police cameras scan license plate- can tell if owner has a warrant

[michreject]

http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/07/29/news/doc4e31b3fb270f4639289571.txt

High-tech police cameras scan license plate, spot wanted Macomb woman

By Gordon Wilczynski
Macomb Daily Staff Writer

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A 33-year-old Macomb County woman is in jail today on a kidnapping charge after a police car equipped with a license plate reader alerted an officer that something was wrong when her vehicle passed him on Metropolitan Parkway in Clinton Township...........

............The license plate reader cameras are attached to the trunk of the scout car, said Clinton Township police Capt. Joseph Mertes. The high-tech reader has four cameras that scan in all directions and detect license plate numbers from nearby vehicles. The cameras transmit the information to the computer system and if the device determines a warrant is outstanding for the owner of the license plate attached to the car, it makes a sound alerting the officer.

DAYUM. There's no place to hide anymore.

This device is gonna quadrupole their revenue.

[Historic NY]

1. ALPR's they been out for years.......its not new.

and they do exactly what an individual officer could do only faster. Has nothing to do with revenue unless your driving with a suspended license or registration or no insurance.


http://www.elsag.com/index.asp

[grasswire]

2. Lesson: never drive your own car if you have a warrant.

Although I suspect that many wanted people have already figured out that even driving with an outstanding warrant is a huge risk. That's how most people get picked up, isn't it? A routine traffic stop?

[michreject]

6. A routine traffic stop

means you did something to give them a reason to pull you over.

This camera on the other hand, checks you out when you are not breaking any laws.

[Historic NY]

8. I'd call Driving a stolen car a lawbreaker.

[michreject]

11. Who mentioned a stolen car?

I didn't.

[Historic NY]

13. Thats what it scans for mostly and was designed for initially.

it runs thousands a plates a second.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Probable cause is not required for the police to run the car's plates

This makes it much faster to run many more only. Parking patrols do the same thing while searching for cars with overdue fines to boot.

[HopeHoops]

3. That's it. I'm inventing a device that projects an interference pattern onto the license plate.

You can set the pattern to anything you want - say, like, Governor Corbett's limo's plate. :evilgrin:

[charlie and algernon]

4. well that would explain what I saw last month

I was at a stop light with a couple cars in front of me and a cop car next to me in the left lane. The light turns green and the car directly in front of me turns into a shopping center. The cop then suddenly does a hard right, cutting me off, turns on his lights and chases the car into the parking lot. There obviously wasn't enought time to get him for speeding as the car just crossed the intersection before turning. The cop either manually ran his plates while sitting at the light or those cameras gave him a warning.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. Or the cop had been following the car for some time.

And had already ran the car's plates. It's the oldest and dumbest trick in the book, to turn right when you think a cop is following you, and you're wanted or just got caught doing something wrong.

[GodlessBiker]

5. I have no problem with this. I believe it would give probable cause to stop the car ...

if the registered owner has an outstanding warrant. Needless to say, the driver may not be the registered owner and, if this is the case, unless there is independent information that the car was used in the alleged crime connected to the warrant, seizure of the car would not be justified.

[michreject]

9. Might be a little late

Let's say you are using your spouses car and just burned one. They forgot to pay the fine for a parking ticket.

[lunatica]

10. As long as they don't surveille us it's OK

:sarcasm:

[Fla Dem]

14. Parking Wars...They have one reads licenses for outstanding tickets. n/t