@EdMyers

Good thoughts… I don’t fully trust automation, but if your going to keep data, it should disappear no later than 24 hrs after it was collected.

Even though I support automated law enforcement I do not support the preservation of data.  That data needs to disappear at the end of the shift.

Automation let’s me know the police process. They can’t hide discrimination as easily with automated tools. 

I greatly prefer getting a ticket in the mail than an officer stopping me, poking around my car, asking nosy questions and being an a-hole if I decline to answer questions.

I trust computers to be fairer than people.

Have you looked up Project Fairness?  They stalked my sister-in-law all the way to her home in Raleigh, NC wanting to know why she was in Loudoun County.  She was parked in my sister-in-law’s driveway!  She was here for 2 or 3 nights and left.  She was settling her mother’s and brother’s estates after they died.  They told her if she didn’t call the Tax Office and explain they would send her a $100 ticket and stop her the next time she’s in the Loudoun County.  Even a cop told me his girlfriend got one and was here for the weekend.  One of the Auxillary Police received one too.

I’d like to know the details of why the Department of Homeland Security is flying drones “arbitrarily” (Janet Napolitano’s words) over a free country.  They said they were “looking for criminals”.  What kind of criminals??

If it is true that the LCSO is taking part of this, we Loudouners need to mobilize to put an end to it.  We should find out when it started and who started it and why.  This is aggregious behavior.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

My points are totally valid, increased police power is same as increased govt power and that’s exactly want Obama and his willing toadies are doing.

@Bob_smith

You obviously have never bothered to read the Bill of Rights. I shouldn’t have to be bothered by police or have records kept of me until there is just cause to do so.

Your argument is absurd.  I may not be breaking the law, but I have a right of non-harassment and not to be tracked (ever hear right to privacy???) by the government.

If you don’t mind, why don’t you volunteer to have the police search your vehicle, your house, your person everyday?  Why don’t you voluntarily wear a tracking device like those on probation wear?  Why don’t you voluntarily allow yourself to be video tapped and recorded 24/7?

You can try to say they are separate issues all together, but where do you draw the line?

If you are not breaking a law, you have nothing to fear. Right?
Those who have such consternation over this are either extreme conspiracy theorists (too much time on their hands) or those who have or plan to break a law that could render them caught via this license plate database.

So, which are you?

@SW

It’s clear you trolling for the GOP platform.  My point and argument have absolutely nothing to do with GM, the Affordable Care Act, Solyndra, Fast and Furious, student loans, or any other right-wing talking point you can regurgitate against Obama. 

It has everything to do with civil liberties and the increased power police have against the citizenry.  None of your points are valid.

Good day sir.

Great point, Marshall. It’s the same problem with Obamacare, government takeover of GM, school loans, crony capitalism (e.g., Solyndra), etc, etc..  Very Orwellian indeed.

I have utmost respect for the job police and law enforcement professionals do at the local and national level.  However, I am quite alarmed at the level of tolerance the populace has given to police.  Yes, police need tools to effectively perform their roles but hasn’t the pendulum swung too far?  Police and the courts have expanded the boundaries of ‘reasonable suspicion’ and ‘probable cause’ and now they are using photo tracking equipment?  Seems an awful lot like an Orwellian world we live in where the authorities can know our lawful movements under the disguise of being able to protect us and keep us free.
 
Even though I consider myself a strong supporter of civil liberties, I don’t always agree with the ACLU – but in this case I’m 100% behind them asking for more details about these license plate cameras.  I don’t have anything to hide from the police, but I’m uncomfortable knowing that police can track me through their use of car mounted cameras.

I think this is the first time I’ve agreed with the Liberal ACLU.