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   Engineer builds DIY ALPR rig to track police cars; police visit his home

   Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli said two officers from Ontario's Peel Regional Police visited his home on September 20 to ask why he built a surveillance device aimed at tracking police vehicles. The prototype uses an roughly $180 camera and automated license plate recognition (ALPR): image recognition first decides whether a vehicle is a police car, and only then tries to read its plate, with AI coding tools used in development and the pipeline split into two stages to cut the compute load. Sistilli said the results were limited — a one-hour test produced only two police-car images, with plates hard to read — making it a proof-of-concept rather than a working tracking system, while police raised concerns that continuously collecting where and when patrol cars appear could reveal officers' routines.

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