Depending on where you live, your garbage man probably comes by your home once or twice each week or so. While you are inside sleeping, showering, or eating breakfast, your garbage man is out by the curb handling your trash. What you may not know is that your garbage man may be spying on you.
A program know as Waste Watch trains garbage men how to observe suspicious behavior on their routes and report this behavior. Authorities can then investigate the reports and see if a crime is about to be committed.
Sure, Waste Watch sounds like a practical enhancement to law enforcement, but having civilians actively spy on other civilians is a scary proposition. Do you really want the man who visits your home early in the morning and has access to virtually every discarded document, container, item etc. that leaves your residence to be reporting things about you and your property to the government? Think, for a moment, about all of the things you throw out. When you throw them out, do you intend for them to just go away, or do you anticipate they could possibly scrutinized by someone?
When the garbage man is observing your residence from the curb, what sort of things might he be noticing? If you have some bags of fertilizer stacked on the side of your house, will he report that you could be making bombs? If your friend parked a car in front of your house and the garbage man notices some political bumper stickers on the vehicle, will he report a potential radical? What if he notices you are discarding some boxes for high-end electronics, will you be reported as a thief?
Keep in mind that, if your garbage man is spying on you, he will be at your residence once or twice per week looking at your property and everything you discard. Do not do anything suspicious within view of the garbage man. You just might find yourself under investigation.
Civilian spying was one of the most effective tools of the Nazis. It is really becoming fashionable in America these days.
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