Cop camera identifies 100s of plates per minute, checks if you didn’t pay your taxes

If you are tax evader, don’t hang out in New Haven, Connecticut. In the past year, the city has collected nearly $3 million in due taxes using technology to bust the bad guys. The tech used here is part camera/part software that identifies the license plates of offenders.

New Haven’s tax collector is almost giddy at his investment in the MPH-900 License Plate Recognition technology. New Haven’s solution mounted special cameras to a police cruiser that are capable of reading license plates though 360 degrees and alerting the officer if one of these plates belongs to a known tax evader. If the officer is able to confirm the car does belong to a scofflaw, the car is towed and the owner is instructed to contact the tax collector’s office for resolution.