Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here

the goal is to institutionalise everyone and since to err is to be human, a panoptic survielence system will be there to catch, and dehumanise them, one by one

Mission creep? Being able to dial up the revenue with a few keystrokes with plausible deniability from behind a desk somewhere was always if not the end goal a perfectly acceptable end state in the minds of the peddlers of these systems.