RaverMadness
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This isn't paranoia - police have been watching the building in the past as far back as 2000, going as far as to rent rooms across the street and have stakeouts in vans. See, back then a friend of mine had a problem with his friends bringing people over to his house that happened to be reported as runaway teenagers. He wasn't aware that these people were runaways, and now he's much more careful about who he lets stay at his apartment.
More of my friends live next door - now, I know for a fact that no one's doing anything seriously illegal other than a slight problem with underage drinking and some unknown person who "borrows" CDs and cigarettes that have been left out in the open. It's likely one or two people have pot on them, but no one is sitting around the place getting high.
I have half a mind to think that the police consider my friends a street gang - since the summer started, there have been police driving past the place at least every two hours, just due to the fact that people like to come outside to chill - it's a cramped, old apartment building with no air conditioning - it's much cooler outside. Any trash left behind gets picked up, and the noise is pretty minimal seeing as how it's on the corner of two major streets. The real problem is on Friday and Saturday nights, people other than my friends will park their cars at the fast food place next door, blasting music, trashing the parking lot, and taking parking spaces at the apartments. They've had the cops called on us for hurling "racial epithets" at them - the cops told us this with a straight face with a black friend of mine standing with us. We're about as anti-racist as you're going to get.
But yeah, they're convinced we're all neo-nazi drug dealers who like to harbor runaways. Or something.
Point is - whenever you answer the phone, or call someone from that line, there's that little "click-click-click". A friend of mine told me that he heard someone say, "yeah, it's recording" before being connected. I'm not exactly sure how wiretaps work or how constitutional they are (I'll bet they can haul out the "fighting terrorism" excuse on this one). My question is: is there a definite way you can find out if your phone is tapped? If so, could you get an answer as to why from the police or whoever's doing it? It's not like we're career criminals here.
( - and yes, in the meantime, we're making sure no one mentions anything STUPID on the phone. I'm sure someone asking me for "a ride to work" is supposed to mean I'm supposed to deliver another kilo of hash, in their eyes.)
Any help/advice/etc. would be just great.
More of my friends live next door - now, I know for a fact that no one's doing anything seriously illegal other than a slight problem with underage drinking and some unknown person who "borrows" CDs and cigarettes that have been left out in the open. It's likely one or two people have pot on them, but no one is sitting around the place getting high.
I have half a mind to think that the police consider my friends a street gang - since the summer started, there have been police driving past the place at least every two hours, just due to the fact that people like to come outside to chill - it's a cramped, old apartment building with no air conditioning - it's much cooler outside. Any trash left behind gets picked up, and the noise is pretty minimal seeing as how it's on the corner of two major streets. The real problem is on Friday and Saturday nights, people other than my friends will park their cars at the fast food place next door, blasting music, trashing the parking lot, and taking parking spaces at the apartments. They've had the cops called on us for hurling "racial epithets" at them - the cops told us this with a straight face with a black friend of mine standing with us. We're about as anti-racist as you're going to get.
But yeah, they're convinced we're all neo-nazi drug dealers who like to harbor runaways. Or something.
Point is - whenever you answer the phone, or call someone from that line, there's that little "click-click-click". A friend of mine told me that he heard someone say, "yeah, it's recording" before being connected. I'm not exactly sure how wiretaps work or how constitutional they are (I'll bet they can haul out the "fighting terrorism" excuse on this one). My question is: is there a definite way you can find out if your phone is tapped? If so, could you get an answer as to why from the police or whoever's doing it? It's not like we're career criminals here.
( - and yes, in the meantime, we're making sure no one mentions anything STUPID on the phone. I'm sure someone asking me for "a ride to work" is supposed to mean I'm supposed to deliver another kilo of hash, in their eyes.)
Any help/advice/etc. would be just great.
