Anyone's neighborhood/subdivision use "Flock Safety" License Plate Reader at entrance?

Does it work for Nissan Altimas with fake paper tags?

If not, not sure how this would work better than an actual gate.

Id question living in a place that needs that level of private security in order to feel safe.

My current hood doesn't use Flock but we've had it in prior neighborhoods.

It's a good system, it helps the police. In areas like Atlanta/Buckhead, where it's fairly common to have "sprees" of the same groups of people stealing cars and making hits on neighborhoods with increasing boldness over weeks/months, it's shown to be really valuable. They're often from areas 20+ miles away and they switch cares/plates, so time is of the essence.

Flock can get the details to police and interact with other Flock/police cameras to track and ping law enforcement quickly. Police departments will often come in and help you pick beneficial locations for cameras/readers - they love Flock.

The downside tends to be privacy concerns. What gets shared automatically with law enforcement, who can subpoena footage (cheating in a divorce case, etc.) are the type of things that get debated. There may be straightforward solutions to that stuff, I can just tell you from an HOA that has considered it for multiple years and never opted in, those are common concerns.

A team of Gurkha mercenaries provides security at my sprawling compound..

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Great system. We are making them mandatory on every street within our neighborhood. Once the pilot is done we aim to put them in every house as well.

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you must live in the hood

In my hoa we don’t have to worry about security because we bribed all the realtors into telling everyone our neighborhood is a “sundown town”

Our community has entrance and exit cameras at the gate to get license plates, camera's at the pool, etc.

This will lead to at least three divorces.

Yes, my neighborhood has one. There is only one way in and one way out so we never have any problems.

Also, as a Gurka, I am a senior member of a security team at a sprawling compound.

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Most of this board is nuts. License plate readers didn’t do shite in my gated parking garage. Buick, with plates stolen off another Buick, tailgated someone into our apartment garage. Everyone wearing masks. Took the $9,500 (each truck) taillights out of 3 F250s in less than 20 minutes. Never caught, even though the plates were captured on at least nine cameras.

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Sounds less like a plate reader problem and more like your local police services are shite.