[Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS

[Joel Kahn]

I wish Alan would stop making this stuff up just to scare us!

I watched them put in the "portable" speed camera on Cedar Lane
(both directions near Stone Ridge school entrance) just before
Rockville Pike.  4 metal squares stacked on top of each other.
Figured out what it was the next morning when the little black
window on the top box "flashed" at me as I went by at 35mph!
Lucky they were in the test mode and I never got any mail.
Took almost 2 weeks until they had it calibrated correctly and
painted the reference line on the street. Now its there about 4
days a week. I guess they remove it to dump the memory &/or
charge the batteries once a week (usually Tuesday or Wednesday).

Joel 

 

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[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Clegg,
Andrew W.
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:56 PM
To: Doug Kitchener; Alan Henney; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
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RFID


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug
Kitchener
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:55 PM
To: Alan Henney; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS


Damn, I didn't know "they" had fixed scanners - thought they were
all mobile.

*Red light cameras
*Speed Cameras
*License Plate Cameras
*Electronic Toll Collection
*TV surveillance in malls and at bus stops
*Laser speed enforcement
*Global Positioning that's accurate to about three feet
*Telescreens on and blasting in public areas
*Commercials in the "background" "music" in stores
*Metro "spot checks"
*DNA evidence
*Full body scans
*No Such Agency

Ain't it a wonderful world we live in?

Circa "1984" - My conscience is clear, but tell me Big Brother
isn't watching / listening.

The Land of the Monitored and the Home of the Watched.  :(

Denizen, Airstrip One, Oceania



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> From: alan at henney.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:20:43 -0500
> Subject: [Scan-DC] LICENSE PLATE READERS
>
>
> The Baltimore Sun
>
> December 27, 2010 Monday
>
> LICENSE PLATE READERS PUT EYES ON ROADS, STIR PRIVACY CONCERNS;
THE CAMERAS, NOW IN USE IN EVERY U.S. STATE, SCAN ALL TAGS AND
RUN THEM THROUGH CRIME DATABASES. SOME FEAR IT'S AN EASY WAY TO
KEEP TABS ON THE INNOCENT AS WELL AS THE GUILTY.

>
> WASHINGTON -- Just after midnight on Oct. 26, the stolen Jeep
Cherokee of a university professor who was found slain the
previous morning passed a camera mounted on a pole. It took the
automatic camera less than a second to scan and process the
license plate number, discover it in a database and send out an
alert to police cruisers.
>
> A detective spotted the vehicle and gave chase, leading to the
arrest near downtown Washington of the 18-year-old driver, who is
being held in nearby Montgomery County, Md., on auto theft
charges and is considered "a person of interest" in the homicide,
police said.

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