Replying in a separate comment, since you seem to have responded to my reply by editing your comment.

If you can’t disagree without belittling, maybe stick to reddit?

Either way, a networked array of license plate readers is an issue because it’s low friction and easily abused, with little space for oversight. A non-networked setup? Yeah i’m ok with that. If the gov needs to physically go to each camera and load data off them? Sounds fine to me. But somehow i don’t think that’s what you are suggesting when you say “non-cloud”. Once it’s networked, it doesn’t really matter if the network is a “cloud” based one or not.

But also, most of my comment was actually directed at alex43578‘s remarks, not yours.