I saw the story in today's newspaper, and heard something on the TV news last night as I walked by it. Apparently, someone was arrested on Wednesday at 5:15 p.m. for applying a rather high-tech way of being a voyeur on the subway.
The story is unfortunately not bylined, but the gist of it is that a 39 year-old medical professor and doctor was arrested by a transit officer who caught him using a pen camera hidden in a newspaper to photograph women, who, given the summer heat, were wearing skirts and perhaps no stockings, and were perhaps more vulnerable to this type voyeurism than they might be in the winter when there is nothing on the subway that doesn't say "North Face."
This says way more than the arrest of the perpetrator. It says that transit officers/police in general, must be trained in how to spot peeping Toms. I'm sure if I was within five feet of this perp and his female object it would not have occurred to me that the guy with a newspaper was secretly photographing women's legs, et al. The police surely receive special training to observe this on a rush hour train.
It was not disclosed how long the defendant might have been doing this, nor the hard drive capacity of the pen. Given the heat wave we've been having, the defendant might have missed work for a few days.
The best part might be what was too good to check, or what might be true. I only know what I read. The defendant was described as a urologist and an expect in robotics and minimally invasive surgery.
The belief is even a minimally competent lawyer might offer this in the defendant's defense.
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