoys. The stereotypical sexy rebellious bounty-hunters carry phones that show them details about their warrants. Why shouldn't life imitate art. That's what art is for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:27PM
If this app will make Hannah John-Kamen show up at my door to arrest me, it might just well be worth it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:39PM
They don't even bother with arrest warrants anymore since Dutch is too busy with the mystery of the "green shit." I really wish they'd give the mysterious green liquid a proper name and stop literally calling it "that green shit." Every week on Killjoys it's a new episode about "the green shit" and it's getting tiresome.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:52PM
I prefer this podcast [wikia.com].
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:12PM
Yeah, sign me up. And, let's see if the TSA wants to track me. And, the CIA - I'll just call every alphabet soup agency, and ask them about their app. Maybe Russia, Germany, the UK, and France want in on it. Interpol?
The up side? If I'm kidnapped, they'll all know where to find me!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:26PM
If you're kidnapped, someone still has to come get you.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday August 23 2016, @04:26PM
If you're kidnapped, your best strategy is to either be a pedophile, a terrorist or rob a banker. That way you know they'll be extra sure to come get you.
(Score: 3, Touché) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:23PM
I mean, after the banksters' continuous robbery of America, do people really care if a few banks robbed for a comparative pittance?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:43PM
if not fuck off and die. Those POS and the FBI are the real criminals here
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 23 2016, @03:48PM
And Hillary is Most Wanted among loyal Democratic Party voters.