From rubbing mud on plates to using fake temporary paper tags, police say these tricks are designed to avoid paying tickets, cheat toll technology, or to commit serious crimes, all without getting caught. NBC News’ Tom Winter shares how police are fighting back with technology.
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#Police #RedLight #Camera
I thought these cameras were illegal. They don’t do it in Dallas and surrounding cities anymore.
Police vehicles should be paying tolls too !
Keep electing democrats and this is what they are worried about. What about the real crimes ! Oh yeah , pointing that out makes you a racist.
Tolls are scam.
Lol I use spray on mine so when the camera attempts to take a photo it comes out super bright and unable to read.
Amount of people I see runing the red light is crazy
Good on those people. Tolls are a violation of being able to travel free-ly in the country.
ULTRA RICH DONT PAY TAXES!!!! so why nickel and dime everyday person?
all these cracking down on people hiding there plates BUT WHERES THE CRACKING DOWN ON HIT AND RUNS BUT CANT ACCESS THE FOOTAGE ON STATE AND CITY STREET CAMERAS??!!!!!?!!!?! Can a official answer this or where can submit my question?????
Could’ve sworn these toll roads we’re supposed to turn into paid highways. Ran by foreign companies taking Americans money for a project already paid for
Brian Webster of course will claim it’s a public safety issue, more work for him, he made $183k last year. Screw this guy…
I swear I’ve seen this video years ago wtfff
right on time
This is the end result of continuing to charge fees for infrastructure that was paid for decades ago.
Furthermore, it’s a violation of everyone’s 4th amendment to run a license plate without probable cause or a crime being committed. That’s settled SCOTUS case law. 1979. Delaware v Prouse.
It’s a HUUUUUGE problem. Stfu
Lies. The bridge tolls are funded by the state & feds & were already previously paid for via grants. The tolls themselves are now being used to line chief pockets or programs that have nothing to do with the network.
Bridge maintenance is also funded by the feds & is only occasional & annual.
It is NOT a public safety issue as it is a revenue generation fleecing tactic. As a prior city employee of New York, i can tell you this.
You stupid people don’t understand its a felony in some states to mess with you plate. Can you dig it?
DUI’s are a Huge problem too,
Of course they are, while they ignore property crimes even on video at a Target, since that doesn’t earn them any money and their current excuse/lie is that “they’re understaffed,” which means ticked they can’t just shoot anyone down so easily now.
People are being arrested for fake license plates, but murders are being set free.
Send more $$$$$$$$$$ to Ukraine!
Yet they keep raising your taxes higher and higher every year. So, where is the money going? Who is stealing the money? Start your investigation there.
Meanwhile there’s a mass murderer on the loose
A function of government is to maintain infrastructure. We already pay for the roads through taxes. Why should we pay for the same thing twice?
A toll is a throwback to the middle ages. Shall we also have plague doctors?
Our carpool lanes in California need more oversight
Because cracking down on toll and traffic cam evasion is apparently way more important than responding to actual emergencies and making sure everyone “on the job” is being held accountable for their actions!
Cops doesn’t pay why we should
Misdirection. The true aim is to track you every step of your life.
Lawless America, under the Democrat regime.
Is this where Klaus Shwab pops out and forces us to get a tracking device injected into us?
People not paying regardless of the reason is not the only reason why roads and bridges are not being fixed. Stop shaming.
Maybe if more cities stopped spending our money on “homeless” problems which are actually just their lack of enforcing drug problems, we’d be more apt to keep paying the interest it cost to build a new bridge. Or better yet, use the money we gave them to build the bridge bond free with cash instead. Each of my $5 toll to cross the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma, WA is now just paying back the bonds. They collected the actual construction cost of the bridge in tolls years ago! (side fact: we pay around $6 million per year on average just to run the stupid contracted company that runs the tolls! We basically pay tolls just to so we can pay more tolls!)
Roads are still crappy.
Maybe if NYS wasn’t such a ripoff…. The original purpose of tolls was to pay off the construction bonds. Almost all of them were paid off 50 or 60 years ago.
So they can’t find missing people or stolen items but they can make sure they crack down on tickets…..
All roads and highways should be free to drive on. That’s what our taxes pay for. Toll roads should all be abolished. We have a turnpike here in Oklahoma (Turner Turnpike) that is still charging us $5 to drive from Oklahoma City to Tulsa one way and it’s been paid off for decades. I’m still trying to figure out who the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is and how this is even legal and why we’re not protesting these criminals. I say cheat the system and hide your license plate because all of these roads are supposed to be free anyway.
Enforcement on plates in Omaha!!
Maybe if the roads were getting fixed for those high tolls we pay, no one would have an issue.
Still hitting the same potholes in NYC at 40 years of age that I hit when I was 15.
PS..toll workers need a raise.
SemperFi
Well, tolls being out of control is the bigger problem. Much Bigger Problem.
I.e the Florida Turnpike was built and permission given to build it because government officials 100% promised once the road was built and paid for tolls would be removed.
That promised never materialized. Instead, not only did the Florida government become dead beats, they became placed tolls on the federal interstate highways too. Now collecting federal taxes, local taxes and now an extra fee.
Florida officials need to be held accountable for their promises and all tolls throughout the state removed, AS PROMISED!
The Bait And Switch government need to end once and for all.
Claims of “criminals” is the same old gas lighting they’ve always done. The criminals are the government officials and employees.
Those mobile plate readers track you by putting you in a database that never erasers your information when it’s not relevant to a crime. A history of where you’ve been.
