A Tiny Constable and a Gigantic Stagecoach: The Supreme Court on Warrantless GPS Surveillance
Police surveillance has come a long way since Prohibition, when Roy Olmstead, once the youngest and most promising lieutenant in the Seattle police force, organized the largest and most successful alcohol smuggling operations in the Pacific Northwest. He figured out a way to ship English liquor to Vancouver and then transport the contraband to Washington State. His thriving operation relied heavily on communication with smugglers, distributors and even officials by way of tel