- The Baltimore Police Department has used secretive cellphone surveillance equipment 4,300 times and believes it is under orders by the U.S. government to withhold evidence from criminal trials and ignore subpoenas in cases where the device is used http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c0d3a62a41374ea289b93c600a3acfb8/baltimore-police-often-surveil-cellphones-amid-us-secrecy 13 comments politics