There's an episode on the TV show Elementary, where an Uber type company employee was using a tracking device to see where riders were going so as to blackmail

There's an episode on the TV show Elementary, where an Uber type company employee was using a tracking device to see where riders were going so as to blackmail them if any stops seemed sketchy. Do police officers ever let their lives get out of control and get into financial straights? We think of public surveillance as a sort of crime prevention, and in a certain ways it is. However, the possible abuse of it is mind boggling.