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>>colawa+(OP)
Or you could just not give them millions upon millions of dollars to buy all this military crap in the first place.

>>dflock+eh
You can do ALPR at a decent level with $100 of hardware. The cost of doing surveillance isn't necessarily going to be a lot

>>Rebelg+Hl
Plus a good amount of technical know-how and ops work, which is only free if you're a hobbyist building a proof of concept. If you're the actual NYPD and you want it to work accurately and reliably in prod, you need budget for either in-house tech talent or a company that will do it for you.