Posted: 10/17/2007 4:52:10 AM EDT
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I was in a mall parking lot yesterday when I saw a weird looking unmarked car cruising the lot. This car had two small cameras pointing forward at a 45 degree angle to the front. The car stopped in the middle of a row of cars and the LEO got out and checked a vehicle. I recognized the officer from having worked with him on a few cases several years ago. I walked up snd greeted him and we had a little talk. This unmarked car was a experimental unit that had license plate ID software. The car cruises between the rows of cars reads the plates and if any cars have warrents the officer can nail the owner or impound the car when it is identified. The software eventually will have city wide WiFi plugins to search auto insurance records and out of state PD records. That is plum scary. |
I agree. This isn't an intrusion of privacy at all. I would also prefer to have as few people on the streets with arrest warrants as possible. The only possible problem I have with it is if there's an increased potential for misreading the plates. |
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Get ready for RFID license plates. General Motors is already doing their best to get I have probably bought my last GM vehicle. 
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they are always watching now there are friggen cameras everywhere another question i have is why are the police so against civilians doing the same thing to them? its ok for them to record us in all manner of circumstances, via cruiser, traffic lights, street corners, construction barrels, etc... but a civilian having a camera in his car or on the sidewalk is a definite no no where police are "conducting official business". this whole mentality just reaks of jbt elitism and feeds the us vs them arguement even more. i will be moving out of the city as soon as financially possible. metro's are going to be big stinking socialist progressive shit heaps in the near future, w/ no signs of turning back the clock. might as well call it london-ization. |
yea im absolutley thrilled about the fact that on star allows the pigs to shut down cars now on a dime and a whim. and the fact that they wanna install them on all cars is even better. this for your safety shit is getting out of control. im sure that this system would never be abused, just like when the gov assured us warantless wiretaps were for the bad guys only...but the fbi got caught abusing that legislation 100,000 times over. |