Judge Gives Man 60 Years In Prison For Driving With Suspended License

[Heeeeers Johnny]

104. Actually, they do have some high-tech scanner (sort of)

Automatic License Plate Reader/Recognition cameras can return all sorts of data regarding a vehicle and or
the owner of the vehicle...

In the United States, ANPR systems are more commonly referred to as ALPR (Automatic License Plate Reader/Recognition) technology, due to differences in language (i.e., "number plates" are referred to as "license plates" in American English)

Mobile ANPR use is widespread among US law enforcement agencies at the city, county, state and federal level. According to a 2012 report by the Police Executive Research Forum, approximately 71% of all US police departments use some form of ANPR.[33] Mobile ANPR is becoming a significant component of municipal predictive policing strategies and intelligence gathering,[34] as well as for recovery of stolen vehicles, identification of wanted felons, and revenue collection from individuals who are delinquent on city or state taxes or fines, or monitoring for "Amber Alerts". Successfully recognized plates may be matched against databases including "wanted person", "protection order", missing person, gang member, known and suspected terrorist, supervised release, immigration violator, and National Sex Offender lists.[35] In addition to the real-time processing of license plate numbers, ALPR systems in the US collect (and can indefinitely store) data from each license plate capture. Images, dates, times and GPS coordinates can be stockpiled and can help place a suspect at a scene, aid in witness identification, pattern recognition or the tracking of individuals.

An early, private sector mobile ANPR application has been applications for vehicle repossession and recovery[36]), although the application of ANPR by private companies to collect information from privately owned vehicles or collected from private property (for example, driveways) has become an issue of sensitivity and public debate.[37] Other ALPR uses include parking enforcement, and revenue collection from individuals who are delinquent on city or state taxes or fines. The technology is often featured in the reality TV show Parking Wars featured on A&E Network. In the show, tow truck drivers and booting teams use the ALPR to find delinquent vehicles with high amounts of unpaid parking fines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition#United_States

I have no idea if that's what happened in this case, but the point is that all it takes is a second or two for a
cop to see any pending warrants, infractions, suspensions, non-payment, etc.

Some scary stuff for anyone, criminal or not.