Yup, they’ll install these, use them for a year, claim they helped recover x hundred stolen vehicles, then move right into using them for parking enforcement and ticketing for license and registration violations. Cities want more revenue streams, and stuff like this that voters don’t need to pass and that…

Yeah, it’s great until they realize they are missing a potential source of income and start pairing up these readers with cameras and using them for parking enforcement, registration violations, surveillance if a crime has happened, etc, etc. No thanks.

“In a perfect world with the right staffing, I think it would be beneficial,” [Assistant Police Chief Eddie] Garcia said. “But right now, we need to ask ourselves if we have the capacity to take on something like this. If we don’t have the staffing, it just puts an added burden on us at that point.”