Actually, a lot of police cruisers these days have cameras that automatically read license plates and query various data systems to see if a hit of some sort pops up. DC cruisers definitely have them, two mounted externally on the rear quarter panels facing forward.
I don’t recall seeing them on MD state trooper cruisers, but I’ll pay attention for them the next time I head up 95. Which, given this article, may not be for a while.
The article (just an excerpt?) doesn’t reveal why the guy was tailed and pulled over. It only says that his wife was confused about the location of the gun. This may be, directly, a gun ownership/CCW issue, but it also raises very, very ugly questions about erosion of civil liberties.
Thanks, I’m sure that I’m a turn or two behind the technology curve. Your point on civil liberties is spot on. We now live in an age where the authorities believe that they have a right to detain and interrogate any person at any time for any reason and that right extends over the threshold of their home. All in the name of public safety.
“...Actually, a lot of police cruisers these days have cameras that automatically read license plates and query various data systems to see if a hit of some sort pops up. DC cruisers definitely have them, two mounted externally on the rear quarter panels facing forward....”
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Such technology is becoming less noticeable; similar to the smallness of very high quality GoPro cameras.
We in the states with Shall issue CHL/CCW need to pressure our state legislatures to block access from states without reciprocity. They have no need to know about a Florida permit if they wouldn’t recognize it anyway.
AshHats.