[$tinkle]

'bout time

License Plate Scanners Newest Tool For Police

Police in Colorado have a new tool that scans license plates to track down lawbreakers, and officers know immediately if a driver has a revoked license or if a car has been reported stolen.

The mobile plate reader helps officers nab criminals just by driving down the street. It gives police a high number of arrests of drivers who break the law.

Laser cameras with magnets are placed on top of patrol cars. The cameras can read up to 15 license plates each second. Once the plates are scanned, officers know instantly if a car has been reported stolen, if the plate is linked to a driver with a revoked license or if a warrant has been issued for a driver's arrest.

At $25,000 a piece, these license plate readers are not cheap, but officers in Aurora say their two systems have paid for themselves in the number of arrests they've made in just the past few months.

In addition to Aurora police, Denver police and the Colorado state patrol are using the license plate readers.​

hope we get them down here soon (1 hr south); every summer this town goes nutz

 

[$tinkle]

couldn't just let a good idea hang out there w/o this other new stupid policy (for balance, apparently):

ticket quotas for denver moto cops

just in time for hail season! dumbasses.

 

[stevew]

Having lived in Colorado, how can they not write 16 tickets in an 8 hour shift?

 

[dhbuilder]

damn good idea.

 

[bac]

Police in Colorado have a new tool that scans license plates to track down lawbreakers, and officers know immediately if a driver has a revoked license or if a car has been reported stolen.

The mobile plate reader helps officers nab criminals just by driving down the street. It gives police a high number of arrests of drivers who break the law.

Laser cameras with magnets are placed on top of patrol cars. The cameras can read up to 15 license plates each second. Once the plates are scanned, officers know instantly if a car has been reported stolen, if the plate is linked to a driver with a revoked license or if a warrant has been issued for a driver's arrest.

At $25,000 a piece, these license plate readers are not cheap, but officers in Aurora say their two systems have paid for themselves in the number of arrests they've made in just the past few months.

In addition to Aurora police, Denver police and the Colorado state patrol are using the license plate readers.[/indent]

hope we get them down here soon (1 hr south); every summer this town goes nutz

This isn't a privacy issue. It's just the use of technology to better serve. I don't see any problem at all.

... Brad

 

[bac]

couldn't just let a good idea hang out there w/o this other new stupid policy (for balance, apparently):

ticket quotas for denver moto cops

just in time for hail season! dumbasses.

Ticket quotas are made to increase the revenue of the locality at the expense of the law and the law abiding. It's a disgusting policy that shouldn't be legal.

... Brad

 

[manimal]

Ticket quotas are made to increase the revenue of the locality at the expense of the law and the law abiding. It's a disgusting policy that shouldn't be legal.

... Brad

it's not legal here in NC.


and stinkle.....i tested out one of those cameras here for a while...
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=171390&highlight=license+plate+reader
it didn't work too well. i had a lot of false hits on stolen cars because it runs certain characters as variables, ie: if the tag is TUV7355, it'll run variables of TWW, TVV, 73ss, 78ss....

it has some cool features like crime scene logging. if you have a serious crime you can drive it around a neighborhood and geolocate all the cars that were there immediatly after the crime. helps disprove alibi's, among other things.