Plate Scanners
Show #1402

Electronic surveillance. It's a fact of modern life. Most New Jersey cities are now looking to street cameras as a way to fight crime. And a half dozen of the state's suburban towns are employing high tech license plate scanners as a way to catch scofflaws and raise revenues. Effective ways to combat crime ... or a threat to our privacy? Sandra King takes those questions out to the street in an opening mini doc, while, in the studio, Raymond Brown sorts it out with Criminologist Tom Nestel, privacy law expert Anita Allen and Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy.