From the Editorial Board: Let’s make sure license plate readers and similar technology get used in a way consistent with American ideals of freedom, while at the same time helping to protect our communities and catch crooks.
A Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications worker monitors camera feeds, including license plate readers, on the Eisenhower Expressway in 2019.
, in part to identify suspects in hard-to-solve expressway shootings. There are far more of these cameras in Chicago than many people realize and they can snag fleeing wrongdoers several miles away from where they committed their crimes.An increasing number of suburbs are installing vehicle-scanning equipment as well. One of the leading providers, surveillance company Flock Safety, says its customers include neighborhoods, businesses and law enforcement in 2,000-plus cities — and counting.
Are you OK with having your movements shared with law enforcement agencies across the country, in a database that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the results of mass surveillance? And, closer to home, how about if your local neighborhood-watch enthusiast put your car on a “hot list” that generated an alert every time the cameras spotted your plate?
These cameras aren’t going away, and we lean in favor of their use, within reasonable limits. No one should expect privacy when they’re walking on a public sidewalk or driving down a public road, and the potential for curbing crime strikes us as a reasonable trade-off for being watched in those settings. And if a homeowner wants a camera on a private stoop, checking on package deliveries, that’s their right.
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