Front license plates can help cops

Q. I used to talk with you when I was at the California Highway Patrol’s headquarters in Sacramento. Last week, you had an item about how some vehicles don’t have front license plates. Well, one likely objection to doing away with them for some people is that the CHP and some police departments have a device on the dashboard of their patrol cars that can read license plates of even on-coming vehicles. The plate number is instantly matched against a computer list of vehicles reported