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by xnx 30 days ago
> I’d love to see people running on banning red light/license plate cameras

Not me. We've become way too soft on vehicle crime which is often tied to other crimes. I'd love to see a lot more automated enforcement: speeding, red light running, shoulder riding, missing or fake tags, noise violations, car emissions, etc.

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How do you perform automated enforcement of missing or fake tags?
2 options come to mind, neither perfect:

1) My city already has ALPR vans for finding parking ticket scofflaws. Expand use of those finds to find cars with expired, fake, or missing plates. Boot or tow the cars.

2) Use toolbooths to identify cars with expired, fake, or missing plates. Patrol cars at the ready to pull them over.

that’s great but these plate readers have nothing to do with that.