tptacek
Forget "quiet red areas". Every suburb surrounding mine, in Chicagoland(!), has expanded their use of ALPR cameras. People want them, not just in red areas.
Dec 15 at 6:50pmWeb
Show threadbaggy_troughDec 15
Blue areas have often failed to do a good job suppressing crime (e.g. California), so people seek alternatives.
Show threadtptacekDec 15

I have my complaints about this, but "blue areas" over the last several decades have meant "all major metros", and some forms of crime are just endemic to density, and in some sense all crime simply tracks population.

But we don't have to agree on that; people everywhere care about crime, and the promises ALPR vendors make, while arguable, are not ludicrous.

Show threadbaggy_troughDec 15
In my area, for example, there are counties where if a thief can escape there, they will not be prosecuted. So I support Flock since it gives a higher chance of interception in my county, which will prosecute them.
Show threadtptacekDec 15
What we found is that the cameras mostly had us enforcing failure-to-appear warrants for neighboring municipalities, which was not an in-kind contribution we wanted to make to those munis, and so we didn't get much value from the cameras, which is a big part of why we shut them off.