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by tpolm 13 days ago
If the survelliance tech is so great, why post amber alert messages with the license plate numbers all over all highways to help find the car?
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The more eyes the better the chances. Obviously it’s not total information awareness the likes one of the previous DNIs dreampt about. We see its imperfection if the fact that a very public case in an Arizona abduction case is basically cold. They basically have zero leads -which is pretty incredible in this day and age.
The Amber Alert system is much older than promiscuous cameras.

99% of the time it’s a custodial dispute, but that’s orthogonal.