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Only takes a couple of hours to chop a car down to enough parts to make it hard to find. Thieves aren't dumb -- I mean, plenty of them are, but plenty of them
by blaser-waffle 7y ago
Only takes a couple of hours to chop a car down to enough parts to make it hard to find.
Thieves aren't dumb -- I mean, plenty of them are, but plenty of them are smart enough to also know there are tracking devices in common consumer vehicles. Give them enough time and they can find and remove or disable such trackers.
OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.
- beerandt 7y agoMaybe, but that's more of an argument against hypothetical police inefficiency than anything else.
- catach 7y agoI expect reforming the justice system might take too long as well.
- mlyle 7y agoI don't think it's unreasonable for getting a warrant to take a couple of hours. We want judges to be able to think at least a little about each of their cases.
- beerandt 7y agoI don't think that's the usual cause of the delay, though. And for time critical issues like this, it shouldn't be.
- dylan604 7y ago>OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on. Can you get a police response in time to move on that information? In the world of police response priorities, I can totally understand that a stolen vehicle (even with active tracking in progress) pretty low on the list. Active car jacking, send a unit to respond. Reporting a car theft from a shopping mall parking lot, send a unit when available.
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