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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Police Car Camera Can Get You Coming and Going

License plate reader grabs photos of everything it passes

  You might not notice the cameras mounted on the back of one Strongsville police cruiser as you go by, but they'll see you. The Automatic License Plate Reader grabs a picture of every vehicle it passes, sending the numbers to a database to see if there's any reason police should stop your car. "On a good day, it'll run 1,000 plates on a shift," said Officer Dan McNeal, who often drives the cruiser on road patrol. The $16,000 unit, which came to Strongsville through a grant from Cuyahoga County, is designed to seek out stolen vehicles, missing people and those with arrest warrants, Chief Jim Kobak said. It sends license plate numbers to a regional data sharing system and sounds an alert if there's a hit. "The main purpose was originally to…

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10:35 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013

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