Others have brought up problems with this but another one is that companies get paid by police agencies to provide these data in response to records requests, they are incentivized to not rate-limit these responses.
How much are they paid? It seems unlikely that they get enough income to cover a department dedicated to this processing, let alone make significant money out of it.
Others have brought up problems with this but another one is that companies get paid by police agencies to provide these data in response to records requests, they are incentivized to not rate-limit these responses.