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Hey, welcome back to the Lars Larson Show.
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It's a pleasure to be with you.
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And I'm glad to welcome to the program Frank DeVito, who's an attorney.
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He's also the author of J.D.
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Vance and the Future of the Republican Party.
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Mr.
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DeVito, thanks for taking the time.
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I want you to help me sort out this uh Flock camera uh business because it leaves me, I'll admit right up front, it leaves me a bit conflicted.
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On one hand, I hear from the cops that the Flock cameras and all their other uh I guess uh the other private sector companies that do the same thing that Flock does, since Flock is a brand name, uh, that they've been incredibly helpful to the police in tracking down uh kidnapped kids, missing cars, stolen cars, armed robbers, and everything else.
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On the other hand, uh do I admit that it it seems a bit creepy that you've got hundreds of thousands of these cameras everywhere in America and that we're under the watchful eye.
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But every time somebody calls the show and says, Lawrence, we've got to protect our privacy, I said, when I'm driving down a road, uh a public road, and and it can see my license plate, I have an expectation of privacy.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think so.
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So help me help me understand is Florida right to take the root the you know the route they've taken and say, we're gonna get these things off of state roads, and should they be banned nationwide?
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Or are they useful and uh uh or are they too much of an intrusion into privacy?
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Where do you want to go with it, Mr.
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DeVito?
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Uh that was the best and most nuanced introduction to this issue that I've heard so far.
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So thanks for the that was a good start.
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A lot to unpack here.
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I do my best.
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So let's start with the the benefits, right?
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Because there are always trade-offs between the Did we just drop that call?
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I'll tell you what, let's see if we can get Frank back.
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I know that's a a pain in the backside sometimes when calls get dropped like that, but we'll get Frank DeVito back.
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I want to hear what he had to say.
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Uh nice that he gave me some nice kind words about the introduction.
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Mr.
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DeVito, sorry about uh I don't know what happened to the phone, but it
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So you're about to say, uh, let's start with the benefits, and you're right.
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I don't want to live up to Franklin's admonition.
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Don't trade some security, you know, some privacy for your security, or you'll end up with neither one.
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Well, how do how do we balance that?
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Right.
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So I think there's always a trade-off, and the scary thing is, you know, you can get as much security as you're willing to give up your freedom for, right?
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We've read 1984, you read Orwell.
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Um, you can have a very secure state where the government can see everything.
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And there, you're right.
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There's a lot of um good, right?
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You can stop, you can find kidnappers, you can track down uh dangerous criminals and all that.
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But I would say, for one, um I think that's a trade-off that goes way beyond what I would be comfortable with.
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Because again, you you were right.
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Do you have an expectation of privacy when you go out the door that somebody can't write down your license plate or or see where your car is going?
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Of course not.
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The problem is it starts to get scary with the level of technology with AI, right?
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Because it's a multiplier.
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So I don't actually think this violates the Fourth Amendment.
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I think this is non-private, reasonable search, but it's so hyper-inflated by what technology can do, right?
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Because it's not just a cop sees your plate, but it's these cameras can see your plate everywhere you go, everywhere you come.
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They can track patterns, they know basically where you are.
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So not only do they know where you are, but they can say, okay, on Fridays, you generally stop at this store on your way home.
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You get home around 5.26 p.m.
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And that's that gets a little bit scary.
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So I think this is a policy question.
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Like I said, I don't really think it's a Fourth Amendment violation, although the courts are gonna have to sort this out.
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But um uh I don't like the trade-off between uh privacy and the the amount of power that you're giving to the government.
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And Frank, I don't like the trade-off either.
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Although I've told my audience that, you know, a million years ago, I used to go on ride-alongs with the cops all the time.
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Now it's not the c when I got married, I said, Well, I'm not gonna do that much anymore because it generally meant you were, you know, uh you you went on the ride-along starting at about midnight and stayed out till three or four in the morning.
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And uh and they were always fascinating.
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But one of the one of the times I was on a ride-along, this officer I'd never ridden with before, he's looking at this sheet of paper and I said, What are you looking at?
