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Local Latinos embrace technology to track police roadblocks
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Latino immigrants have embraced new Spanish-language mobile technologies, including the crowdsourced mobile application paselavoz.net, that track police roadblocks in an effort to limit interaction with law enforcement. Some apps allow users to place pins on a Google map at the site of a known checkpoint for others to know where roadblocks exist. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Latino immigrants have embraced new Spanish-language mobile technologies that track police roadblocks in an effort to limit interaction with law enforcement. “They have messages in English and in Spanish,” Alejandro Ramirez, a local activist, said of one popular tool. “This will allow them to know exactly when and where the checkpoints are taking place.”