A look at local US governments' use of Automatic License Plate Recognition startups, like Rekor and Flock, that claim to spot "suspicious" movement patterns (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:

A look at local US governments’ use of Automatic License Plate Recognition startups, like Rekor and Flock, that claim to spot “suspicious” movement patterns  —  Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records.