What are ghost cars? I mean, it sounds cool, but what is the definition of a ghost car and why should we care?
A ghost car is any vehicle with an altered or missing license plate, this includes motorcycles. So why call it a ghost car? Well, because that makes it untraceable from traffic cameras and license plate scanners. This means they can slip by tollbooths and speed cameras but more serious crimes as well. Shootings and robberies often involve ghost cars.
New York City seems to have the biggest problem with ghost cars and the most interesting solution. They find them and they just destroy them.
According to msn.com,‘New York City mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has taken over 100,000 illegal ‘ghost vehicles’ off the streets since he took office — a numberthat includes more than 38,000 cars. As a celebration of this milestone, the city crushed hundreds of seized illegal two-wheeled vehicles with a bulldozer at a New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) facility.’
The problem was so serious in New York City that Mayor Eric Adams created a special task force to work on the problem…