LOS ANGELES (CBS) — If you thought the patrol car in the 1987 action movie "Robocop" was high-tech, wait until you see what L.A.'s finest will be soon be driving. AOL's Translogic caught a sneak peek ...

"The plate reader would get you stuff you wouldn't normally be thinking about." An estimated 400 of the nation's 18,000 police agencies own at least one license plate scanner, and police officials ...

PHOENIX Officer David Callister was about to drive past the 1991 Nissan when an alert sounded inside his cruiser and an image of a license plate flashed on his laptop. It was a signal that the ...

Fountain Valley police are getting a mounted automated license plate reader to help find vehicles that are stolen or involved in other crimes. The reader, which resembles a red-light camera and uses ...