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n-the-move
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Congrates! Impressive technology.
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John, congrats! I guess I am supportive of the technology and how it is
being used, mostly because I have nothing to hide from any law enforcement
agency (so far <g>). I wonder how it must feel to be buzzing around with a
patrol car equipped with that unit and hearing the system firing off an
audio alert with nearly every car on the road that is being scanned.
Heh-heh.
The reason that comes to mind is because the other year while being
"interrogated" during a jury selection process all potential jurors had to
disclose any past criminal convictions, other than parking violations. I
was pretty surprised by the number of folks that looked perfectly normal
otherwise that stated their past misdeeds. A lot of aggravated assault and
battery convictions, some forgery, some burglary. I was not selected to
serve on the jury, I suppose because I had no convictions other than traffic
tickets. I did not represent a group of peers I guess, as I had no serious
convictions <g>.
Gil
Hey there John,
I second your Congratulations! Although - I'm surprised that you would
include in the Subject the title of "[NF] Sorta". That ROCKS to know
that a VFP application is being used like this - and catching criminals.
The article was VERY interesting - and I was happy to see that the
SW/System is even being entered into a competition! You should be proud
of yourself and your accomplishment. I've never had my name written up
in a news article - as it relates to SW development.
So - I am curious - what part did VFP play? Is it actually running in
the Units within the Cars - the actual scanners? Did you pair it up with
any other technologies?
-K-
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John: Very impressive!!! Great innovation!
Jeff
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VFP is doing the data work. The system (LPR) reads the tag, converts the
image to text, and stores it in a SQLExpress table, which includes lat/lon
and datetime. Once I saw that, well the rest was easy. I have the program
asynchronously download the county's motor vehicle records and I check for
matching tags. If I find one, I check to see if the tag is expired. If it
is, I change the color of the button and play a wav file for that event.
After I get a match, everything else is based on the mvr address, with some
tweaks, like warrants have two different sounds. If only addresses match,
that is a hammer hitting an anvil, if the addresses AND the last names
match, I play a siren, because that is a higher probability stop. We also
download stolen vehicle info once a day from the FBI, which is part of the
off the shelf system. I've tweaked that too though, so we pull our own
stolen vehicle data every 30 minutes. XML is a wonderful thing!
Next year, we hope to include facial recognition into the system. They won't
let me add a microwave, even though it would be a great non-lethal device
for crowd control! (just kidding)
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I thought y'all might find one of our LPR arrests interesting. The arrest
was all precipitated on an expired tag.
On 02/28/10 at 11:38 hours, officer(s) C Leatherwood (11329) and W Horn
(2671) initiated a traffic stop at Cleveland/Galloway and Compl:
Leatherwood, Cory advised While on routine patrol on 02/28/10 Ofc C
Leatherwood (11329) car 446B observed a positive hit on p#4498's LPR system
for expired tags on TN plate 629XXX registered to a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix.
Ofc observed a silver Pontiac Grand Prix bearing TN 629XXX driving w/b Union
in which the tag displayed a 2010 orange sticker. Ofc initiated a traffic
stop with blue lights only on the Krystal's parking lot near Union/Cleveland
and asked dispatcher for a QV and registration on the tag. While ofc was
waiting for the dispatcher's response Def pulled through the Krystal's
parking and turned s/b Pine, At this point, Def was not fleeing Ofc, he just
had not pulled over to the curb. As ofc pulled on to Pine and got behind the
vehicle, def disregarded the stop sign at Pine/Eastmoreland continuing s/b
on Pine at no more than the posted speed limit. Def turned w/b on Vance then
n/b on Cleveland and at this time ofc initiated the siren and advised
dispatch def was refusing to stop. As Def turned n/b Cleveland, he
increased his speed. As ofc made the n/b turn onto cleveland, def was
observed diregarding the red light at cleveland/Union. Ofc observed that
there was minimal vehicle and pedestian traffic and continued to follow the
vehicle at a safe distance waiting for a response from dispatch. Def
continued n/b Cleveland gaining distance between himself and ofc. Def
continued n/b Cleveland and crossed Poplar. Ofc approached Cleveland/Poplar
with emergency equipment on to clear the intersection and prevent any
accidents. After clearing the intersection, ofc turned the emergency siren
off and lost sight of the vehicle. Ofc continued n/b Cleveland at the posted
speed limit. As ofc approached Cleveland/ Galloway, ofc observed that def
had wrecked his vehicle into another vehicle (refer to traffic report). By
the time ofc observed the accident, Def had exited the vehicle and was
running on foot n/b Cleveland. At this time ofc reinitiated the emergency
siren to clear traffic and alert citizens then pursued def on foot. During
foot pursuit, def became intangled in a barbed wire fence on the lot of a
store on the northeast corner of Cleveland/Galloway in which ofc was able to
get def into custody. Def sustained several cuts to his arms and hands from
the barbed wire. Ofc found a small clear baggie of a green substance
appearing to be marijuana and a clear glass pipe used to smoke crack cocaine
on the ground in the immediate area. During a pat down of the def, ofc found
copper packing (chorboy) commonly used to smoke crack cocaine and $430 cash
in various denominations in his front right pocket. Def was also found to
have 3 felony warrants per Station B and was on parole for Robbery. Def was
arrested for above offenses and transported to The Med non-critical by MFD
Unit 20 for medical attention. 426B Horn (2671) and Donovan (12028) made the
scene at the Med in which def advised Dr. John Nelson that he had recently
used marijuana and cocaine. At that point, a whiskey unit was called for and
W23 Ortega (6467) made the scene and def submitted to a blood draw. 480 N
Russell (11411) tested and tagged the def property (marijuana, copper
packing, glass pipe, and $430 cash) in which the green substance tested
positive for marijuana weighing 2.41g. STIS made the scene of the accident
and took a report.
