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UK Police Expand License Plate Camera Systems
An anonymous reader writes "According to this article at the BBC British Police forces are widening their use of automatic License Plate recognition. One of the police officers involved says 'we can effectively deny criminals the use of the roads.' For those who don't know central London already has a network of number plate recognising camera systems to support the Congestion Charge system."
Well, the bad guy would probably work his
/. is no deterrence
was up to murder/attempted murder... So
any 'learning' offenses involving cars would
be detected by the system.
Also, there are few guns and even fewer shootings
in England.
Look, it's an intelligence system used to help
police in their work. It does not directly prevent
individual crimes. It might act as a deterrence.
But one thing is for sure. Your
for people shooting their mouths off.
It's getting to be where everyone's going to have to be on motorized bicycles and wearing a full hood and cloak in order to avoid automated recognition. I can just see it now, a world of jawas on two wheels.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Apparently some people believe 1984 was a training manual.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
My brother is an idiot most of the time but
I don't see the "but".
Please donate your spare CPU cycles to help fight cancer and other diseases
The system is implemented in .NET. Shouldn't be too difficult to change the administrator password.
Once they know what car you're driving you have to ditch it and jack another! It'll be soooo cool! All they need to do is set up some ramps so you can dive out at top speed and launch your car at buildings and cop cars.
copy paste stupid
Ah, voter intelligence tests. That's never been used for miserable, racist purposes before.
Imagine if everyone would get a ticket each time they exceeded the speed limit. Limits would have to be raised to reasonable levels nationwide, or people would riot in the streets.
...
For which they'd be ticketed
Especially with anything to do with safe driving!
That reminds me of a story of some enterprising youths somewhere here in Australia (so I'm sure it's an urban legend, but it's a funny story none the less).
A carload of guys see a cop with a speed camera sitting on the side of the road (well he's not, he's sitting in the car with the camera in front of it). They pull over and start asking him all of these questions about it. He's impressed that they're so interested: he gets out of the car, shows them how it all works, all the bells and whistles. After a while they thank him, and drive off.
During the rest of his stint there, the camera takes another 20 or 30 photos, but when they're all developed, it's the number plate of the police car who was controlling the camera. It wasn't until they asked the officer that they decided that while he was showing the camera off, one of the boys had gone to the back of the police car, took the number plate then stuck it on the back of their car before speeding past the camera for the rest of the afternoon.
I saw the lights go off when I was breaking the speed limit between Reading and Oxford on the A-423.
I continued to break the law, and see the flashbulbs, for the two weeks I spent in the Home Counties.
I'll be back after the warrants run. Thanks for all the beer.
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