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License plate reader technology picked up Virginia shooter’s car
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:43 pm
Pretty badass but scary at the same time
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License plate reader technology picked up Virginia shooter’s car
License plate reader technology picked up Vester Lee Flanagan’s car after he shot and killed two TV journalists in Virginia early on Wednesday.
A license plate reader in the vehicle of Virginia State Trooper Pamela Neff picked up Flanagan’s Chevrolet on Interstate 66 at approximately 11:20 a.m. ET.
During a press conference Neff explained that the car was quickly identified after she entered its details into her license plate reader. "As soon as it was entered, it came up with a positive hit that that vehicle just passed me less than three minutes earlier," she said. "I let my dispatch know that the vehicle has passed me and I attempted to catch up with the vehicle, which was travelling eastbound on 66."
State Police initiated a traffic stop but Flanagan, who also went by the name Bryce Williams, refused to stop and a few minutes later his vehicle ran off the road and crashed. Officers approached the vehicle but found Flanagan with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m. ET.
“Technology picked it up,” explained Sgt. Rick Garletts of the Virginia State Police, during a press conference Wednesday. “Once a license plate is entered into the system, that reader will be able to identify that license plate when it passes.”
“License plate readers are a great tool,” he added. “It helped in that case to identify that vehicle.”
Garletts explained that the license plate reader is not state specific, so, after the license plate has been noticed, the trooper has to identify the vehicle to ensure that it is the one police are looking for.
License plate readers, which use image processing technology, can be mounted on police cars or roadside structures such as bridges.
A growing number of technologies are available to help law enforcement, from sticky darts that enable GPS tracking of suspects’ vehicles to high-tech LED flashlights.
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Posted on 8/26/15 at 8:56 pm to GTSwarms
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scary
the fact you didn't know this existed is what's scary
Posted on 8/26/15 at 9:02 pm to aVatiger
It's definitely a great tool in this case. Hopefully it isn't being misused.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 9:18 pm to aVatiger
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the fact you didn't know this existed is what's scary
Naaah, I have a job where I work all day and have never been arrested in my life. I don't sit online all day trying to figure out how to run from the police. I just don't have time to research shite like this like you.
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I never knew there was technology out there that AUTOMATICALLY tagged license plates, sent the information up to the cloud and automatically alerted police of any warants, etc.
Now I do know there was a way for COPS to manually key in license plates in their computers in their cars but I never knew that there was a way to do it automatically.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 10:01 pm to GTSwarms
Do live in a state with heavy toll tag use? I know in Florida and Texas the tag readers are all over the cities regardless if a toll needs to be collected. They are constantly recording where vehicles go and when.
This post was edited on 8/26/15 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 8/26/15 at 10:14 pm to GTSwarms
From every shop that I have heard start using this tech (on a patrol car/mobile reader) they worried about the upfront cost. Everyone of them have had to make that car a two man unit because of the amount of hits and work it generates. It causes so many hits that most agencies using this set it to only alert on serious felony offenses and warrants. For example, stolen cars, AMBER alerts, felony warrants for registered owner, missing persons reports on registered owner etc.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 10:33 pm to Five0
I wish they could identify lack of insurance coverage using the plate scanner. Maybe soon, Texas needs it ASAP.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 10:41 pm to GTSwarms
It's not bad arse. It's terrible.
It's Big Brother shite.
Also, people have warrants, not license plates.
It's Big Brother shite.
Also, people have warrants, not license plates.
Posted on 8/26/15 at 11:04 pm to Scoop
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It's Big Brother shite.
Did you not see where I wrote "and scary"
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Posted on 8/27/15 at 8:09 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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It's definitely a great tool in this case. Hopefully it isn't being misused.
It is definitely being misused. I read somewhere they are selling individuals travel tendencies to third parties.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 8:33 am to GTSwarms
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A license plate reader in the vehicle of Virginia State Trooper Pamela Neff picked up Flanagan’s Chevrolet on Interstate 66 at approximately 11:20 a.m. ET.
I'm big into privacy and I'm completely fine with this. I'm not fine with readers being put at every intersection or adding every read to a ever growing database that never expires.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 8:56 am to aVatiger
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the fact you didn't know this existed is what's scary
He also thinks Windows 10 is a government plant. So there's that...
Posted on 8/27/15 at 10:41 am to GTSwarms
scary indeed
big brother, right around the corner
big brother, right around the corner
Posted on 8/27/15 at 11:52 am to GTSwarms
I don't remember what the name of the show is, but it fallows meter maids. In what ever city they are in, they have a van that just drives around with one of these looking for cars to boot or tow due to unpaid parking tickets.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 12:09 pm to CubsFanBudMan
Parking Wars
Posted on 8/27/15 at 12:42 pm to retired trucker
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big brother, right around the corner
right around the corner? Did Edward Snowden teach us nothing? Have you already forgotten about XKEYSCORE? Join the XKEYSCORE CLUB
Posted on 8/27/15 at 4:14 pm to schexyoung
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I wish they could identify lack of insurance coverage using the plate scanner. Maybe soon, Texas needs it ASAP
About 15 years ago I had a business plan to put an LED style light on license plates.
When someone lost insurance, didn't make a payment, a signal was sent out over the paging network that would cause the light to blink red. (It was normally green).
So if a light was not there or not green.. ie, anything other than green, a LEO would know to pull the driver over and check it out.
Business was HUGE potential.
I never could get funding for that business. Just too early for the market I suppose.
Even today, it would be a great idea. Screw having people without insurance on the roads.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 7:50 pm to Meauxjeaux
Sounds like a decent idea, but a simple led light could be circumvented pretty easily imo. You'd have to have some kind of system for accountability for it. No ideas for that though.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 10:35 pm to schexyoung
I do not disagree. I write warnings for most moving violations (because we are now kindler and gentler agency). No Insurance:
The fam has been affected by an uninsured driver to say the least.
The fam has been affected by an uninsured driver to say the least.
Posted on 8/27/15 at 10:40 pm to GTSwarms
But he had fake license plates that he didn't use
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