[Scan-DC] License Plate Readers

[Jeff N]

There's a fixed LPR at the SW corner of  West VA Ave & Mt Olivet St NE, and another at NY Ave NW @ New Jersey Ave. 
I was in my company vehicle last year and was pulled over after I passed the fixed LPR on Benning RD. My vehicle was flagged as being stolen. The police officer just waited for me at Benning & H. After he saw that the vehicle wasn't stolen, he let me see his MDT. It showed a photo of my vehicle as I passed the LPR. 

DC has also installed LPR's on the street sweepers to automatically ticket vehicles parked on street cleaning days. 

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On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:14 PM, "Fourwd1" <fourwd1 at netzero.com> wrote:

> 
> The system compares tag numbers it captures to an on board data base that is updated daily. Then alerts the officer when there is match. 
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>> 
>> I'm curious about just how this all works. Is someone watching a monitor in
>> real time when alerted to a crime to see if a suspect vehicle passes
>> through an intersection? Or is the information just stored and searched
>> later to establish a time that a certain vehicle passed the camera? Plus,
>> how good are they? On one hand, we have the total fiction of TV, mainly CSI
>> shows and most Bellisario productions (NCIS et al), where someone types
>> rapidly on a keyboard while looking at a fuzzy picture of a car and they
>> are able to zoom in, enhance the image, and get a clear view of the license
>> plate -- all in an instant -- and then plug the number into the DMV and get
>> a full history on someone. On the other hand, it looks like the boot crews
>> on "Parking Wars" are using this technology to scan plates as they drive
>> around looking for ticket offenders -- with a pretty high rate of success
>> on the hits.
>> 
>> I'm also concerned about the "Big Brother" aspect of all of this, from the
>> government watching where people go and keeping track of that information.
>> Yeah, the system may catch the occasional criminal, but the information
>> could easily be used in other ways, from the government and businesses
>> tracking employees (some companies already track via a GPS in a company car
>> or truck) to an attorney getting the data to slam someone in a civil suit
>> or divorce ("you say you were at your office all day, yet this photo shows
>> your car passing through this intersection close to the No-Tell Motel. Were
>> you headed to a secret rendezvous with your mistress?"). The upside, if
>> there is one, was listed in the article, where the student researcher said
>> he could track where the police had traveled based on the camera data. This
>> could be used to show that someone is doing his job or is slacking off
>> based on travels on his beat.
>> 
>> Bruce in Blacksburg
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