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Automated license scanners make the story more plausible; the officer could have received an automated alert on his in-car laptop.
by Spoom 13y ago
Automated license scanners make the story more plausible; the officer could have received an automated alert on his in-car laptop.
- rdl 13y agoYes, I just don't see how an automated license plate scanner would get confused by a similar name -- I assume those have access to DMV database, so it would pull up 5DES800 and see it's registered to Marcus Walters of 1 Crypto Way who has 5 open warrants for overthrowing the state; it wouldn't say "this is a car registered to Marcus Walter" which the officer would then confuse with the open warrant for Marcus WalterS. I suppose it's possible the ALPS could be configured to just ID every single car, and the officer had in his mind (or using another system) the name of a specific suspect who he matched (erroneously) to the ALPS results of the victim here.