A license to send a warning letter?
(Credit: ClickOrlando Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Please imagine that your live-in lover goes to get the mail and sees a letter.
She opens the letter and discovers images of your car and a warning. The letter insists that your car has been seen loitering with intent to solicit a prostitute and that you should never, ever, ever do it again.
Who has sent this letter? A concerned citizen? A former jealous lover? No, your local police force.
This is the scheme now illuminating the lives of the people of Sanford, Fla.
As ClickOrlando reports, the police have decided that they will use special license-plate-reading cameras to, as it were, name and supposedly shame so-called johns.
These are the (often) men who drive by slowly and sometimes repeatedly in the attempt to find a pay-for-pleasure arrangement.
Some might imagine that the police’s wheeze has some kinks.
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