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AMBER Alerts: License plate readers in metro Atlanta were able to find a vehicle <br />containing a kidnapped one-year-old, who had been taken from his mother at <br />random off the street. The child was recovered unharmed. Some ALPR systems <br />integrate directly with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s <br />AMBER Alert system, sending real-time alerts to officers in seconds. [New <br />information released about 1-year-old’s kidnapping] <br />Silver Alerts: Knoxville Police were able to locate a missing elderly man who suffers <br />from dementia after he drove away in a family vehicle. ALPR technology has helped <br />solve hundreds of Silver Alerts across the country. [Missing man with dementia <br />found using Flock camera] <br />Firearm violence: The Las Vegas Trail, a high-crime area in Fort Worth, TX, saw <br />violent crime decrease by 22% in 2021 compared with the first nine months of 2019. <br />Fort Worth Police attributed this drop partially to the license plate reader system <br />implemented in the neighborhood during the same period of time. [Crime is down <br />22% in Fort Worth’s Las Vegas Trail. How neighbors and police made it safer] <br />Organized theft: Grafton, a growing village with a bustling retail district, is dealing <br />with increased organized retail theft — Two-thirds of all the crimes reported to <br />Grafton police in 2020 were retail thefts. Grafton Police have implemented a license <br />plate reader system to identify vehicles that have been involved in thefts or have <br />been stolen themselves. In one week alone, they recovered three stolen vehicles <br />with drivers planning to engage in retail theft. [Losses mount as retailers fight theft <br />rings, accuse online storefronts of doing little to stop resale of stolen goods] <br />ALPR Provides Objective Evidence While Protecting Privacy <br />ALPR does not include facial recognition capabilities and does not capture personally <br />identifiable information (PII). While eyewitnesses and individual officers are subject to <br />inherent human bias, ALPR cameras capture wholly-objective images of vehicles and <br />license plates, providing a clear and actionable investigative lead. <br />ALPR Use Cases Include: <br />Page 189 of 204