The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports, former officials say, even going so far as to propose dropping charges rather than risk revealing any details about the placement and use of their covert license plate readers. Readers are often disguised along highways in traffic safety equipment like drums and barrels.
I'm all for the govt posting military on the border, and the shored of the the Atlantic, Pacific, the Gulf of Texas, the St Lawrence River, and preventing people from entering the country and stopping anything that comes over the line that is our national boundary.
But this license plate shit? On top of having computers read our every text, every email, every website, and listen to every phone call... and none of that has prevented drug deals from being a bajillion dollar business in every of the 50 states, proves it's all been useless. It didn't prevent the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. school shootings, etc.
So, monitoring every license plate... has that resulted in car insurance fraud arrests? Nope. Expired car registration tickets? Nope. Stolen cars getting found? Nope.
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