So, you make security cameras. You make automatic license plate readers aka “ALPR”. You then share this data with law enforcement.
Have you considered not being the absolute cheapest when making your products? Putting aside the moral, ethical, legal, security concerns, political landmines, systemic racism, misleading investors, the military industrial complex….
Why is it so cheap? You seriously couldn’t afford a embedded Linux guy? Spend a day writing up a Yocto file instead of stripping down a phone and shoving it in a plastic case? Are you seriously telling me that the lenses are so shitty that they need to zoom and pan in order to get a good shot of a license plate? Stop skimping on the image sensors.
You couldn’t afford a ladder, so you just stuck them to a pole in the ground at eye level? I know that “Eye in the sky” wasn’t a requirement, but eye level??? Is this pole is plastic? Black plastic…. in the sun. The rest of this city is painted in whites and greens not just for aesthetic purposes. Even the Cybertrucks get painted white. I know that you need to be “matte black” and “very gun” and “big lens” in order to sell when you are this cheap… it stands out because it looks ugly. It is going to melt in about half a year because you sacrificed functionality in order to pander to a blow-hard tacti-cool aesthetic, while doing it the cheapest way possible, by not paying engineers and going for “good enough, close enough”, and schmoozing on a golf course to get sales.
Unicorns don’t exist in the real world.