Grits for Breakfast: License plate readers fail to accomplish crime fighting goals (http:\/\/gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/license-plate-readers-fail-to.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=79553&utm_campaign=0): <\/p>\n
Civil libertarians have expressed serious privacy concerns related to the widespread use of license plate readers by law enforcement, but an equally strong argument against may be that they simply fail to accomplish their goals and aren’t worth the bang for the buck. <\/p>\n
With the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee charged with evaluating the collection of geolocational data by government this year as part of their interim charges (pdf), I was interested to see that CrimeSolutions.gov – a federally sponsored site which provides evidence-based evaluations of crime-fighting strategies – lists license plate reader technology as a tactic which has “no effect” on crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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