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The police in my country wouldn't even bother to check, they have rapists and drug dealers to deal with.

handrous 5y ago
Police in the US don't investigate any but very expensive property crime against individuals, either. And I don't actually know that they investigate very expensive property crime—I just assume they do. Certainly mid-five-figures of theft from multiple locations by one crew with tons of video evidence isn't enough to get them interested, beyond taking the report. ... unless your country is the US, in which case, yeah, true.
roywiggins 5y ago
Your police investigate rapes? Ours don't. https://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-misled-public-about-response-metoo-report/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-misled-public-about-response...
- gremloni 5y ago
  This comment could not be anymore hyperbolic.
  - roywiggins 5y ago
    Texas sat on untested rape kits for two decades https://www.texasobserver.org/activist-and-rape-survivor-lavinia-masters-on-the-battle-to-end-texas-rape-kit-backlog/ https://www.texasobserver.org/activist-and-rape-survivor-lav... It's getting a bit better, but it's still a problem: https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/texas-still-has-thousands-of-untested https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/texas-still-has-thousands-of-u...
rurp 5y ago
Yeah I'm baffled by all of the comments saying that this is great as an anti-theft feature. I don't know where people live that that's the case, but I sure as heck have never known police in the US to give a damn about $1000 property crimes. They don't care about $20000 home robberies and car thefts, even with strong video or other evidence. I can't imagine they're going to start chasing down criminals to get a used phone back unless it's for the mayor's kid or something.
- krrrh 5y ago
  That aside, there was a massive decrease in iPhone thefts when activation locking was introduced with the original “find my”. Something like this could further deter the portion of thefts that end up funnelling through shady resellers.
- sparker72678 5y ago
  It serves as anti-theft insofar as it makes it more of a pain generally to be in possession of a stolen phone. But yeah the police are not going to go get your iPhone back for you.
  - Fnoord 5y ago
    Lets not generalize, shall we? Police here in The Netherlands take care of stolen bikes. Its just a low success rate which skews our perception.
    - Talanes 5y ago
      And here in America, I got literally laughed at by my small-town police force as a teenager when I went to them with the exact house my stolen bike was sitting outside of.
      - Fnoord 5y ago
        The Dutch police want to avoid that civilians 'play their own judge'. If the perpetrator and/or stolen object can be positively ID'ed this is a big plus for the public prosecutor to give a go ahead. What can happen then, is that the police try to buy the stolen good, catching the perpetrator red handed. This is the most effective path of getting a case succesfully put to trial. However, it is going to differ per local jurisdiction. Some Dutch police do have man power issues as well, just like some of USA has. On a side note: I don't like the attitude of laughing at civilians/victims who the police officer is supposed to serve. Its a kind of negative attitude which devalues the victims interest (I don't like the word toxic but others would apply it here), eventually harming trust in police in the process which (long term) benefits criminals. And what I also don't like is when such is generalized on all police, all around the world. The way you were treated flat out sucks.
madeofpalk 5y ago
Yeah, I'm sure the police wouldn't check either. I'm sure it wouldn't help me get my phone back but (perhaps paradoxically?) I hope it at least is a bit of a deterrent.

Police in the US don't investigate any but very expensive property crime against individuals, either. And I don't actually know that they investigate very expensive property crime—I just assume they do. Certainly mid-five-figures of theft from multiple locations by one crew with tons of video evidence isn't enough to get them interested, beyond taking the report. ... unless your country is the US, in which case, yeah, true.

roywiggins 5y ago

Your police investigate rapes? Ours don't. https://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-misled-public-about-response-metoo-report/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/nypd-misled-public-about-response...

gremloni 5y ago
This comment could not be anymore hyperbolic.
- roywiggins 5y ago
  Texas sat on untested rape kits for two decades https://www.texasobserver.org/activist-and-rape-survivor-lavinia-masters-on-the-battle-to-end-texas-rape-kit-backlog/ https://www.texasobserver.org/activist-and-rape-survivor-lav... It's getting a bit better, but it's still a problem: https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/texas-still-has-thousands-of-untested https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/texas-still-has-thousands-of-u...

rurp 5y ago

Yeah I'm baffled by all of the comments saying that this is great as an anti-theft feature. I don't know where people live that that's the case, but I sure as heck have never known police in the US to give a damn about $1000 property crimes. They don't care about $20000 home robberies and car thefts, even with strong video or other evidence. I can't imagine they're going to start chasing down criminals to get a used phone back unless it's for the mayor's kid or something.

krrrh 5y ago
That aside, there was a massive decrease in iPhone thefts when activation locking was introduced with the original “find my”. Something like this could further deter the portion of thefts that end up funnelling through shady resellers.
sparker72678 5y ago
It serves as anti-theft insofar as it makes it more of a pain generally to be in possession of a stolen phone. But yeah the police are not going to go get your iPhone back for you.
- Fnoord 5y ago
  Lets not generalize, shall we? Police here in The Netherlands take care of stolen bikes. Its just a low success rate which skews our perception.
  - Talanes 5y ago
    And here in America, I got literally laughed at by my small-town police force as a teenager when I went to them with the exact house my stolen bike was sitting outside of.
    - Fnoord 5y ago
      The Dutch police want to avoid that civilians 'play their own judge'. If the perpetrator and/or stolen object can be positively ID'ed this is a big plus for the public prosecutor to give a go ahead. What can happen then, is that the police try to buy the stolen good, catching the perpetrator red handed. This is the most effective path of getting a case succesfully put to trial. However, it is going to differ per local jurisdiction. Some Dutch police do have man power issues as well, just like some of USA has. On a side note: I don't like the attitude of laughing at civilians/victims who the police officer is supposed to serve. Its a kind of negative attitude which devalues the victims interest (I don't like the word toxic but others would apply it here), eventually harming trust in police in the process which (long term) benefits criminals. And what I also don't like is when such is generalized on all police, all around the world. The way you were treated flat out sucks.

madeofpalk 5y ago

Yeah, I'm sure the police wouldn't check either. I'm sure it wouldn't help me get my phone back but (perhaps paradoxically?) I hope it at least is a bit of a deterrent.