License Plate Scanner Equipped Helicopters

[rhertz]

Originally Posted by KSLA

Thursday night's operation resulted in no recovered stolen cars and nobody was arrested for stealing cars. But the Shreveport Police Department and State Police consider last night's operation a huge success. "This really showed last night how successful that can be running the joint operation," says Ortiz. Thursday night's test run did result in 34 tickets written

Something about this bothers me. They tout this as an effort to recover stolen cars, but recover no cars and instead write 34 tickets at oh lets say $100 each for a total of $3,400 in one day. Apparently this $20k reader will pay for itself in no time! Even if it recovers no stolen cars. If less than 1 in 2,400 cars is stolen, then do we really need this level of intrusion in our lives? But we might as well get used to it because government is getting ever bigger while computers are getting ever faster and cheaper.. this could lead to a bad mix someday.