Sounds like we have a problem with repeat offenders in child abuse cases. Even more troubling is that these sick-minded individuals often commit their crime and then kill the victim to avoid future identification. There are too many of these cases in the news lately. I propose a new technology to be used in surveillance; RFID tracking of convicted felon’s car. If the car passes through a school it will be registered. If the car stays too close to a school or playground where children frequent, a central system will be notified that will track and alert the police. I have come to this conclusion after much review and reflection. Do many say that we should put a bullet in their head and/or never let them out of prison? Such logic seems like a good solution, although once a person has served his sentence he should be able to reintegrate into society. The problem is that society has determined through trial and error that the risk of recidivism is too great when they protest in front of the homes or apartments of ex-sex offenders.

We don’t have the resources to constantly monitor these people. All surveillance professionals know that the people they observe are generally very mobile; moving from one place to another frequently. The FBI and CIA know that keeping a close watch on such people is difficult, time-consuming, and logistically extremely costly. A man-to-man coverage is often employed as a strategy much like a basketball defense strategy; expect in this case that the surveillance equipment becomes the background of the target. Another way to set up a defense program is by tracking each and every target in a larger grid format; grid defense. This becomes problematic when a surveillance target’s transfer crosses territorial boundaries or during the transition, the target does something unexpected. But even if we did this to child molesters, we just can’t afford it. There are almost as many people on Internet sex offender lists as Lawyers in our country. We just can’t keep an eye on everyone, the costs to the taxpayer and the manpower required are logistically impossible; Or is that it? I believe that through new technologies we can have our cake and eat it too.

With more and more people being put on watch lists by paranoid government bureaucrats and more and more people using the government to attack their enemies by putting them on watch lists, the costs are getting pretty high. This means budget increases from taxpayers’ money, which is a problem due to government borrowing. As the Department of Homeland Security discovered, it is nearly impossible to police all possible new insurgents in the country of the United States and those in organized crime, such as gangs, radical groups, or even potential connections to international terrorists. Most citizens are more concerned about child molesters than international terrorists in their community. In reality, they should be more concerned about getting environmental cancer or dying in a car accident in the United States. But the people and citizens of our nation want to be protected, and the FBI and law enforcement professionals are already very busy.

I propose a new invention. A passive RFID tag, which plugs into a car’s electrical system. This is how it should work. First, the RFID tag’s antenna would be made of a highly conductive material and would have very sharp internal angles. Here’s a picture of an RFID tag;

Figure number one:

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Figure number two:

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The tags would be attached under the car to the exposed wires, giving them power when they needed it. Passive tags would simply ride on the wires until they passed a sensor. The sensor readers would be placed inside off-site traffic signal poles and would have a small piece of tape on the outside of the sign that would be a cell phone antenna. The traffic sign itself would be the RFID receiver antenna, which would be placed on the outer edge of the glow-in-the-dark strip around the traffic sign.

In figure one, the RFID tag antenna would be placed along the length of the cable and attached by splicing the cable at two points along the length of the antenna. In figure two, the antenna would perhaps be placed inside a frame rail and wedged against an automotive electrical wire and spliced ​​at a point where the RFID tag pierces the polymer insulation on the wire. Every time a target passed such a traffic sign, the tag would alert the FBI surveillance center.

Using this system, we could reduce the number of FBI agents on the payroll and reduce taxpayer expenses for surveillance equipment by resorting to old-fashioned network defense surveillance. During the cold war, the FBI had placed transponder units on the dashboards of Russian diplomatic cars that beeped and identified the car every time it crossed a bridge outside of Washington DC. Such a plan is not without history, but with new technology and passive RFID tags, no one would know their car was being watched. The good part is that a helicopter, specially equipped police car, truck stop, cargo container tow truck, rest stop, overpass or border crossing could all be easily equipped with the same receiving device and would instantly pick up the gamma target and alert Central Command.

I believe that almost all suspected international terrorists can be traced without excessive taxpayer cost or errors during transfers from MI 6, Scotland Yards, FBI, CIA or other international anti-terrorism surveillance teams. Adding the latest, newest and least expensive technology to our arsenal will save millions of dollars of taxpayer money and many lives. And tracking down child molesters who usually stay regional using the same network defense plan should be pretty easy. If we use the research and development funds for the Department of Homeland Security and DARPA to fund this for international terrorism; once the system is in place, we can track down child molesters with ease. Think about this; Do you want to protect your children?