of aclr) of all violators. "it's not always stolen cars. scofflfl violators, as we caca them, which are habitual pararrs and things like that." "rain or shine, day or night, whether a car is moving or stopped, the license plate readers are always recording information. that's why parking lots are popular spots fofopatrolling officersrs "i'll l to several apartment complexes where we found stolen cars before and just go through there and read all those cars sitting through there. not all the time obviously, but a lot of the time we'll see one sitting there. sometimes it's just out in the middle of nowhere, but sometimes it's just out in plain site in a parking lot with a lot of other cars." but as anyone who deals with technology knows -- computers are not perfect. "sometimes it'll read a plate out of iowa, and it'll say it's stolen out of a different state." the technology has been part of the des moines police department for nearly three years, two years in sioux city, it's coming to cedar rapids in the coming months, dubuque police say th