The system is a paper tiger
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They make news stories like this precisely to create this kind of foolish response.
6 cameras. In a city the size of Houston. Think about this for a second. Why is this even a news story? Why are the poles cut but the cameras left untouched? Why is it only in "nice" neighborhoods?
They've planted this story through several other local outlets. Here's the game: when you see a local news story, look up the market, look up their "competitors," then go see if the exact same story is being run there.
If you really want to fuck this system up start stealing license plates and then putting them on the wrong vehicles. This all relies on little stamped aluminum plates. The people making this technology are, at the end of the day, ignorant retards, who are easily defeated. Cutting down the poles isn't one of them.
Oh you sweet summer child. This isn't about tracking license plates, this is about create a total surveillance system. They're tracking people and behaviors and trends, not sequences of characters stamped into a sheet of metal. They know its your car because of that slight dent in your rear passenger door and because you rolled past at 3:47 on a Friday afternoon, not because they know your plate number.
This makes you sound like an unbearable asshole.
Of course it is. The police are pulling over innocent people. When they figure out and then ask why they realize it's because flock misread the plate and flagged the vehicle based on that one data point alone.
Where you seem to be confused is the type of defect analysis you're talking about is possible but it's generally not done in real time. You have to have a specific target and then dedicate an immense amount of compute resources into locating it. This is not what you're fighting against.
There's hollywood and then there's reality. Let's work in reality.
You don't seem to understand the implications of stockpiling that level of data across such a huge swath of geography. I work closer to this stuff than the general public does and while I'm not ass deep in it, I see enough from the periphery in my office to recognize what can be done with a huge pile of data. Expanding those kinds of operations to sweep the general public for anomalous behavior and deviations from behavioral patterns...I don't want any part of that infrastructure built.
And what does that cost? And how often does it get used? And how many targets can it acquire and track in a day?
Okay. Then go cut poles down then. I tried to warn you.
Illegals are already doing this with temporary dealer plates just to get around paying annual registration and tolls.
They flag those. If those plates stay the same then the vehicle is traceable. You can either actively trace it or you can run a historical search.
The point here is: "fuck up their data." Make the data WRONG. Make it so when they go to use it they embarrass themselves in a public and devistating way.
They have a giant database. And they're letting you (effectively) put anything you want in it. Load it up with shit. That's the one asymmetric warfare tactic you reliably have available to you here.