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No one's career gets made by catching a car thief. Perhaps by busting a car theft operation but no one is going to get promoted for one car thief. I would susp
by LordKano 10y ago
No one's career gets made by catching a car thief.
Perhaps by busting a car theft operation but no one is going to get promoted for one car thief.
I would suspect that the hostility you felt from the officer was because you got your car back and no one was injured so there was no glory to be had in arresting the thief.
- 0xfeba 10y agoYup. Metric-driven results. The police, in my area, get rewarded for making arrests--not taking their time to find the actual culprit. So the two concerns overlap, sometimes.
- tombrossman 10y agoA few weeks after my car was stolen, another car appeared around the corner and looked to be abandoned (newer car, window left rolled down overnight for a few days) and I mentioned this to my mom. She's very community-minded and went and looked in the abandoned car. She found a letter inside the glove box with a name and looked the person up in the phone book. Nice old lady who confirmed it was her car and it had been stolen. We learned from this lady that our neighbor's meth head twentysomething son had a girlfriend who lived in the same neighborhood as she did - where my stolen car was abandoned. A lazy cop would call that one hell of a coincidence. A motivated cop would have made the effort and rid the neighborhood of a pest who had graduated from petty crime to multiple felonies. Just one example and honestly, what are the odds of all those pieces coming together, but it does show that selective enforcement isn't impressing anyone.