I agree.CWOOD wrote:I am mildly against this.
In a former life long ago and not so far away I was a Texas State Trooper.
The front license plate can be useful to patrol officers. Especially in the night time it can assist in correctly identifying a vehicle which you have encountered traveling in an opposite direction and for some reason have determined that there was a need to turn, pursue and make contact.
It could be a stolen, warrant, Amber alert vehicle, or it might have had indications of DWI such as crossing the center line or fail to dim headlights. Officers can often see and recall the plate number, or at least a partial, and if you are at night and turn to make contact, it is much easier to get the 'right' one out of a string of vehicles if you have that bit of information.
For what it is worth.
A front plate isn't critical to law enforcement, but it is pretty useful for accurately identifying vehicles in a number of situations, e.g. fleeing suspects and surveillances.
You don't always get to pick a spot to watch from that has a good angle for reading the rear tags. At other times you are positioned so you have an adequate amount of time to read an approaching tag on the front, but only a moment to get a look at the departing tag due to turns, shrubbery, etc.
I recognize that there are associated costs and inconvenience involved, and I won't cry whichever way things go, but from an LE perspective I'd like to see the front tag remain as a requirement.