La Mesa Police Department officers already have the technology to read your license plates in their squad cars. Now they want to add additional readers on traffic lights so they can have extra eyes in the sky, like neighboring El Cajon.
“License plate readers are often one of the most useful investigative tools that law enforcement can actually have," said
“A vehicle theft is considered kind of a keystone crime that leads to other violent and property crime. So license plate readers are often one of the most useful investigative tools that law enforcement can have,” said Holly Baelin, a spokesperson for Flock Safety. “They’re collecting all the information that they can possibly collect about the car, the color, the make, the bumper stickers, any damage,” explained Hall. “Those systems are capable of not just reading license plates, but really tracking us as we move about our city, even though we're just normal people who theoretically are not accused of any crimes or suspected of doing anything."last month that the Flock system shares local data with out-of-state agencies.
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