OT.....Smile, you're on candid camera.......

[BobT-47P15]

.........err, make that candid radar.

They must get 'em coming and

going in Kansas City with this system.

I've never seen this setup before.

Those dark blue cars are hard to see when sitting in a dark place.

Edited April 20, 2012 by BobT-47P15

[Dan Hiebert]

Those are automatic license plate readers. Before every shift, the officer assigned a car with those on it downloads a hot-sheet for BOLOs, stolen, suspicious vehicles, etc. onto a mobile computer mounted in the car. The readers bounce what they see off the hot-sheet and alert the officer if they get a hit.

[JerseyHarold]

Those things are getting very popular here in NJ. Many towns and cities use them. It makes more holes to fill after the squad car gets auctioned off........

[4852dodge]

No holes, they clamp to the edge of the deck lid.

[Oldguy48]

Unfamiliar with "BOLO", but a Google search told me it's police talk for

"Be On the Look Out". Sounds like a great tool for our law enforcement officers.

[flatheadtim]

Its just a matter of time before they will be able to shut the car down with remote satelite. When I worked at the dealership awhile back we were adding satelite location and remote shut down to cars mainly for high risk financing for repo reasons but now they have it on some high end cars for theft reasons.

[TodFitch]

Its just a matter of time before they will be able to shut the car down with remote satellite. When I worked at the dealership awhile back we were adding satellite location and remote shut down to cars mainly for high risk financing for repo reasons but now they have it on some high end cars for theft reasons.

And sometimes the "thief" is unaware that the car is equipped with LoJack: http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/vehicle-33970-foiled-hesperia.html

[pflaming]

"BIG BROTHER" is here!. Yet if we live in fear of it, we can't live. If someone wanted to steal a really nice vehical, all they have to do is search the forums for the vehical of choice and figure out a way in.

And yet public forums like this one is such a great place for new frendships. I would like to take a large circular trip around the USA, with my truck, and have coffee with forum members. I just might actually do that, been thinking about it for a while.

[Plymouthy Adams]

for sure we drink coffee in Elko...

[pflaming]

Tim: I just took a break and looked at a national map. Straight east of my house is Knoxville, TN: straight WEST of Elko, GA is Tajuana, Mexico, Seriously I did not realize so much of the continental USA is below San Diago. I've crossed the nation many times by air, been in all the major cities, but I would like to drive it once, or as they say in Arkansas, 'onest'!

[TodFitch]

Tim: I just took a break and looked at a national map. Straight east of my house is Knoxville, TN: straight WEST of Elko, GA is Tajuana, Mexico, Seriously I did not realize so much of the continental USA is below San Diago. I've crossed the nation many times by air, been in all the major cities, but I would like to drive it once, or as they say in Arkansas, 'onest'!

Google maps puts the center of Elko, GA at 32.330833°N and Tijuana centered at 32.533489°N which, if my calculations are correct, means that Elko is 13.98 miles south of Tijuana so your "straight WEST" might be a little off.

On the other hand, Rosarita is pretty close to due west of Elko and is a much nicer place that Tijuana. At least it was the last time I was in that area many, many years ago.

[greg g]

Around hear they use them for parking meter scoff laws. They load the Boot Em Up list and drive around the city streets.

One would think they would need some warrent to cruise private parking lots.

[Joe Flanagan]

So I wonder if Tim ever takes a jaunt over to Tijuana in his low rider of a Saturday night.

[pflaming]

Joe, he probably grows his own hemp.

[BobT-47P15]

WELL!!

This has been an educational thread.

Obviously I a**-sumed those were radar units.

Had not heard of the reader system described.

Veerry Innteresting........

As they say, I learn something new all the time.

[Dan Hiebert]

Around hear they use them for parking meter scoff laws. They load the Boot Em Up list and drive around the city streets.

One would think they would need some warrent to cruise private parking lots.

For traffic enforcement it depends on the State, i.e. in New York any parking lot with access to a public thoroughfare is free game, including accident investigations. You can conceivably get a ticket for running one of those stop signs in the mall parking lot. While in Texas the police will only investigate an accident, or do traffic enforcement, on the streets. As far as general enforcement, any parking lot with public access to a public thoroughfare is free game - decision of several Federal District and Appelate Courts, and at least one Supreme Court decision.

[greg g]

So a lot with a barrier, gate, guard shack, where a card swipe, barcode, rfi, etc, would not be considered as it is not public access?