Submitted 1 day ago by Periodicchair@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Would it be realistic to use licence plate readers that cities have (like Flock) to track ICE activity? Most of the time local police are at the scene of these events, even though they should not be helping in any way (in a santuary state). The police could collect the plate number of all the ice vehicles, and put them into a hotlist.
Any time one drives past a plate reader, it will post it publcly and maybe send an alert to anyone who opts in.
How feasable would this be?
You could probably deobfuscate their ad IDs on googles network to obtain real time tracking data for free.
It’d be a non-trivial project, but 100% doable.
Real Time Bidding is wild.
Technically possible, but a capitalistic oligarchy run by a narcissistic illiterate moron and staffed by psychopaths won’t actually do it.
I am thinking more cities doing this, they’re the ones that own the cameras. Sure, some city councils love Trump, many others are probably scared of doing anything. But there must be some that are willing to resist.
I doubt OP is calling for Trump to do it.
According to my husband. If one could get the raw data. It would be trivial. One could run it all on a single raspberry pi if one did some engineering.
It should be pretty easy to pick out federal government plates, but I’m not unconvinced that they use rental cars to do the kidnapping.
The only thing stopping them is which license plates are ICE
People may be able to information via FOIA requests. It would likely take months.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
I recommended reaching out to groups that have been tracking ICE for years. They know what works and what doesn’t
uniondelbarrio.org/eng/
Organize a meeting with them to setup a local chapter