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Why is there not CCTV there? CCTV + police follow-up and arrests made seems like a good way to combat this (serious, economically damaging) situation.

slig 5y ago
It's LA, they don't care.
BitwiseFool 5y ago
You need a District Attorney willing to actively go after these kinds of suspects. In my experience the police don't really do anything about thefts unless they happen to catch the perpetrator in the act. My family had our car stolen from our driveway and they did virtually nothing to try and recover it. In fact, the only reason why we got it back was because the tweaker who stole it managed to park it in a reserved stall on private property and it was towed. The police said they swept the car for evidence, but we found multiple prescription bottles with the suspect's name on it in easy to reach places. The cops obviously missed this and refused to accept it as evidence. We did a LexisNexus search of the name on the bottle and lo-and-behold, multiple priors for armed robbery and auto theft. No charges were ever filed against the person. So I have virtually no faith in security cameras. They do their jobs, but the DA certainly doesn't.
- swearwolf 5y ago
  I don’t necessarily disagree with you about the DA, but it seems like in your specific case the problem is more that the police themselves are acting indifferently.
MrBuddyCasino 5y ago
If you want video, here is one from the Chicago trainyard: https://twitter.com/ronmilnerboodle/status/1481777403252944896 https://twitter.com/ronmilnerboodle/status/14817774032529448... Its not that this is hard or impossible to solve.
icelancer 5y ago
CCTV in an age of universal and accepted mask-wearing is pretty ineffective. I have video of people breaking into my business and stealing five figures worth of goods a few years back with specific identification of them, forwarded to the police, who have done nothing with it. Non-violent crimes (specifically property damage or theft) just aren't prosecuted, especially on the west coast.

slig 5y ago

It's LA, they don't care.

BitwiseFool 5y ago

You need a District Attorney willing to actively go after these kinds of suspects. In my experience the police don't really do anything about thefts unless they happen to catch the perpetrator in the act. My family had our car stolen from our driveway and they did virtually nothing to try and recover it. In fact, the only reason why we got it back was because the tweaker who stole it managed to park it in a reserved stall on private property and it was towed. The police said they swept the car for evidence, but we found multiple prescription bottles with the suspect's name on it in easy to reach places. The cops obviously missed this and refused to accept it as evidence. We did a LexisNexus search of the name on the bottle and lo-and-behold, multiple priors for armed robbery and auto theft. No charges were ever filed against the person. So I have virtually no faith in security cameras. They do their jobs, but the DA certainly doesn't.

swearwolf 5y ago
I don’t necessarily disagree with you about the DA, but it seems like in your specific case the problem is more that the police themselves are acting indifferently.

MrBuddyCasino 5y ago

If you want video, here is one from the Chicago trainyard: https://twitter.com/ronmilnerboodle/status/1481777403252944896 https://twitter.com/ronmilnerboodle/status/14817774032529448... Its not that this is hard or impossible to solve.

icelancer 5y ago

CCTV in an age of universal and accepted mask-wearing is pretty ineffective. I have video of people breaking into my business and stealing five figures worth of goods a few years back with specific identification of them, forwarded to the police, who have done nothing with it. Non-violent crimes (specifically property damage or theft) just aren't prosecuted, especially on the west coast.