It’s against your right to move freely
Thats ok. We the people are going to crack down on tolls and rigged traffic lights.
We already give you money we don’t have. Your day will come.
Y’all turning me into a liberal. Defund these coloreds.
This American is sick of the police.
Maybe New York should stop ripping up people with tolls everywhere and unreasonable late fee charges.
The biggest crime is charging you for tolls on Bridges and tunnels that have been paid for a hundred times over. As you get older you’ll realize you’re born into a meat grinder
Glad my state doesn’t use red light cams.
Find better things to do! Focus on the murder rates, and drugs~!
Why do we even have tolls? The taxes we pay don’t cover it? How about taxing the rich and stop giving them tax cuts…
Democrats desperately trying to twist the narrative and distract America from what a mess they are making of our country and the world.what a bunch of hypocrites.
What law states that you have to let your license plate be video recorded?
I owe money for tolls and the state will never get their money. I will always take advantage of a government that takes advantage of me. I also will always win. Lol. Your white world is no match for my intelligence. I even have my own stingray which I use to intercept communications between government entities just like the government does. If it’s good for the gander it’s good for the goose.
Faqqq tht Americans shouldn’t have too pay too use bridges in America
How many police precincts do we have to go past Two see those same plates in the parking lot on their cars Do we really need to live in a panopticon
These people are angry because they can’t get revenue that’s all they want
Why do we have to pay to ride on a road that our taxes are paying for
Maybe if we didnt need a second job for a roll we wont do it.
Take the tolls down.
It’s mainly about cheating the Tolls.
The 407 is a pay toll highway in Canada. When it started operation everybody went out and got what was called “Lawyer plates”…
It’s a plastic cover you put over your license plate so it glares and cameras can’t pick it up.
I don’t drive myself but I heard it worked.
However if you got caught with one and you weren’t somebody who should have 1 you’d get a huge fine
Sighted still not all seeing
Obey all laws Joggers
Priorities. Often the rights to toll funds have been sold to foreign & domestic businesses. Cops are literally their private bag men instead of solving and preventing crimes that hurt working families. Meanwhile, the rich avoid paying taxes.
That bald nazi cop needs to find a way to violate your rights.. he’s not your friend, and he certainly doesn’t care about his oath.. just another bully who wants to get paid for the privilege.. investigation is in order..
We pay taxes to build the toll road. We pay taxes to use the road we pay to have a government tags to drive on the road now you wanna put us in jail because we dont wanna pay a toll.road..I call that a scam
It’s more taxes they want out of ya.thats all folks
This is the American dream
I like that hi-tech flipping plate
Get em!!!!!
Deal with expired license plate tags first.
Road pirates worry that too many of their potential victims are getting away with freedom.
Ppl just don’t have $$ anymore, yet still need to work.
THE PEOPLE “NOT PAYING THEIR FARE SHARE” ARE THE RICH GETTING ALL THE TAX BREAKS
D U H
NOT THE “AVERAGE JOE” WHO OBVIOUSLY CANT AFFORD THESE CONTINUOUS FEES
D U H
Garbage 🗑
When I was a kid we would walk into like a 7/11 and steel beer 🍺 so we used the bud 12 pack box and covered the plate and dude chased me out n I dropped like 6 beers but stopped to scoop them up and made it outa there . What was crazy the kids driving where football studs with scholarships to Michigan n Miami . We have been friend since the 70’s I was wild child and they lived beer lol
Keep squeezing people. I’m sure they’ll never get tired of it and snap.
Repo repo repo
Good. The same people who claim to be so righteous and quick to point a finger. It’s stealing period.
The same people complaining here are the same fools who give all their money to Trump’s grifts. 😂
That’s the point we don’t want to be tracked but the government always wants to watch you with a close eye.
Make it a felony and put each one you catch in jail for a full year. Then make them pay and attend probation for 2 years.
Cops running or scanning your plate BEFORE you’ve committed a crime. Isn’t that profiling? That shouldn’t be legal.
I remember the late 90s. I would pay for insurance for the first month only. Keep the card. I would throw mud on my plates. Worked for years. Got pulled over in 2000 for speeding. They just put it online if you had insurance or not. We in Oregon refuse to let the roads have tolls. It got voted down recently.
Having a wrong tag does not make you a criminal come down
People cracking down on the government violating the 4th Amendment
Probably because people are broke , but who am I to say
Google maps has this nice feature that has avoid tolls for anyone who really doesn’t want to pay tolls. I use that feature anytime I am on the road.
Just hit the options button and then select “Avoid tolls”
Hey how about focusing on things like I don’t know… police beating people to death.
Tax the rich
Fake news….. Government wants to track all of us. More copaganda on government overreach. They track every plate and where and keep the data
Gfys
Stop charging so much then
It’s been proven to be a criminal Enterprise and unconstitutional in a handful of states look it up watch the Youtube videos of it educate yourself how they’re robbing you and how to fight it
Cash Cams.
It’s simple covering your license plate gets your vehicle impounded no questions asked and as for a fake license plate or paper tag, the vehicle’s impounded immediately, and the driver goes to jail because that most likely means there’s no insurance on that vehicle, in the state I live you drive a vehicle with no insurance and get caught, you get a ticket and your vehicle gets towed
there are no positive things about cops or whites
Okay for New York, make it cheap. It’s expensive already to go through tolls and tunnels in the city.
Plate reader doesn’t do any good against obstructed plates lol. Waste of taxpayer money putting that tech on police vehicles.
It’s a “public safety issue” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That technology for the police to read number plates has been in the UK for about 20 years 😳 ANPR look it up.