Three simple instructions for how to leech those lesser-class taxpaying saps while simultaneously providing yourself ruling-class immunity and the illusion of equal protection:
1) Make it law to have everyone get a license plate for each vehicle. 2) Set up automated traffic enforcement, parking, and toll collection that uses plate information. 3) Create secret tags without records for the ruling class.
(Note, if you go through EZ Pass without a transponder, you are billed based on the plate.)
Just because this article only mentions use by police, what makes you think they're not used by legislators or "favored" gov employees?
What's missing in the article is who approves the plates and how the system is administered, i.e., is it an actual traceable process or is someone easily able to game the system?
The fact that this particular police department (Edmonston) can get them when they don't "need" them, proves the system is rigged.
You may think the intent is innocent, believing the purported reasoning of undercover safety.
However, there is one telling fact:
"...police departments do not maintain records for tickets that are not assigned..."
If this were an "honest" program, they would indeed have those records because, if you were an honest issuing authority, wouldn't you want to know who's abusing the system by racking up ATE and parking tickets, or running-tolls? Shouldn't those records be available for public inspection?
Of course you'd want to know! But, if you're a tyrant who wants to rape the public while walking through the raindrops yourself, you would have the system set up EXACTLY how it's set up now!
MD recently opened an EZPass Only toll road from Montgomery County to 95, which makes it oh so easy for those wealthier folks working for the gov in the Baltimore or Annapolis areas to get to work. Because the toll is pretty high, the traffic on that road is pretty light in comparison to the rest of the area.
I always suspected that the MD gov would set up "free" EZ Pass accounts for those "special" people, now I'm almost certain it's true.
I bet you democrat legislators get these type of tags automatically, while the repubs have to suck it up like the rest of us.
“... some are more equal than others.”
Okay, I may not be the brightest around, but answer me this: if someone tried to trace these plates, and got back nothing, wouldn’t that indicate that these were the “magic” plates, belonging to someone in government (i.e. law enforcement, etc.)? Wouldn’t that invalidate the stated reason to have these?
Geniuses all...
I have a family member who is LEO, and is often involved in sensitive task forces. I am thankful that his personal plates are not traceable, as he has already experienced two direct threats to his family because of his work. It isn’t so he doesn’t get tickets (he won’t get the ticket anyway), it is a matter of protecting his identity and his family.
So, basically, if the plate is untraceable, it belongs to a cop.
THAT oughta keep criminals from targeting cops.
if the plates are supposed to protect undercover cops... it’s a fail.
the criminal only needs to get back ‘not found’ to know the owner of the plate is a cop
“Confidential tags cannot be traced back to any specific person or organization if a criminal has a source run the plates through conventional databases.”
Assuming the details of this are true, then the criminal can be easily assured the plate belongs to a blackop when the trace turns up NOTHING. It’s like the fool criminals who thought they could dodge fingerprints by burning theirs off with acid, but merely created instantly recognizable scar patterns.
Ah, good to know next time I need to steal some license plates.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!