D.C. Police Arresting Drivers With Expired License Plates

[deafsmogtech]

it actually costs money to arrest them. it's just simpler to issue fines. in NYC - NYPD will tow your cars and fines you too. double-whammy profits.

Good point. I go with fines or tow with fines either. No birdcages and save taxpayer's money.

 

[Reba]

They use them in SC:

North Charleston police officers approached a stolen, abandoned SUV on Wednesday to find its only occupant holding what looked like a pistol.

Even more startling: the person holding the gun was a 3-year-old boy.

He handed the gun to officers, saying "Gun. Gun," according to a police report.

Police quickly took the gun and determined it was actually a pellet gun.

The boy had been left alone in a sport utility vehicle by a man who bailed out after an officer tried to stop it.

Moments earlier, an officer was patrolling near Remount and Yeamans Hall roads when his automated license plate recognition system alerted him to a stolen vehicle nearby. The officer found the vehicle, a red Montero Sport with Utah tags, near Remount Road and Read Street, the report said.

Before the officer could stop the SUV, the driver turned into a driveway, jumped out and ran away.

As the officer approached the SUV, the child, who was sitting in the front seat, reached into the center console and pulled out the pellet gun. After taking the gun from the boy, police called for assistance from the S.C. Department of Social Services....

Toddler with pellet gun found in stolen, abandoned SUV | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment

It was about 10:15 p.m. when the Automated License Plate Recognition system alerted a North Charleston police officer that a black Ford F-150 pickup truck with Michigan tags was stolen.

North Charleston is one of several local law enforcement agencies using cruisers equipped with ALPR systems, with which car-mounted cameras take photos of license plates and run them through a database of stolen or wanted vehicles maintained by the State Law Enforcement Division....

License tag alert leads to stolen truck, arrest | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment

Tag-scanning device aids DUS, fifth charge

North Charleston police say an Automated License Plate Recognition device carried in a patrol car and used to scan other vehicles' license tags led to the arrest of a man on a habitual offender violation and a fifth-offense driving under suspension charge.

The report states the device alerted an officer late April 29 about a car reported to be stolen, and the officer pulled it over. It was learned that the car had been removed from the stolen list, and the information was not yet in the computer system.

The computer confirmed the 31-year-old driver had a suspended license and had been convicted four times in the past five years of driving under suspension, the report says. Records also showed the driver was on habitual offender status, according to the report. He was charged and booked into the Charleston County Detention Center.

North Area Police Blotter | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment

 

[posts from hell]

New York - Two Police Departments Press Mobile License Plate Readers Into Action -- VosIzNeias.com

New York - Two area police departments have installed license plate readers into patrol vehicles with grants from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services.

The Monticello Village Police and Town of Chester Police received the funding for the devices.

The license plate reader uses infrared cameras that scan license plates on vehicles and then checks them against a database for stolen and suspended registrations.

Monticello Police while working with State Police during joint Impact patrols using a State Police license plate card reader was able to make several arrests for suspended registrations, drivers’ licenses and recovered stolen vehicles.

Since receiving the device last week, Chester police have made seven misdemeanor vehicle and traffic law arrests.

Boulder police has them installed too, but almost can't see them.