Story time

[nelle816]

My senior year and the summer after, I spent a lot of time at my friend Davids house. I was there after his brother died, I was there when his mom was sick. It was practically my second home. Years later, when chatting up a police officer in town, he jokingly mentioned that he ran my plates dozens of times before he finally started remembering my

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[embroiderama]

The issue I have with the automatic scanners is that it seems likely to catch people with minor, bureaucratic infractions than seriously harmful criminals. It just seems like a lot of tech thrown at catching people whose tags are expired or whose license is suspended because they didn't pay some ticket, and they're just trying to get to and from work. You know? So I guess I don't see it so much as an invasion of privacy as a tool to more efficiently harass ordinary people.

And yeah, I've been that loser with the bureaucratic law-breaking. More than once. And in this city which at that time had a rather shocking murder rate, I was an utterly non-threatening 23 year-old girl with no record other than what comes from failing to do paperwork things when I should, pulled over on the side of the road with seriously five cop cars around me because hey, let's spend as much time on this as possible so that we don't have to risk our butts catching any of the many, many thugs and drug-dealers out there. :\

[nelle816]

I suppose the argument could be made that drug dealers and thugs drive cars too and if you pull them over for something mundane you have a chance to find probable cause to catch them on something bigger. But yes,how many minor infractions do you have to hand out before you find the drug dealer who forgot to pay his registration and has his stash laying in the front seat?

The group on tv said they were mostly concerened about how long a persons information would be kept on file and who would have access to it. Like someone is judging them on how many tines they go to Walmart or McDonald's.