IF it were looking for the tag, tags have rarely been effective
Um... I would think that tags wouldn't be effective because it's a
tedious and boring job checking lots of cars for a small number with
a missing tag. Tedious and boring job = ineffective enforcement.
right, plus they are to easily duplicated and stolen and ..... up close they are
often clearly wrong.... somehow and plate holders can cover the smaller
lettering .... just to many ways that they dont work.
Now, if they're recording every license plate seen along with GPS
location and date/time, and hanging on to that to "assist in future
investigations", well, yeah, that's getting into big brother territory.
and what else do you think they do with the gps data, throw it away! your
kidding right. they know the public is too stupid to do anything about it
My what?
I dont follow the "My what?" line ???
I don't know /what/ data they are collecting.
Do they have a GPS and an
OCR system in place to read license plates in police vehicles?
answering out of order, but YES re watch the video, the picture is taken of the
car, then the software detects and decodes the plate and puts it into that
yellow box, the officer(assuming he is an officer) even points it out. in the
USA its not technically illegal for a plate to be dirty or bent or whatever
enough that a computer cant get the plate right, so while not shown in this
video, id have to guess that this guys software works like other's and allows
you to edit the decoded plate in the event that the plate it detected was
wrong/incomplete .... in this video the gps is only a guess but most are
equiped and it sure looks like gps data is right there below the picture of the
car
Are they
keeping all the time/location/license-plate information in a big
database somewhere?
Its not really a USA video and big brother isnt that orginized and I cant tell
you what they keep :D its typical of current law enforcement practices to break
down data into local areas... keeping only things that are important at the
time.so its not that big of a database when san diego keeps one, oceanside keeps
another .... the "hotlist" of cars by plate of uninsured drivers to a san diego
CHP may or maynot include a car owned by someone in say redding ca.
They *could* be, but paranoia is a poor substitute for data.
so search around.
your interaction with the police, and you can use that in your defence. and
even though i dont like the current attitude I do feel that we should
protect the officers out on the front line, mind washed as they are, that
camera protects them from the scum of the planet also.
Cameras on the police cars seem like a good idea all the way around...
but again, if it's running all the time, it's recording license-plates,
which was the original activity that resulted in accusations of big
brother behavior. . .
most dash cams in police crusers dont start recording until turned on, or ....
depends on agency, division, camera model ... and probibly a zillion other
things im forgetting.
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