begin quoting Richard Reynolds as of Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:56:05PM -0700: [attribution deleted by previouus poster] > >>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
Um... duplicated, maybe. Stolen, not so easily, especially when you do the razor-blade thing. I don't think that too many people have the facilities to do a decent job of duplicating 'em anyway... it's doubtful that your average printer would accept such a job, and the payoff for forging 'em just isn't worth the effort. (Well, maybe for car-thieves, but they can swap a plate just as easily -- how often do we check our license plates?) > they are often clearly wrong.... somehow and plate holders can cover the > smaller lettering .... just to many ways that they dont work. I've seen very few plate holders that cover 'em, and the ones that are clearly wrong need to result in a policeman pulling over the driver and ticketing them. > >>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 ??? Ah, I see, you eschew apostrophes. It means that you sometimes don't write with you actually mean. > >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 Youtube sucks. Give me a straight mpeg file for video, please. And no Javascript (especially for something as basic as Youtube). > 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 Ah. Okay. Thanks for the summary. > >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. Well, the CHP incident website includes temecula in the San Diego list, so the regions aren't THAT fine-grained, I suspect. > >They *could* be, but paranoia is a poor substitute for data. > so search around. If I can't find the data I'm looking for, I should keep digging until I find it? Did you *read* what I wrote about paranoia? :-P > >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. When we get 1TB 2.5" drives, that might well change. . . -- The march of technology has many side effects. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
