There are more and more license plate readers on police cars. Hard to imagine that little colored stickers are needed.
“There are more and more license plate readers on police cars. Hard to imagine that little colored stickers are needed.”
My first thought too...they know more about you in 1 minute of following than your wife of 20 years knows about you. This guy, like most Republicans, is still living 50 years in the past. He probably also thinks that Hispanics come here, they work and make money, and then they simply go home. In other words, they don’t stay, and they don’t have children...in his little world.
Plate reader in cop car reads the license, sends a query to state server. Response comes back with whether the car has current registration, insurance, and inspection, and whether owner (or anyone at owner's address) has any outstanding warrants and whether owner has CCW.
And all this happens with every plate the cop car passes, with the plate reader giving a "ding" if there's a justifiable reason to pull the car over.
And since the judgement is made by software, the cops are less vulnerable to charges of being racist and only pulling over drivers-of-color.
While the state police officer assigned to her case was nice and polite (and had her make several trips to the local police barracks to go through mug books before they closed the case), the point was clear:
PA State Police were too busy to respond quickly to crimes which were unlikely to produce revenue for the state. However, they have plenty of time to pull people over on minor traffic violations which produce fine revenue.
It’s a population control device.
Owning a car in Pennsylvania is the hardest thing to do. Registration costs, their ridiculous registration notaries, and their own private fees - it’s outrageous.
You buy a used car in PA and it will cost you $600+ just to register the stinking thing. It makes poor people worse off because they can’t ever get to work.
Plates are in back, sticker’s in front.