{"id":60759,"date":"2025-04-11T05:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60759"},"modified":"2025-04-11T05:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:05:59","slug":"lat-a-rich-l-a-neighborhood-donated-surveillance-technology-to-the-lapd-then-drama-ensued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60759","title":{"rendered":"LAT: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD \u2014 then drama ensued"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LAT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-04-10\/cheviot-hills-license-plate-readers-lapd\">A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD \u2014 then drama ensued<\/a> by Libor Jany:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>When residents of a ritzy West L.A. neighborhood experienced an increase in burglaries last year, they decided to invest in technology to fight the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The neighborhood association in Cheviot Hills \u2014 a community of million-dollar homes sandwiched between the 10 Freeway and Century City \u2014 raised more than $200,000 to purchase scores of controversial, high-tech cameras that scan license plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The automated plate readers, as they are known, enable authorities to track when vehicles of interest pass through certain intersections. The devices can also be mounted on police cars, allowing officers to sweep up troves of license plate data as they drive around. Police say the gadgets help investigate stolen cars, locate fugitives, and solve crimes by checking who came and went from a neighborhood on any given day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAT: A rich L.A. neighborhood donated surveillance technology to the LAPD \u2014 then drama ensued by Libor Jany:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60760,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60759\/revisions\/60760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}