All the stars out there appear to be aligning for Libertarians, don’t they?
If the cameras only saved the info on plates where there was a “hit” then it would still serve the legitimate police needs without infringing on the innocent.
The license plate info is being stored, creating huge databases of motorists and where they travel — even though more than 99% of those recorded are innocent.
They drive thru parking lots like at Cabalas and Bass Pro Shop or Churches looking for the bitter clingers ?
By the same logic, if they did house-to-house no-knock searches in pretty much any inner city high crime area, they'd get criminals off the street as well. Likely a lot more than 47 per million, too.
Sometimes, 47 criminals must go free to save the one million innocent people from living in a police state.
From what I’ve heard, here in Maine, there is a state law requiring police to destroy these records after 30 days.
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They aren’t innocent. We just haven’t found out what kind of crimes they have committed -— yet. (/s)