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ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates
dustman81 writes "The ACLU is objecting to the practice of police in Springdale, Ohio using an automated license-plate scanner on patrol cars to locate stolen vehicles or those whose owners are wanted on felony warrants. The scanner can read 900 license plates an hour traveling at highway speeds. So far, the scanner has located 95 stolen cars and helped locate 111 wanted felons. The locations of the license plates scanned are tagged with GPS data. All matches are stored (with no expiration date given) and can be brought up later and cross-referenced on a map. If the plate is wanted, the times and locations of where it was scanned can be referenced. The Springdale police department hopes to begin using the system soon to locate misdemeanor suspects. This system is also in use in British Columbia."
Fucking die you piece of shit.
Don't trust anyone under thirty.
The ACLU is pathetic. Aside from their outright hypocrisy on the Second Amendment, I'm in more danger from them and the constitutional rights they profess to protect, than anybody else. All things considered, I prefer less criminals on the streets, and crime being more dangerous to the criminal, than the victim. And how they deserve tax exempt status is beyond me completely.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
There is a difference between catching criminals and creating a database of the travel patterns of presumably innocent people.
My initial reaction was "that sounds neat" but by the time I got through even just the summary, it was obvious that creating a database of everyone's travel patterns is not the right way to run the system. Perhaps 10 years hence, you take a different route to work for whatever reason, later that night you get a knock on your door and then: "Sorry to bother you Mr. Jones but we see you deviated from your usual route. Care to explain?" 10 years after that, you have to file travel plans. "Papers please." Yeah, call me a nutter.
OK, nutter, have it your way.
There is also a difference between collecting data and mining it. Collecting data is easy. Extracting anything useful from it is hard. For starters, no one is going to give a shit how you get to work until it becomes relevant. Here's an example:
Lets say your wife goes missing. We know she made a call from home at 9:00am to her mother and left a crying message on your mom-in-law's machine on the day she went missing. Oh, and you were three hours late for work that day. The neighbors report yelling coming from the house the night before. You have just increased the life insurance policy for your wife. These would make you a prime suspect, possibly enough to convict you. However, if they check the data, they find that you entered the toll road at 8:30am the day your wife went missing. You changed to the freeway 45 minutes from your home at 9:25am. You are seen from your path and when you exited the freeway near the strip club that offers breakfast lapdances. You are seen exiting the freeway near your office at at 11:45am.
So while you were guilty of skipping half a day at work and hitting the strip club probably without your wife's knowledge, these things are not illegal and this system saved your ass by supporting your alibi.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Driving is NOT A RIGHT! It is a PRIVILEGE that is exerced on PUBLIC ROADS, in *FULL VIEW* of the public, including law enforcement drones. As such, there shall be no expectation of privacy whatsoever for anyone who operates a motor car on a public road. And the idea behind license plates is that they shall be visible to law-enforcement officials.
Oh, riiight, so they can just delete it when they're not supposed to have it anymore. *Smacks head* Why didn't I think of that?
Go back to stormfront, you racist shit.
People in a bank vault on friday aren't likely to be robbing the place because they're black. They're likely to be robbing it because they're in the fucking vault on Friday night.
I sincerely hope that all of your daughters are raped by white men, you racist shit.
The ACLU will protect criminals at all costs, they don't care that the cars are on public roads, and that police calling them in is no different. For quite some time the ACLU has moved away from protecting the rights of people to being a liberal shill.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Well no wonder people distrust the governemnt when crackpots like Regan, Bush and BabyBush are voted in...
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.