Josh Shapiro

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Behind the Bastards · It Could Happen Here Weekly 241 · 18 Jul 2026 podcast

So find out who is at a protest.

So that was the big concern we had, was that they were being used for that instead of for what police said they were using them for, which is manhunts, basically, or, you know, identifying that somebody is in a specific location before SWAT team does a raid on that house.

So for the last year or so, we've had hundreds of people all over the country bringing these devices around with them to protests and just, you know, as they go about their daily lives to find out sort of what the lay of the land is and how often these are being used.

So we wanted to be able to get some real facts on the ground to clear it up.

And so over the last year, what we've seen is

They're being used much more rarely than most people think.

And we haven't seen really hardly any evidence of them being used at protests.

Most law enforcement agencies have come to the conclusion that the federal government has come to the conclusion that this technology does require a warrant and that it's more useful for locating a specific person than identifying people in a specific area.

It seems like what they're being used for, for the vast majority of things, is identifying that a specific person is in a specific house before a no-knock raid is executed.

So it's, it's, there is hope that at least at the state level, we can try to start closing these loopholes, you know, as a bandaid until the federal government maybe steps up in four to eight to 20 years.

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I think they're my favorite resource that we put out.

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