Despite scanning millions of cars every year, the average police department in the US only match a license plate with a car they’re looking for 0.5 percent of the time, according to a new cache of data on the use of automated license plate readers. Police agencies across the country have been tracking the license plates of millions of drivers for years, but few people realize how widely police departments share this data, and how rarely it’s actually useful.

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