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I think its bad to have the police capturing plates and locations. It would be better if private citizens with concerns could simply report plate numbers witho
by stretchwithme 12y ago
I think its bad to have the police capturing plates and locations. It would be better if private citizens with concerns could simply report plate numbers without location. If there is a plate associated with a crime, the police could respond by asking where it was seen and when, with no response the rest of the time.
- Gustomaximus 12y agoI have no problem with police scanning plates. It's quite efficient to spot people with warrants and cars out of registration etc. The problem is if they store details of everyone else. As long as they scan only for 'plates of interest' this actually seems like a useful tool to me.
- clarky07 12y agoAs noted in other place here and in the article, most of these technologies could be useful and good. Unfortunately they can also be easily abused, turning into very very bad. The question isn't whether there could be good, it's if the good outweighs the bad. And if it's close, it needs to be regulated and watched to be kept in check. I agree that the scanning could be helpful in many ways, helping find amber alerts, people with warrants, etc. It could also be very bad though, so we need to be careful.