57 points by JumpCrisscross 2 days ago|11 comments
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rickydroll 20 hours ago
How hard would it be to create community-run license plate capture systems, not unlike those you see police use to capture license plates?
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tencentshill 18 hours ago
The camera would have to be on private property, or someone would have to hold the camera/take shifts on a public street corner in accordance with loitering laws. Even then, they will harass and intimidate you for standing there with a camera.
ICE drives rental cars so it's a matter of time before delusional superhero cosplayers attack a random guy in town for a shower curtain ring convention who happens to get the same car next.
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advisedwang 2 days ago
You have a valid point about accuracy, but we haven't seen any incidents of violence on ICE agents at all, so I wouldn't worry about this causing mistaken ones.
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plorg 2 days ago
Other public reporting notes that the system used, while heuristic in some cases, includes multiple different kinds of ICE ~oracles, so just seeing a rental car isn't enough for anyone to treat a vehicle as "confirmed" anyways.
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elil17 2 days ago
Maybe ICE shouldn't use rental cars then.
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Terr_ 2 days ago
Hell knows they've got the budget for it, as last year Republicans voted to give them more money than many foreign militaries, and more than all other Federal law enforcement combined.