license plate scanning, no-warrant arrests ('terror'), gov. IDs (yes it's out in public now), searches w/o warrants ('terror'), taps without any cause and the list goes on....
sounds like the United States Socialist Republic (USSR)
It is easy to make a license plate read differently unless inspected very closely.
Sales of magnetic plates, in the black market, will go up.
This is how you stop car theft:
Park desireable cars and have a sniper in the tree focused on it. Suspect gets into car and sniper takes the fucker out. Quality of gene pool increases while crime rate and insurance rates decrease.