Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Another feel-good law passed by Minnesota Democrat-controlled legislature. If your cell phone is stolen, the cell phone company must do something to switch it off so thieves can’t use it.
Private industry already offers that service – you call the cell phone provider to report your phone stolen and they shut it off.
There are two ways to kill a phone: the Hard Kill that turns the phone into a brick permanently, and the Soft Kill that shuts it off temporarily, but we have no control over which option your cell phone company takes so if the phone is lost but recovered, it still may be unusable.
Worse, industry experts don’t think it’ll solve the problem because thieves can work around the shut-off with SIM cards and computer program.
Providing a mandatory service costs the cell phone provider money. The state isn’t funding this service. So your cell phone rates will go up to pay for other people’s carelessness.
The U of M Police Chief who claims guns are often used to steal cell phones on campus is LYING. He must be, the U of M is a “gun-free” zone.
Joe Doakes
It’s amazing how little the DFL accomplished this past session that wasn’t entirely “feel-good”.
I suppose it’s better than a #hashtag campaign. Marginally.
I don’t think that the MPLS politician whose MOA assault and robbery was a victim of “gun violence” was he?
A way to “kill” cell phones remotely? Will it work on phones that aren’t stolen, but people are using them to organize protests (and not just hashtags)? “Tell me more,” say the governments of Egypt, Syria, Thailand, U…..