A push for license plate readers could bring back car inspections
“The fact we don’t have inspections creates all these other problems,” Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis said at a Memphis City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 24. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis says new license plate readers on the city’s interstate system won’t be able to read paper tags which she describes as a “prolific” problem on city streets.
The Memphis City Council passed a resolution Tuesday, June 24, supporting and requesting from the state a set of 94 cameras that read license plates on exit and entrance ramps on the city’s interstate system.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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