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Bay Area governments like vehicle burglaries. It's seen as a form of stimulus. Stolen items generally result in replacement purchases, generating economic act
by masonic 5y ago
Bay Area governments like vehicle burglaries. It's seen as a form of stimulus. Stolen items generally result in replacement purchases, generating economic activity and state and local sales taxes (even Amazon, eBay, and other shipped purchases).
There are many oft-hit locations that would be easy to use bait cars and have minimal exit points, allowing the sealing off of escape routes. But law enforcement agencies (local or state) won't try.
Meanwhile, they are using local LEOs for things like Sobriety Checkpoints.
- quantified 5y agoInteresting, not entirely implausible. Similar stimulus to auto repair on the East Coast from bad road paving, and future road repair from faulty repaving. Any evidence, even anecdotal?
- DrScump 5y agoJust an anecdote: when my rental SUV was broken into in Sunnyvale a couple of years ago, when I called it in to DPS, the dispatcher literally laughed at me and said, "yeah, we get break-ins in that lot every day!" For locals, this was the lot by St. John's. It's a retail strip with parking on one side, with only two entrances/exits to its private roadway. It would be trivial to use a bait vehicle and block both exits completely out of sight from most of that main lot. It's never been tried, to my knowledge (nothing in the media or social media to that effect).