“Every vehicle you pass, if there’s something wrong with that vehicle’s registration, it will flag,” Weitzel explained.
Fixed cameras send the same notification back to a collection center. With cameras mounted on squad cars, an officer’s laptop will light up with a red “flag” to indicate there’s something wrong with a plate’s registration. In a speech late last year about the spike in violent crime in Chicago, she promised to “dramatically expand the reach of cameras with license plate readers.” Mayor Lori Lightfoot has called them “a huge, huge tool” for police. ALPRs in Chicago log 200 million license plates a year, giving police a detailed pattern about drivers’ daily habits and offering real-time alerts about cars wanted in crimes. The majority of large police departments in the country now use them.
ALPRs use software to scan the license plates of every passing car, recording the date, time, GPS coordinates and even pictures. The cameras - known as automated license plate readers - are described by many in law enforcement as essential in their work, and they have been proliferating over the last decade. And in February, a camera helped catch a 16-year-old boy suspected of gunning down a 15-year-old boy minutes earlier in Bronzeville. A month later, the cameras led police to a suspect who was about to enter the Dan Ryan Expressway after fatally shooting a man in Chinatown.
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