Re: [d@DCC] RE: Surcharge

From: "Krishna E. Bera" <keb _-at-_ cyblings.on.ca>
To: General Discussion <discuss (at) digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:22:24 -0400 (EDT)
References: <20040816201138.70238420CE@smeagol.ncf.ca>

i don't understand why anyone is being billed for wiretaps.
why can't the police go to Bell's office and
plug a recording device into the switchboard?
this looks like another public subsidy to a private corporation.



On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Wallace J.McLean wrote:

> >Perhaps the fairest thing would be for the cost of the investigation
> >to be billed to the convicted criminal.
> 
> But convictions are a subset of tried offenses are a subset of charged
> offenses are a subset of investigated offenses.
> 
> If the costs of wiretaps are getting that out of control, I take it as
> prima facie evidence that perhaps it's being overused as an investigative
> technique.
> 
> 
> 
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