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Week of action planned against license plate readers (spectrumlocalnews.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

my town got them but every thing flagged by the system has to be reviewed by a peace officer who officially gives the ticket and signs off that a violation actually occured.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Guess how that's going to play out. The machine flags someone for review, the cop hits accept without looking into it, now an innocent is being swatted.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    it has played out and that does not seem to be the case. the town itself is good about not trying to make the police a profit center. A cop doing this would likely face discipline or being let go from community feedback.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Are you mentioning this implying that's sufficient oversight? The alert is minimally providing reasonable suspicion to track and investigate someone. Police don't need to ticket or bring charges to ruin your day.

    If everything "checks out" as a misflag hopefully they cut that person loose quickly, without issue. Unfortunately, there's too many videos of innocent people being felony stopped, because cops defer to the lead and treat the situation as they're trained.

    Oorr people go running for unrelated reasons except they drew today's lucky number for a stop, leading to incidents.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    these are camera systems so the person is not there ot detain or let loose. Im don't think you quite get the situation. its the way the town does red light cameras. so the system flags someone runs a red. a peace officer reviews the video of the incident and decides if they get a violation for running a red or if they were in the left and had to wait for traffic or such.

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