Posted on 03/31/2010 10:28:28 AM PDT by Puppage
I don't think they need probable cause to run a license plate. They're on the outside of the vehicle for that very reason. It's not like they're actually pulling you over. THEN, they require probable cause.
Having said that, I know where you're coming from.
Criminal activity like "deadbeat dads", the excuse they use to require my socialist security number when I apply to renew my driver's license even though I am unmarried with no kids.
I understand what your concerns are but, an officer can run your tags any time he wants to. In fact, he will run your tags before he even pulls you over......every time.
With the seats in the back!
Of course Eric Holder's injustice department would declare that "harassment" and "intimidation" of voters.
Those seats in the back with the ski-pole like handles look suspicious..enough.
Yeah. It’s also old. Really old in today’s terms. And it’s small. And it’s noisy. And it “.. looks like an illegal car”. In other words, it’s a small pickup truck, which is a favored runabout by the poor who don’t always have insured or registered cars.
Profiling, in other words. And I’m ok with it, I guess. But now if this car or this technology is near me, it will at least show the paperwork without them having to pull me over and ask, all the while making out some ridiculous reason for pulling me over just to check my papers.
Police can program the system to look for specific plates -- think Amber Alerts or vehicle descriptions from crime scenes.
Even PARTIAL MATCHES can be used to stop you.
It's akin to getting all DNA on file and then just running evidence through it to determine who are suspects.
Time was you made a case and proved it through evidence. Now you are accused because "your name came up" and you have to prove your innocence.
The attitude that "everybody's guilty of something" comes through in the line about how tag offenders are likely to have something else in their file.
Those seats are another reason to be pulled over. The seats are legal in the Brat (OEM equipment) but the state of CT requires an insurance rider to be carried by the car while in operation (Not necessarily while just in use, but while they are installed). Without that rider, you get the same charge and procedure for driving with no insurance / insufficient insurance.
The rider is typically $600 +/- a year added to your insurance coverage. Totally not worth it.
“I don’t have a problem with it if it us used strictly to locate criminals.”
More than a few folks on FR could get reclassified as criminals in the foreseeable future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9D9f_ySvkA
I think the dogs are on to something ....
They show a device like this being used on the show Parking Wars on A&E. The Detroit meter maids drive a van down the street, and a camera scans license plates for scofflaws who are supposed to get the boot. Eventually they’d catch up with them anyway, but the techology makes it a whole lot more efficient.
Do these only use CT DMV info, or other states also? Is there some nat’l db?
My Sister in law was in a long line of traffic waiting on left turn signal...cop passed...slammed on brakes...drove over the small median, came around and wedged his car in front of hers. Her driver license had expired 4 days prior.
This was in South Jersey on 73 at Cooper road near Berlin.
Exactly what the Nazis did.
Ya know......that's a very good question.
If I recall correctly, the seats in the back of the Brat were there simply to allow Subaru to import it as a passenger car rather than a small truck, saving a whole lot of taxes (or possibly having something to do with emissions or mileage standards). They were simple to remove and almost everybody did.
feels police statish to me.
Force the tax paying idiots to keep registering the same vehicle over and over and over and over and over....And hire hundreds of thousands of government employees, at tax payer expense, to process these registrations over and over and over and over....
In CT, we also pay a tax on the same car....EVERY year, for as long as we own it.
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