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BTW, I sure hope you are receiving a recurring license/maintenance fee for
your creation. If not for Memphis PD then for new clients. I can see where
your legs could be trembling with excitement at the thought of even only 1%
of law enforcement agencies getting into your system. Now to beat the
competition. VFP as a back end is a good start <g>...
FWIW, I am still using VFP (v-9 SP1) for some of my commercial service apps,
and a nice mix with PostgreSQL where I need some scaling. It all seems to
work well enough, and the processes I run are on my own machines - so no
need for me to chase new OS platforms with client PCs. Most of my
commercial service apps run on a Win 2000 Pro SP4 platform under a bank of
VMware virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi equipped Servers. It kicks
ass. But, it pales in comparison to the technical accomplishments John
pulled off with his license plate scanning app.
John, congrats again. Words can't begin to express how impressed I am, with
the concept alone much less the technical accomplishment.
Gil
Hey John,
Reading about this arrest situation - and learning about your technology
- you really made my day! Not only did you prove that VFP can still kick
Butt - you proved you can ALSO use it to kick the Butt criminals!
Touche!!!
And, its all especially enlightening after some recent threads about VFP
on its way out and other suggesting that people should go find new
technology to work with - since VFP is dying. It still may be true that
its dying - but, you proved It Aint Dead YET!
:-)
-K-
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I thought y'all might find one of our LPR arrests interesting. The
arrest
was all precipitated on an expired tag.
On 02/28/10 at 11:38 hours, officer(s) C Leatherwood (11329) and W Horn
(2671) initiated a traffic stop at Cleveland/Galloway and Compl:
Leatherwood, Cory advised While on routine patrol on 02/28/10 Ofc C
Leatherwood (11329) car 446B observed a positive hit on p#4498's LPR
system
for expired tags on TN plate 629XXX...
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On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM, John <john.harvey@shelbynet.com> wrote:
> I thought y'all might find one of our LPR arrests interesting. The arrest
> was all precipitated on an expired tag.
>
> On 02/28/10 at 11:38 hours, officer(s) C Leatherwood (11329) and W Horn
> (2671) initiated a traffic stop at Cleveland/Galloway and Compl:
> Leatherwood, Cory advised While on routine patrol on 02/28/10 Ofc C
> Leatherwood (11329) car 446B observed a positive hit on p#4498's LPR system
> for expired tags on TN plate 629XXX registered to a 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix.
> Ofc observed a silver Pontiac Grand Prix bearing TN 629XXX driving w/b Union
> in which the tag displayed a 2010 orange sticker. Ofc initiated a traffic
> stop with blue lights only on the Krystal's parking lot near Union/Cleveland
> and asked dispatcher for a QV and registration on the tag. While ofc was
> waiting for the dispatcher's response Def pulled through the Krystal's
> parking and turned s/b Pine, At this point, Def was not fleeing Ofc, he just
> had not pulled over to the curb. As ofc pulled on to Pine and got behind the
> vehicle, def disregarded the stop sign at Pine/Eastmoreland continuing s/b
> on Pine at no more than the posted speed limit. Def turned w/b on Vance then
> n/b on Cleveland and at this time ofc initiated the siren and advised
> dispatch def was refusing to stop.