New York City plans to install 505 surveillance cameras around the city that will have the ability to capture images of license plates. The technology is being paid for using homeland security funds, and is billed as an anti-terrorism and crime measure. However, the license plate recognition technology could also be used to identify traffic violations such as speeding. However, no specific plans regarding traffic enforcement have been announced. The cameras will also have audio sensors intended to record gunshots and other events. Again, this opens the possibility for law enforcement to use the cameras to ticket motorists with loud stereos and exhaust systems — a practice already planned in Britain.
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03/22, 3:44 PM
posted by:
JW
Thats one of the most stupidest things i’ve ever heard! What are they going to do next, put cameras in bathrooms and ticket us for loud farts?
03/22, 4:15 PM
posted by:
87 635CSI
i’ll be purchasing that spray to obscure my plates thank you.
03/22, 5:02 PM
posted by:
Sean
hmmm…money from homeland security funds. I wonder how much of the operation will be for terrorist, after they realize that they could make a lot more money on violations/tickets. At that point, I wouldn’t be suprised if all the terrorist information (intelligence) from the cameras are burried in violation paperwork…
03/22, 5:09 PM
posted by:
Ken
Ohh, or just a plastic cover for the plates… Same as for the brits: WHAT A RIDICULOUS!!!! I´m very upset as american and I´ll be very ashamed to see this kind of stuff in MY country. Watch your bathroom for cams and microphones…
03/22, 5:21 PM
posted by:
gsh
hey 87 635CSI, let me save you some money and advise you to skip on that spray stuff. it doesnt work. get a plastic cover for the plate instead, the type that looks like a bubble (so it will bend the light from the camera flash).
03/22, 7:12 PM
posted by:
manny
i imagine this can be used for good… if it can hear gunshots and capture license plates, it could be used to solve drive-bys… but why use it for good when you could use it to ticket the hell out of people and pad the police budget?
ack… i dont want them using it that way… not in my home city…
03/22, 11:12 PM
posted by:
87 635CSI
Thanks. Will avoid spray..will get plate cover. May even tint the glass too.
03/23, 3:24 PM
posted by:
JoeKing
I feel safer already…Has anyone explained how taking millions of photos will lead to the capture of the “mythical” terrorists? Who cares..just say “TERRORIST” & only a traitor would be against anything to get them.
635CSI…plastic license covers..are illegal..in NYS. I actualy got a ticket for one…seriously. I plead not guilty..it was dismissed; the court clerk said she had never seen such a chicken…t ticket.