Even without automatic license plate readers, the police can have all the information they need about that license number within mere seconds of putting it into their computer.
That cheezy little tag, less than one square inch, was so hard to see, the cop would have to have you pulled over for it to have been any value.
If you have been pulled over, they don't need that tag.
All the stickers do is let them actively troll for people who forgot to send in their renewal.
I work on the Navy base in Norfolk, VA. VA has you put a year and month sticker on you license plates (2 plates). One morning I got turned away from the gate because the guard mistook MAY sticker for MAR and told me my tags were expired.
And state safety inspections! Who is getting rich from that boondoggle? You can’t do it by appointment, and last February I dropped my truck off on Friday and they didn’t get to it until Sunday. It’s insane what one has to go through to get inspected.