America is rapidly becoming a police state lorded over by an unholy alliance of big government and big business, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the recent practices of a private surveillance company.
Joining forces with police departments across Texas, Vigilant Solutions is providing law enforcement agencies in the Lone Star State with thousands of automated license plate readers (ALPR), in addition to complete access to the company’s information records and data. Incredibly, the company is offering all this for free. Well, free for the police anyway.
See, although law enforcement doesn’t have to pay for all this newfangled equipment, somebody does, and that somebody is Texas motorists. Using ALPRs, officers will be able to intercept drivers with outstanding warrants just by running their license plates into Vigilant’s database, something that should concern privacy advocates everywhere.
On top of this, police plan to install credit and debit card readers in their vehicles so that upon pulling drivers over, they can make them pay not only any potential tickets or fines on the spot, but a 25% service fee for the “convenience” of being able to pay immediately. A fee of course, that goes straight to Vigilant, not law enforcement.
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Hell, big business nor government has protected your ID or Information. Tell me again how this system of immediate identification won’t fall prey to the same BS? Thats what I thought! Hmmmm
long live big brother, long live big brother…….mike
why do cops use this type of technology? they should realize they are contributing to our police state
They’re doing what they’re being told. They’re just contributing to the false cause like most of us who run the rat race. Its not the cops, ots their bosses, the politicians.
Wouldn’t need them if people payed their car insurance bill??? or if they obeyed the law and didn’t get warrants on them???
All this is new to me.
I fully support it. If you have to warrants what the problem? But they should keep a record of all the plates scanned to make sure no crazy cop scans a hot babes plate just to get her name and adress.
NOTHING honorable about the profession anymore…lil p**s ant tax collector’s hiding behind authority nothing more..NOT here to protect and serve anyone except another cop!!!!!
U dont always have to break the law to be harassed by the cops
its not like it used be out there 20 years ago…cops need all the help they can get…