What this article doesn't mention is that this data isn't only for cops, anyone should be able to see license plate records. Milage may vary, but since this is

What this article doesn't mention is that this data isn't only for cops, anyone should be able to see license plate records. Milage may vary, but since this is government data, something along the lines of a FOIA request should get you huge files with license plates, coordinates, and times. Some police departments may be more stubborn, but under current laws this data should pretty much be public. For example here's data from Minneapolis (with anonymized license plates): https://github.com/johnschrom/Minneapolis-ALPR-Data https://github.com/johnschrom/Minneapolis-ALPR-Data Privacy concerns aside, there's definitely something really cool about so much data.