our guests, neema sink giuliani, legislative counsel ott the aclu, and mike doucette who is a commonwealth s attorney in virginia. how do police use cell phone tracking today? guest: we use it a number of different ways. obviously, we use it to try to find individuals in realtime as well as historical information, try to get that information as to where people have been in the past. in order to solve crimes that have occurred or are about to occur. so, but we do use it very much in that capacity. host: in your view, is it an effective tool? guest: it can be, absolutely. i mean, i can hi of one particular i can think of one particular very gruesome homicide we had in lynchburg a couple of years ago where while the case wasn t resolved by cell tower the information, that basically broke the case. we would have never found the suspect but for the information. so it can be very helpful. host: ms. guliani, are there restrictions on how the police can use cell phone track
since welfare reform has continued to rise, that maybe even risen faster, so we re spending more money actually fighting poverty since welfare reform than before welfare reform begin. these all in constant dollars. this is not just a reflection of inflation. this is a collection of where actually spending more money on antipoverty programs on the hundred plus programs i was talking about. even if we have somehow held and with its block grant state and its decline in real terms, what we ve done is simply shift spending to other programs, particularly to in kind of programs rather than cash programs. we have moved away from giving people cash and have increased hitting people of the types of benefits, housing, medicaid which is the biggest of all these programs, job training programs, education programs, food stands and so on are all together. at the same time the question that comes up with what we have done in terms of poverty. again this blue line behind me is when welfare r
he reads passages from his book and discusses the leading men the earlysed republic. mount vernongton s hosted this hour and 20 minute event. in 1789.s new york we are standing approximately in front of federal hall looking toward the east river of new york. even though the buildings are high,our or five stories they have some of the bustle it has had for the last 200 years. federal hall, even though the image i will show you in a minute looks very austere and classical, it is here. this is another image of new york. it may be somebody in this audience, i would bet a buck probably not, knows that this house standing at the manhattan into the holland tunnel it is not there anymore. this was the house vice president john adams rented for the two sessions the first congress met in new york. why am i showing it to you? to convey some sense of how rural manhattan was in 1789. the city ended about where new york city hall is today. if you went beyond city hall, you were going out
real time, as well as historical information as to where people have been in the past. they want to solve crimes that occurred were about to occur. they use it in those capacities. visit an effective tool is it an effective tool? i think so. case where itent broke the case. would never have found the suspect except for the cell phone tower information. are there restrictions on who will be police can use cell phone traffic? think it is important to talk about how some of these devices work. you may have heard the term stingray. one of the tracking devices that is used by law enforcement at the federal and local level. they impersonate a legitimate cell phone tower. they allow police to gather location information for serial numbers of not just a specific targets followed that all targets though phone, but all phones in the area. they can jam advice for making calls. this has extraordinary implications. the rights of the individual you seek to target and all other
our issues spotlight looks at voting rights and the impact on the 2016 election. we will feature part of the 2013 supreme court oral argument. members of congress look at whether to restore the voting rights act. here is what the presidential candidates have to say. now a lot of places will not have voter identification. you just keep walking in and voting? what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of of property or young people. a new report by the cato institute looks at crime reduction, fiscal policy, and taxes to determine state freedom rankings. this is about one hour. good afternoon. me to thisook to capitol hill briefing entitled freedom in the 50 states. peter russo. i want to thank you for showing up here today. i appreciate it. for those of you on twitter who like to get involved we re about #. the cato events we would love to hear from you. today marks the publication date of freedom in the 50 states, an index of persona