Portland police scanning 128,000 license plates a day

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    fucking

    pigs
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    If the car never has down time, that's 1 picture every 10.8 seconds.

    24 x 60 x 60 = 86400 seconds per day

    86400 / 8000 pictures per car per day = 10.8 seconds per picture per car

    I think the number's too high, but then, any number is too high. How does the technology work?
     
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    I'm not concerned. So long as it's the bad guys getting caught.
     
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    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

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    "If you don't have anything to hide you shouldn't worry about it"

    Ultimate sheep think
     
  6. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Huh?

    Do you mean that this is some sort of a police state and innocent people are being targeted?
     
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    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

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    We should all wear a tracking device by your logic

    So they can make sure we don't wander away from the flock
     
  8. BLAZER PROPHET

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    Ya know, I can see why what's her name left.

    You can really be an ass sometimes purely for the sake of being one.
     
  9. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    The police system now holds more than 3 million images with date, time and location recorded.
     
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    3RA1N1AC 00110110 00111001

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    Not following

    We simply disagree, you are for the government tracking our movements, I am not

    I haven't called you any names, or attempted to place blame on you where none is warranted, so why are you doing that to me?
     
  11. maxiep

    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I find this kind of surveillance disturbing.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    This will catch bad guys to protect our freedom. The next step is to connect chains to everyone's ankles which connect to the police station. If you're not going places you're not supposed to, you have nothing to worry about.
     
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    The premise is sound I guess, but there's too many variables and issues from really making this an effective method. Criminals could recently sell their car to an innocent person who would then be wrongfully profiled, they can switch plates to a completely different vehicle, there's technological errors that could occur, etc. This should maybe be utilized when Amber Alerts are released and thats it. As a whole things like this come off creepy as shit though.
     
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    This is really just another way to look at the central theme that will be defining our era. What is the proper trade off between freedom and safety?

    There are some freedoms that we all agree need to be curtailed, like the right to take whatever you want. OK, that's an extreme, we all agree that you should not be able to steal, permitting that would invalidate society and ruin any community. On the other side, we all agree that we should not be forced to wear anklet tracking devices. That would immediately make everyone feel accused and without free will.

    Somewhere between those two points is a good balance. I really don't know where that balance should end up, but I just think that we go too far in the "more freedom" direction, we can always pull it back if it becomes too unsafe. But if we go too far in the "safety first" direction we will have a hard time adjusting back to the center because that direction gives power to some members of society to keep us safe and we all know that people with power don't give it up.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    God, I worry when I agree with you.
     
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    maxiep RIP Dr. Jack

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    I don't believe in that tradeoff. While I pay taxes for public services partially to keep me and my family safe, I am also personally responsible for my own safety and that of my family.
     

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