One can only image having a quiet evening at home with your love ones and feeling like you are being watched. Yes, you are a little uneased because a week ago your home had been invaded by intruders who stole a few items. This left you feeling violated. Now, topping it off ant mounts are invading one’s yard and spiders are in one’s house. This is really bad, invasions upon invasions. As you attempt to relax, while thinking it cannot get any worst, you receive a call from a neighbor telling you that a van is parked outside of your home and it appears that you are being watched. Due to the previous break in, you call the local police force only to discover that they are the individuals in the van, and yes they are watching you. What makes matters worst is they can see into you through the walls of your home, just like a body x-ray. Keywords: body, brick, home, invasion, radar, scan, x-ray. New technology to enhance law enforcement officers are ever increasing. Through the discovery and use of new invention, law enforcement officers have acquired equipment that can be used to locate individuals, solving crimes quicker, or make their lives safer. This sounds great, but one may question some of the features that are provided within these highly technical devices. To have the ability to scan through walls and detect one’s location within the building is an invasion of one’s privacy. Yet, this can occur by using hand-held or wall-mount devices, or even a highly technical van. After the 911 bombings, Americans were more than happy to have stricter Transportation Security Administration (TSA) laws and procedures. One can remember the body scan, which as the technology gains perfection it became less acceptable to some in our society because of the invasion of one’s body. Many individuals stated questioning the intensity of the body scanning equipment, which was so vivid in the resolution that the image could make an individual feel violated. This research paper will discuss three type of scanner that can be used to invade your home. The scans can penetrate buildings, homes, concrete or brick walls, sheetrock, wallpaper, most structures that separate individuals from the great outdoors. As stated above this paper will cover three types of equipment that can penetrate the walls of your home, i.e., a wall device, hand-held radar, and a van. The first device can be attached to the wall. It is light weight and has been used of police officers since 2012. Once the device in secured, it detects movement, especially the distance of the movement from the officer. As noted by the PoliceOne Staff (2015), in the article “Controversy Rises over Police Radars that 'See Through Wall’,” in paragraph 5, it states that the device, the Range-R, will not show a picture, but can be used to determine how far the movement is from the mounted device. One can imagine how an
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The Z Backscatter Van (ZBV) uses technology to detect items that contain low atomic numbers (Macedo, 2015). It is used mainly used to scan vehicles and was noted as being able to see through one’s clothes. This van is pricy, ranging in cost from $729,000 t0 $825,000. The manufactures, American Science and Engineering (AS&E), may be viewed as money hungry as they do not limit or release information regarding those who have purchased the vehicle. With nearly 500 units being sold, the only purchasing information released is in regards to the destination, i.e., buyer in the Middle East, Germany, and various other locations. One would hope that this item is not being sold outside of the law enforcement community. According to Macedo, this vehicle have good benefits in assisting the law enforcement communities with drug bust by scanning cars and persons and home in which illegal activities are occurring (2015). The ZBV is mainly for car search, but can scan building with light exterior features. It cannot scan and tell the ethnicity of an individual, but does show the image of a silhouette. In our society police officers have been known to racial profile; therefore this leads one to suspect that one’s race may be assumed by the silhouette on the ZBV scan
The Z Backscatter Van (ZBV) uses technology to detect items that contain low atomic numbers (Macedo, 2015). It is used mainly used to scan vehicles and was noted as being able to see through one’s clothes. This van is pricy, ranging in cost from $729,000 t0 $825,000. The manufactures, American Science and Engineering (AS&E), may be viewed as money hungry as they do not limit or release information regarding those who have purchased the vehicle. With nearly 500 units being sold, the only purchasing information released is in regards to the destination, i.e., buyer in the Middle East, Germany, and various other locations. One would hope that this item is not being sold outside of the law enforcement community. According to Macedo, this vehicle have good benefits in assisting the law enforcement communities with drug bust by scanning cars and persons and home in which illegal activities are occurring (2015). The ZBV is mainly for car search, but can scan building with light exterior features. It cannot scan and tell the ethnicity of an individual, but does show the image of a silhouette. In our society police officers have been known to racial profile; therefore this leads one to suspect that one’s race may be assumed by the silhouette on the ZBV scan