The Institute for Justice's analysis, published in late April and the subject of a 263-point Hacker News thread on May 1, identifies fourteen documented cases of US police officers using automated license-plate-reader networks to track romantic interests, ex-partners, or strangers they had personally fixed on. The bulk of the cases occurred since 2024. Most of the officers named in the analysis were criminally charged. Most lost their jobs by either resigning or being fired. The IJ analysis i...

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