Dear Members of the Urbana City Council:

As citizens of Urbana who are concerned about the exponential increase of gun violence and retaliatory shootings in our city, we support Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) for the following reasons:

1) ALPRs are an investigative tool that can help identify vehicles involved in shootings and other crimes.

2) ALPRs provide information that witnesses and victims are unable, unwilling, or afraid to provide.

3) ALPRs improve county-wide collaboration across jurisdictions to solve shootings and other crimes.

4) ALPRs remove human error and bias from vehicle identification.

5) ALPRs are cost-effective and can be strategically deployed.

6) ALPRs data is owned and protected by the City.

7) ALPRs can help disrupt the pattern of retaliatory shootings that has traumatized families and neighborhoods in recent years.

Thank you for your time, service, and consideration.

Sincerely,

Urbana Citizens