How police track your driving

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46. In a neighborhood where I used to live, we had an issue with Johns looking for sex workers

and accosting all the young women who walked or bicycled there. Some of them were in rather expensive cars.

Because the johns, and not the sex workers (who stayed on their corner) were the issue, we knew that telling the cops to chase away the women wasn't the solution.

A town councilwoman lived in the area, and she told us to write down the license plate numbers of those accosting us. She then took those plate # to the local police chief, who then sent postcards to the home address on those plates, warning them if there was another complaint from women in that neighborhood about him, they would issue him a citation.

The local press did a story on it, and boy did the harassment stop quickly.

Now - if the plate #s been caught on surveillance camera, rather than simply having us write the number, would that have been worse?