Pros And Cons Of Article Phone Patrol

You get pulled over by the police and they arrest you over several suspicions, the police start checking you and eventually they land on your phone, they take it and start sifting through it? Has this officer gone too far? I don't think so, I think that officials should be able to use information they obtained from private devices or social networking sites in order to protect the community. What if the person the police had arrested was actually a bad person, if they search his phone they might find crucial information to convict the person. As explained in the article Phone Patrol “...Officers are allowed to ‘open and examine’ what they find on an arrested person, without a warrant”. You never want to take chances as a police officer, it is better to search everyone's phones than not to, because it might let a criminal escape justice. In addition, this could also apply to students and what they choose to upload onto social media. If a student is caught cyber bullying another student, the school should definitely get in the way and try to stop the situation …show more content…
Some say that it is be a violation of privacy. As explained in the article Phone Patrol “San Diego resident Jim Tharayil added that he thinks the policy could be abused. He told San Diego 6 News that he can imagine police officers “using something else to pull you over and then using this to look through your cell phone.’”. However, anything you have done online could have been prevented, and it can still be undone in some cases, but a serious crime can not be undone. Fortunately serious crimes are also preventable if the officer could check a suspect's phone or online activity it would greatly increase the chances of the officer finding out what the criminal was doing. This same thing could be applied to students, if schools could catch and stop bullying online it might prevent any actual physical confrontation between the