License plate recognition technology can do much more than read license plates thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence — and law enforcement reaps the benefits.

By Adrienne Zimmer on Officer.com

License plate recognition (LPR) technology has advanced leaps and bounds compared to when it was first released two decades ago. LPR technology has seen an increase in operational efficiency, moving from manual LPRs to automatic LPRs (ALPR) that can, as the name says, automatically alert law enforcement of a suspect [...]