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Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. These cameras collect data on millions of vehicles—regardless of whether the driver is suspected of a crime. While these systems can be useful for tracking stolen cars or wanted individuals, they are mostly used to track the movements of innocent people.
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Amazing. How true is this? Anyone got a source?
Edit: ah, they only had 8 cameras. Still, that's amazing.
https://www.wqow.com/news/crime/winona-police-all-8-flock-cameras-stolen-poles-cut-at-base/article_62f9942f-690e-46a5-aa48-6798fbab3665.html
Yeah, Winona isn't that big. But also a couple of those cameras were in very public locations. Most were just next to a forest lined highway and those would have been easy. But two of them were like a block away from a quiet suburban neighborhood. Still not sure how they managed to get those without getting caught. I can't imagine someone living nearby wouldn't have noticed someone outside running a reciprocating saw in the middle of the night.
That's literally the whole point. If you saw something - no you didn't.
I actually did see the perp, now, bear with me here, but it appeared to be a 3 story tall creature from the paleolithic era
I hope they earned about three fiddy from the copper that was in the cameras
IDK. I saw the perp and I thought they looked an awful lot like Ted Cruz.