[QUOTE=MEBuckner]
Gregg Junnier and Jason R. Smith.
Just curiosity, if a police officer runs your tags, is there some record of this? Would the computer pop up that the tag number in question had last been checked at 11:52 A.M. on May 6, or anything like that?
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There is in Illinois because it was in the news that some officers had been found to do this inappropriately upon research into their habits after accusations of misuse.
[QUOTE=MEBuckner]
Just curiosity, if a police officer runs your tags, is there some record of this? Would the computer pop up that the tag number in question had last been checked at 11:52 A.M. on May 6, or anything like that?
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Yes. As I stated way back in post 50 our state routinely does audits to see if plate lookups are being done correctly. ETA: I don’t know how often they hit each department because I wouldn’t hear about it unless I was doing something wrong.
[QUOTE=picunurse]
One thing no one has mentioned is that the plates/ tags on your car, in a way, don’t belong to you, they simply identify you & your car. Think of your plate as an icon on your computer. The plate is just a reference to the information available on you and your car. Having that data current, compliant and accessible is the price you pay for the privilege of operating a motor vehicle.
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Exactly. Here in Jersey your plates belong to the MVC. You don’t get to keep them forever like you own them. You are supposed to turn them in when you get rid of the car. They don’t exactly hunt you down if you don’t. I still have a set in my garage that I haven’t gotten around to turning in yet.
[QUOTE=Loach]
Yes. As I stated way back in post 50 our state routinely does audits to see if plate lookups are being done correctly. ETA: I don’t know how often they hit each department because I wouldn’t hear about it unless I was doing something wrong.
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In our system this could only be done by special program by going into the hard drive of the MDT unit. It can’t be done by individual officers. (I’m talking about units in squad cars, not plate checks made through dispatch).
For example, at 7:45pm today [true scenario] I parked the squad I used since noon
in the lot at the station. Officer “Lance” took it out at 8:15pm. He would be unable to check and see what things I had run through the squads data terminal.
In July we’re getting new units. No idea as to their capability.
FYI the units we’re using now are almost 12 years old, so we’re talking ancient.
[QUOTE=pkbites]
FYI the units we’re using now are almost 12 years old, so we’re talking ancient.
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So before shift, do you have to shovel coal into the unit, or do you have to add hamster feed? 
[QUOTE=Rick]
So before shift, do you have to shovel coal into the unit, or do you have to add hamster feed?
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Hey, I’m surprised we’re not still carrying revolvers!
Not that there’s anything wrong with that 
[QUOTE=pkbites]
In our system this could only be done by special program by going into the hard drive of the MDT unit. It can’t be done by individual officers. (I’m talking about units in squad cars, not plate checks made through dispatch).
For example, at 7:45pm today [true scenario] I parked the squad I used since noon
in the lot at the station. Officer “Lance” took it out at 8:15pm. He would be unable to check and see what things I had run through the squads data terminal.
In July we’re getting new units. No idea as to their capability.
FYI the units we’re using now are almost 12 years old, so we’re talking ancient.
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The question was if there was a record of the plate lookups, not if the officer could see the record. If there is a way to see the history of lookups on a particular plate from the car I don’t know it. Don’t really care, it wouldn’t effect what I do. We all know that there is a record kept that will be checked from time to time.
[QUOTE=pkbites]
Hey, I’m surprised we’re not still carrying revolvers!
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Blackpowder?
[QUOTE=Rick]
Blackpowder?
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Up until '97.
They had to convert, though. Some of the FANG’s were poking themselves in the eye with the ramrod.
[QUOTE=medstar]
I’m confused, gonzomax. Why would you have to provide 40 hours of community service AFTER your wife showed that she made good on the check? I would have thought that the court would have released you with no further punishment. :dubious:
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Because it was free labor. I was as shocked as you when the judge said everything is straightened out now talk to the probation officer. She informed me that I had to do community service.
The service group was huge. They had more than a hundred people doing work for the community for free. Infractions were such as kids having a loud party when parents were not home. They wrote him a ticket and when he went to court they informed him his weekends that summer belonged to Livonia. Kids got in a fist fight in school. They became free labor. Any one they got went to work.
I moved wood chips and landscaped the city hall buildings. I painted the bleachers at a high school. I picked up papers in the park.
If the guy in charge decided you were not working hard enough ,he could say the day did not count. Just his say so. One guy had 30 days and after 20 days ,he still had 20 to go. He told them hell with it he would do his time. They said 30 days in jail ,if you leave early none of your time counted. It was a set up for free labor.
[QUOTE=Tristan]
The several times I have been pulled over (as a passenger) in friends cars, it has always always been “we smelled marijuana from this car”.
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You were pulled over because they smelled marijuana from the car? That’s some amazing olfactory abilities on those cops!
Zombie thread killed.
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