Saw an unmarked LEO car in Somers Point ,NJ last week with the license scanners. Couldn’t believe it!WTH does a local PD need this for ?
Taken in 2009 in Charlotte Court House VA. Local cop with plate scanning system on Crown Vic.
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The new toll roads here in NC use plate readers to bill you if you don’t have a transponder. There are no toll booths.
“Saw an unmarked LEO car in Somers Point ,NJ last week with the license scanners. Couldn’t believe it!WTH does a local PD need this for ?”
The county sheriff cars use these where I live and it is mostly rural.
The local paper had an article about these things a year or two ago. The Sheriff said that the unit is pre-programmed at the start of each shift with all of the wanted plates as well as all expired registrations, plates reported as having no insurance or any other reason they have to flag them as wanted. When the cop is driving around this thing scans every plate on every car it passes and sounds an alarm if it reads one of the aforementioned plates.
Of course Barney denied that a database of plates/locations/times was being compiled.
