Do they work? 4,537 arrest, with a sad 678 convictions just last year, a whopping 14.9 percent!
How much does it cost everytime a wiretap is issued? $52,200, it's $62,522 at the federal level.
What types of devices were targeted? Things like standard phones, cell phones, microphones (oral/eavesdrop), digital pagers, faxes, and of course, computers.
What gets me is that majority of the offenses these wiretaps were authorized for, were because of narcotics. 2,376 court authorized intercepts were granted , from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009, 2,074 of those wiretaps were in the category of narcotics.
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