{"id":492875,"date":"2026-10-11T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492875\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:08:08","slug":"even-with-security-cameras-criminals-find-ways-to-cheat-the-system-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/492875\/","title":{"rendered":"Even with security cameras, criminals find ways to cheat the system \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego sued over police use of Flock cameras\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/09\/30\/san-diego-sued-over-police-use-of-automated-license-plate-readers\/?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 1<\/a>): I understand the privacy issues, but the opposing view is that surveillance takes place in a public place (apparently solely during daylight), creating a need for the public to police these systems and prevent unlawful abuses.<\/p>\n<p>I raise a third perspective: the reality that cheats, kooks and idiots engage in systemic violation of the law that requires automobiles to display front license plates, perhaps representing 40% of traffic, which thus evades surveillance as well as toll collection and responsible policing. When will there be reporting on this issue?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Burns, Ocean Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego sued over police use of Flock cameras\u201d (Oct. 1): I understand the privacy issues, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-492875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}