guess what prolific career criminals do with crime cars?

they look for a car that is very similar if not exact make and model of thier stolen vehicle, then they "clone" the victims license plate with a sheet of embossment copper and a stylus, apply paint at thier shop and affix the imposter to the crime vehicle. that buggers the whole LPR thing.

they can replicate dozens of plates in a day and offer the service for contras.

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Avshalom 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That seems like a lot of effort when you can just take the license plate off and if you're really worried print off a convincing temporary license and tape in the back window.

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rolph 7 hours ago | parent [-]

its effort well worth it, and really is not a lot of effort. if you stole the plate, the theft is evident, when there are duplicates then it becomes difficult to know which one to suspect, and that also presupposes knowledge of the duplication.

you would have to realize, it is not feasible for a car to be in location 1 thenbe in location 2 many miles away in a few minutes.

the odd thing about criminals is thier effort to perpetuate crime is often far greater than getting a job, but is somehow the preferable option.

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FireBeyond 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> you would have to realize, it is not feasible for a car to be in location 1 thenbe in location 2 many miles away in a few minutes.

You say that but just last week there was a post here about how LPR claimed that the same car was in two locations in a timeframe that would have required the car to have been traveling non-stop at 160mph for 20 minutes through suburban streets, and even then authorities and proponents were defending it as plausible, or that the LPR was right, but there might just have been timing issues, or, or, or.

	▲	rolph 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		i think i saw that post, i think we're both describing what happens when someone copies plates and doppelgangs people to throw off the surveillance. i think in this case the LPR was right, the same plate number was in two different places, the assumption of how many plates were involved needs review. 160mph for 20min through suburban streets, that kind of attracts attention, there would be a lot of complaints and witnesses if that happened

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Gigachad 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really because it flags an anomaly where the same plate is found in two places that are impossibly far to reach in the time span. Then police can just pull over that plate when they see it with a 50/50 chance it's the stolen car.

The more cameras in the network the faster and more likely a duplicated plate will be spotted.

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next_xibalba 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure. But if we have enough surveillance cameras, we can just trace the full path of the car from the moment of theft to now. I'm reminded of Gorgon Stare [1]. Stolen cars suck. But how about murders? I'm sure all of the people who've had loved ones murdered in, say, South Chicago, might have a more positive opinion of such a system. Especially since it wouldn't have to rely on witnesses who are cowed by the threat of reprisal and anti-snitch culture.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare