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Police aren't going to follow every automated truck on the road. And a balance has to be found or PDs will ignore shipping companies. Too many false alarms; the
by yardie 9y ago
Police aren't going to follow every automated truck on the road. And a balance has to be found or PDs will ignore shipping companies. Too many false alarms; they stop responding.
So by the time a truck is stopped, realizes a robbery is in progress, contacts command, who assesses if it's a real event, who contact local police, who send a cruiser to check investigate. They thiefs could have gotten away with quite a lot.
Btw, a grand theft rarely rises to immediate action. City PD have bigger concerns, most of the Midwest is sparsely populated. That leaves the bored suburb PD who'll be in the most responsive.
- smileysteve 9y agoWhat is it that you think the current person involved's course of action? Are you suggesting that the person in a truck regularly defends its load from piracy today? 2 aspects 1) If drivers are at such danger that they do more than contact police then the liability would require they have trained security with them. 2) Drivers themselves are a major security vulnerability, how susceptible is a driver to being paid off by a "pirate". [and there was a recent article in Outside about how healthy nuts go through a lot of truck theft]
- yardie 9y agoA driver calls 911 and is immediately routed to the local PD. Do remember a robbery (a person) has a higher priority than theft (just property)