Well, I get this video from a friend this morning. It is a cop describing this handy-dandy Orwellian gizmo the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have. Since the video looked legit or was, at the very least, a very slick hoax I set out to debunk/authenticate it and came across a whole body of knowledge centered around car thefts.
It seems that British Columbia is using a new technology called Automatic Licence Plate Recognition (ALPR), to target both traffic violators and stolen vehicles.
As you can see from the website address, it's tied to something called baitcars. Hmmmm. Well, go to their MAIN SITE for an explanation of all manner of things. For example: a "baitcar" is, as the name implies, a car put out by the police who hope that you take it off and they can study your nasty little behavior, find your hidy hole, etc.; a "lo-jack" is an aftermarket vehicle tracking system that allows vehicles to be tracked by police after being stolen; and a "honey trap" is a form of sting operation, in which "wrong doers are lured into revealing themselves to a policing organization. This would include a bait car, where a sting operation targets a known or suspected individual and attempts to trap them committing a specific case of crime, a honey trap establishes a general lure to attract unknown criminals."
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FOR EXAMPLES OF PERSONS CAUGHT IN THE ACT
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