Does It Really Take 60 Seconds to Trace a Phone Call?
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You've seen it on your favorite cop show: To trace a call, the detective has to keep the perp on the phone for a full minute. Is this accurate in the real world?

Trope: Police have to keep bad guy talking on the phone long enough to trace them and find their location. Professional bad guys hang up right before it triangulates their coordinates.

Apparently, Hollywood’s been getting this inspiration from a pre-digital age when they use this trope in movies. See link for more info. It’s just funny that most of the “tracing the call” scenes I’ve seen are definitely after the 2000’s.

Another link: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/10/how-hard-would-it-be-to-trace-the-sniper-s-phone-calls.html

A fun gif: https://i.gifer.com/9QtC.mp4

  • darkpanda@lemmy.caEnglish
    161·
    1 天前

    They don’t even need that anymore either, ‘cause they can just use the chips and magnetofluids they’ve injected into everyone via vaccines. So outdated.