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[quote=Anonymous][quote] It’s natural to be slightly nervous when a police car pulls up alongside you in traffic, and even more natural to feel relieved when it drives away. But with a tool being used by the Metropolitan Police Department, an officer doesn’t even need to look you up to see if you’ve done anything wrong — a little camera mounted on the back of their cruiser will do it for them.

D.C. police are aggressively using small cameras to scan hundreds of millions of license plates annually, storing the images in a database for two years even if the driver is not suspected of having committed any crimes.

Hailed by police officials as an invaluable tool in fighting everything from auto theft to terrorism, the growing use of the cameras — known as Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) — has provoked concern among civil libertarians, who say that they come perilously close to a massive surveillance program.[/quote]

https://wamu.org/story/13/12/10/license_to_track_dc_police_cameras_capturing_millions_of_license_plate_numbers/#

From 2013.

Now these same LPR’s are everywhere including parking enforcement and traffic cameras.

Also stolen tags are a thing because people use them to avoid tickets.

And it is not new or limited to the city.

[quote] [b]INDIAN LAND, SC [/b](WBTV) - Last month there were two car break-ins reported to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office that happened in the parking lot of Lowe’s in Indian Land. In one of those cases, all that was taken was the victim’s license plate.

Sheriff’s deputies say it’s surprisingly not uncommon for tags to be stolen.

[b]“The public would be amazed at how many tags on the backs of automobiles, don’t match those automobiles,” Pubic Information Officer Doug Barfield said. “It’s much more prevalent than people might think.[/b]”[/quote]

https://www.wbtv.com/2019/04/26/law-enforcement-warns-thieves-out-your-license-plate/[/quote]

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