Posted on 04/24/2014 6:33:33 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Onondaga County has 5.2 million records showing where drivers have been over the past year. But if you'd like to know what the county has on your travels, you're out of luck.
Police cars throughout the county are outfitted with special cameras -- license plate readers -- that take hundreds of pictures of license plates a minute. Those records, showing the plate and where it was photographed, are warehoused in the county's database and held for a year.
Onondaga County denied a Freedom of Information Law request from me for all records they had on my license plate.
The reason: Turning over those records would "reveal criminal investigative procedures and techniques."
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New York earlier this month announced it would dole out $550,270 for police departments across the state to purchase 27 more license plate readers.
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
A women I work with (upstate NY) was pulled over a month ago for “having a dirty license plate”. She was like: “Have you ever heard of such a thing...???”
Now we know.
I wonder what would happen to any of us if we suddenly got off the grid. That would probably be a huge red flag to big brother.
I have a car that I bought new in 1996. I recently renewed the Texas tags and they sent me new plates. I wonder what’s on those things.
One of the problems is there are too many people who blame one party or the other. It’s EVERYONE from BOTH parties.
I find it fascinating that this was predicted in the Bible 2000 years ago.
See my post #42.
bkmk
The squiggly lines separating the characters are to segment for the vision system so the software can capture, segment and process the plate.
The enhanced reflectivity of the plate allows them to read your plate up to 110 mph. That is, your auto traveling at a certain speed toward the officer's vehicle also traveling a certain speed. They can also read your plate in the dark of night with very little ambient light.
Officers now run through parking lots of shopping centers reading hundreds of plates looking for stolen autos, expired registration/vehicle inspection and lapsed insurance. Everything is tied to your plate. Even concealed handgun lic.
Here in Harris co., they've mounted multiple readers on patrol cars...looks retarded, but they can cruise down the road and read hundreds of plates in any direction...all at once and process in seconds. An alarm sounds when a plate with an issue is processed.
Soon in Texas, already deployed in yankee states, these readers along roadways, highway overpasses. They will track your comings and your goings. Leave town for the weekend, they'll know when you've left and when you arrive back in town as well as your destination.
Serious breach of public trust, serious breach of privacy...and no one saw it coming. No one voted for it, no one was informed. They just did all this for the sake of safety.
“One of the problems is there are too many people who blame one party or the other. It’s EVERYONE from BOTH parties.”
We’ve been conditioned by the media and politicians to condition average Americans to fight with each other, while the crony capitalists on both sides plunder us and the authoritarians spy and monitor us.
Mount cameras on your cars and around your homes. There are free software and cheap equipment for that. Such things are best suited to your personal security than to increasing intimidation, taxes/fees and suppression of economic activity.
Private license plate cameras are great for rural residents, too. They can even be shared and are great for trespassing cases.
I didn’t respond until I had a chance to look at the plate. And the two squiggly lines are there. You state the plates will alert the cops if the “car” has an issue. I truly believe one “issue” the car might have if it’s owner posts on conservative websites. If the cop is alerted that the “car” has a problem, he starts looking for a reason to stop the car and question the inhabitant.
ping for that app!
This looks like it might do the trick... or maybe some minor modification of it.
Apparently this program was created and is largely funded by the feds, probably DHS. No doubt Syracuse forwards all their data to the feds who rely on willing local agencies in order to create a national data base.
It’s amazing to me people don’t see it.
Very little of the snooping and data gathering is for actual law enforcement.
It’s to be used for controlling the populace by leveraging the data gathered.
In the not too distant future only those approved by the database owners will be fit for office. They’ll have something on EVERYBODY.
bmfl
As computer plate reading got better and better, this was to be expected.
It’s been used for years at toll plazas.
The algorithms are not perfect. If a “texty” vehicle (like a U-haul with its advertising signage) gets into the sight of the cameras, they can be distracted from the actual plate.
Some states are still single plate. You can be caught going but not coming. Tennessee, for instance.
Sorry, don't mean to call you out...but you do not understand today's vision capture technologies.
They are NOT susceptible to anything surrounding the plate. These systems work in conjunction with enhanced reflectivity/emissivity of the plate itself. The readers/processors can capture, process and alert officers within a fraction of a second, reading hundreds of plates per hour at high speeds, little ambient light.
Very advanced. The only way to defeat the system is to alter the plate in some way...many ways to accomplish this, but most are illegal.
The folks who make toll booth plate readers would salivate for this. Why are they goofing around with character recognition?
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