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He says, It's the hot sheet.
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I said, What are you doing?
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He says, I'm kind of putting all those plates in my you know my mind.
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You know, I read over them a couple of times, and sure enough, that night we're driving down the road, and he f flips on the lights and siren and and pulls a 180 right in the middle of a street and and chases this car down.
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And it was one of the stolen cars in the hot sheet.
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So that's the low-tech version of it.
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That's okay to most people, but the high-tech version of it, which might track every stolen car or every hot car, uh that that that's the part that bothers people.
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How how are we I mean, are we really making a distinction where we're already doing this kind of activity?
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This is just a much more organized version of it?
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Yeah, so that's true, but I think the technology amplifies it so much that it's not just more of the same, it becomes a different thing, right?
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Like the cops can memorize plates and catch people off of that, that's great.
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But this system is so advanced and so complete that you know you've we've already seen it abused.
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You've seen some of the stories of your police officers who are you know tracking down their ex-wives and watching their every move.
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And that's that's creepy.
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Uh, but I think putting that aside, some of my libertarian friends might not like this, but I think if it was just your rank and style cops, you know, your city cops who had access to this and were the sole users of it, I might be more comfortable.
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Like my parents were both cops.
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I I tend to trust the police.
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Um, but when the same stuff is also available to all the alphabet intelligence agencies at the federal level, and not to mention hacking, right?
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If if US technology has it, how much can places like China get a hold of it?
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Uh I I think there are just a lot of implications beyond giving cops the
tools they need to solve crimes.
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I guess the other thing I wonder about is this.
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Not that I'm saying if if we're already giving it up somewhere else, we might as well give it up here.
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I'm not making that argument.
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But that phone I have in my pocket, I know that when I drive down the road, it's pinging off multiple towers and can probably triangulate where I am.
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So if somebody really wanted to know where I was all the time, they wouldn't just be able to track my license plate.
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They'd be able to track the electronic device that's almost always in my pocket everywhere I go.
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And so I wonder if people are getting all wound up about the cameras and forgetting that phone in your pocket, if somebody has the metadata, they know exactly where you went, what transactions you made, and everything else.
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Yeah, I think that's a very strong point, right?
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The obvious uh distinction is at least in theory, the phone is a choice, right?
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We're all addicted to our phone, so how much of a choice is it?
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But you can leave it home, you can choose not to get a smartphone.
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But I that being said, I think you're right that um people kind of overlook this.
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You know, I have friends who get super encrypted apps for their texting and all of this stuff, and I'm just thinking, listen, if you have one of these phones on a major carrier, every keystroke is safe somewhere.
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So I think you're right.
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I think we've forgotten how much of our freedom and our privacy we already give up by having these things in our pockets.
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Hey, Frank, before we go, tell my audience about J.D.
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Vance and the future of the Republican Party.
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Yeah, thank you, Lars.
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So I wrote this book earlier this year, and now it's getting more relevant than ever.
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Um the book is basically about two things.
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Who is JD Vance?
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I've analyzed pretty much everything he ever wrote, every major speech he gave, every piece of legislation he proposed, and uh tried to figure out who is this guy.
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And then, second of all, I wanted to relate that to what are the tensions in the Republican Party right now, right?
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What are the big divides?
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What are the real conversations, and how does Vance and his thought and his uh presence on the political scene fit into that?
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I wish you could I could give you examples in one minute, but there's really nothing like it on the market.
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This book is uh, I think really the best thing out there to understand who is J.D.
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Vance and also what is the fight for the post-Trump Republican Party going to look like?
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What are the fault lines?
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It's all in there.
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Boy, you know what?
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I I love what we're actually I love what we're headed up to because I think we're gonna have a wealth of candidates for president.
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And I love looking over at the Democrat Party thinking they've got a mostly empty bench, and the ones that are on the bench are some pretty sad sacks when it comes to, you know, Gavin Newsome and the like.
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That's Frank DeVito.
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Frank is an attorney, he's also the author of JD Vance and the Future of the Republican Party.
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