Pantego, Texas: Why are police in a North Texas city taking photos of people they pull over?

Why are police in a North Texas city taking photos of people they pull over?

Ian Pearce was driving to work early one morning in September 2021 when he spotted flashing police lights behind him. Pearce, who worked as an Arlington teacher at the time, realized he was absentmindedly speeding and pulled into a parking lot along Pioneer Parkway in Pantego. To his surprise, the officer let him go with a warning. But he was unsettled by what followed. “I’m just going to take your picture real quick,” Pearce recalled the officer saying, as he snapped his photo with an electronic ticket machine. The officer explained it was standard procedure. Police in Pantego — a ...

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