[Nanana909]

Then some statistics shouldn’t be hard to find.

I can’t find anything stating this is “very common”. I guess as a rough metric for “very common” let’s say on a similar level to heart attacks. Quite rare still but common enough that you could be justified in calling it very common.

So 850,000 cases per year.

[DropInIn]

When authori actively suppress the release of such data sets don't blame the citizens for using what little anectodal data they have.

[jjoonathan]

First page of google: 93 percent of police departments in cities with populations of 1 million or more use their own ALPR systems

[vGPU]

He’s clearly asking about how often the whole “I didn’t know I had felonies” thing happens, not license plate readers.