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More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, More

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by loteck

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In my city, our police recently reported that in one year, they searched the ALPR database 240,000 times.
Of those searches, approximately 165 of them assisted any police case, in any way.
What is ALPR being used for the other 99.8% of the time?