The Detective’s Endowment Association is calling for legislation that will require cell phone companies to disable stolen phones and place them on a list that will stop them from being reactivated.
In a letter sent recently to several Congress members, Paul DiGiacomo, the new president of the detectives union, said that wireless service carriers and cell phone manufacturers are slow to cancel services to a stolen device and said that negligence is “driving the black market.”
Read more here from the NY Post.
