July 8, 2010
Modern recording devices are a boon to law
enforcement. Wiretaps betray crooks plotting their crimes.
Surveillance cameras on city streets identify muggers and drug
dealers. Video gear in patrol cars shows drivers who can barely
stand, much less walk a straight line. But as Steve Chapman writes,
when it comes to capturing some of the most important information
available for fighting crime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
would rather see no evil and hear no evil.
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