Adams County gets new toy in their patrol cars

[jfab]

9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | Police unveil 'phenomenal' new crime-fighting tool

 

[OsloViking1975]

Yep those do help them a lot. I know in Wayne County in Michigan they got theirs a around March and April for their police cars.

 

[firescannerbob]

Pueblo PD has had them for about a year, and I believe that Colorado Springs and EPSO are getting them soon if they don't have them already/

 

[jimmnn]

And Aurora for over a year also, you see them frequently out there.

Jim<

 

[poltergeisty]

It's a great system, but wow! Welcome to the future! I mean you almost can't do anything these days without some technology evaluating your existence and whether you are the minority report . :lol: Next up - small UAVs that scan your retina. (For a great flick this "Independence Day", watch Demolition Man lol)

Edit- Ahh! Reading this thread a link shows this: Automatic number plate recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Peter_K2XM]

One of the towns in the Greater Portland, Maine area has them in their cruisers. The ACLU chimed in that it was an invasion of citizens privacy and that the officers might use the information obtained for the wrong reasons.

 

[lmriggs]

By their very nature, license plates are public -- they are designed that way. ACLU is wrong!!

Good technology! Good purpose! Good results! Good thing!

 

[dracer777]

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Agreed. I want one of these in my car.

 

[poltergeisty]

:lol:

 

[firescannerbob]

By their very nature, license plates are public -- they are designed that way. ACLU is wrong!!

Good technology! Good purpose! Good results! Good thing!

Well, it depends. While I don't believe this technology is an invasion of privacy (based on it's use), in Colorado a non-LEO cannot go to DMV and demand to know who a car is registered to.

 

[n0doz]

Not for free, at least. You supposedly can get the registration for $2.00.

 

[kc0kp]

Not for free, at least. You supposedly can get the registration for $2.00.

Yes and a form spelling out why you want it. Before 9/11, you just needed the $2. Heaven help you if you get a listing on a plate that files a stalking report or disappears or something. That form will be a map to your door.

 

[firescannerbob]

Not for free, at least. You supposedly can get the registration for $2.00.

Yeah, I think that's not so. The idea was to keep wife beaters from stalking their victims, idiots on the highway from taking their road rage to the next level, etc Law was passed a few years ago.

 

[n0doz]

OK. Glad something positive can come from the legislature once in a while.
By the way, greetings from Cabo.