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LAPD Regularly Pulled over Innocent People Plate Readers Flagged Cars as Stolen
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- gnabgib 3mo agoBetter to ask the mods to fix the original submission, surely
- Jimmc414 3mo agoThere's no on-topic discussion there. It was posted an hour ago with a truncated link, discovered after the edit/delete window had passed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900001
- gnabgib 3mo agoThere's no edit window for a URL mistake.. just contacting the mods. Which one of the on-topic comments provides on your first submission.
- Jimmc414 3mo ago> Which one of the on-topic comments provides on your first submission. I take it you are referring to your comment that the URL mistake was somehow intentional. It was not. I generally take the approach of pinging the mods as little as possible.
- gnabgib 3mo agoNot at all, this was the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900359 And my comment didn't suggest it was intentional ?!
- AngryData 3mo agoOf course they did. US cops aren't paid for stopping crime, they are paid by finding profitable crimes to charge people with, largely being drug crime since they are the easiest cases with hefty fines and fees and programs they can be charged with. And since cops can't legally pull people over by random to do it, they find any and every excuse to pull people over. Cops want their excuses to be flimsy so they can extort the maximum amount of people with the least amount of effort, and no matter how flimsy the excuse that is enough to protect them from any and all liability.
- genxy 3mo agoProtip, if you car gets stolen and recovered, get new plates.