WSJ: Justice Dept. Tracking Millions of Vehicles

Fox News Insider ^ | Jan 27, 2015 5:18 PM

[Olog-hai]

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Justice Department has been building a database which tracks vehicles across the United States.

The license-plate tracking program reportedly reads plates and tracks cars on major highways across the U.S. The program’s high-tech cameras also reportedly take photos of drivers and passengers that are clear enough to identify people.

The database was started in 2008 by the DEA to monitor drug traffickers along the Mexican border. It has since expanded, with more and more law enforcement agencies using it for non-drug-related reasons.

Justice Department officials tells Fox News that the feds limit who can access the database. They say all license plate information is deleted after 90 days.

[Usagi_yo]

Yea, like nobody noticed the Cameras going up.

[rarestia]

But... but... but they’re to monitor traffic!

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Mastador1]

And they say they have no way to track the illegals.

[mongo141]

More B/S from the justus department.

[lightman]

And they do monitor...both meso and micro scale.

Half a truth

[MeganC]

“They say all license plate information is deleted after 90 days.”

Sure it is. I believe that because we all know the government never lies to us.

[SpeakerToAnimals]

The database was started in 2008 by the DEA to monitor drug traffickers along the Mexican border. It has since expanded, with more and more law enforcement agencies using it for non-drug-related reasons.

The war on drugs is pure evil.

[Lurker]

“The war on drugs is pure evil.”

Along with anyone who supports it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Now we know what those things are.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And yet we still are not allowed to see Obola’s Kenya birth certificate.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Now we know what those things are.
Time for some good old boys to switch from road signs to cameras...

[US_MilitaryRules]

I drive thru those things on the way to and from Glamis sand dunes. They are at the immigration check point. Ha Ha, 90 days. Yea sure.

[Oatka]

It has since expanded

The lifeblood of any bureaucracy.

[Charles Martel]

Just last week, I was stopped by a cop who just wanted to point out that my hitch ball was obscuring the license plate. No ticket, just a warning about an equipment violation. Which technically, it is. Never mind that trucks have had hitch balls mounted in line with the plates since the 1950s, if not longer.

[servantboy777]

The noose continues to tighten around the citizens of America. March toward the American police state.

Rutherford Institute
https://www.rutherford.org/

[OneWingedShark]

The noose continues to tighten around the citizens of America. March toward the American police state.

Aye — That it does; of the brochures I've made, I think two illustrate it particularly well:

Stop, Drop, and Cower [Direct Link]

The American Caste System [Direct Link]

The one on the left illustrates how the government regards you-as-a-person, the one on the right illustrates the why of the institutionalized injustices.

[sargon]

Justice Department officials tells Fox News that the feds limit who can access the database.

Well, that's reassuring. </sarc>