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I think late 2014/early 2015 I had my first iPhone stolen when playing soccer with some bros in a local park. We were able to use Find My iPhone to track it to

I think late 2014/early 2015 I had my first iPhone stolen when playing soccer with some bros in a local park. We were able to use Find My iPhone to track it to a specific address. Went to the local police station, filed a report, and they told me candidly that they'd probably never find it and that they wouldn't go to the house. So another guy who also had his phone stolen and I went to the house and called police to let them know that we were about to knock on their door. About 4 squad cars showed up almost immediately. A man answered the door and we explained that our phones went missing and we tracked them to that address. He yelled for his kid who apparently had a history of trouble. The kid denied it at first but his dad(?) gave him a talking to and we got our phones back an hour or so later. We did not press charges.

ep103 4y ago
Yeah, this sounds like the police just not wanting to do work. I convinced my fiancé to go to the NYPD a year ago (a difficult thing, she was born in a country where all interactions with police are inherently unsafe), after her macbook was stolen during a facebook marketplace sale. (She used venmo, they disputed after the meeting, and kept the money and laptop). She went to the police with the person's identity, facebook page, venmo account, a witness, a statement from venmo, and a recording of the transaction from a security camera, and the police said they couldn't do anything, spent the next 6 months dodging her phone calls, and only once called her back, but did so in order to go on a racist tirade about the unrelated BLM protests that were going on at the time (?!?) The United States so badly needs nationally legislated minimum standards for police.
14 4y ago
Got lucky that the dad realized it is much better to give the phone back vs have his windows smashed out with a rock once a month for the end of time in the night. I don’t condone damaging people’s stuff but in my city there is a lot of vigilantism talk and I imagine rocks would probably be the least of worries. I have seen it here where a known thief had his car lit on fire. Another guy was hog tied and beat up on Facebook live. My point is some people are crazy and I would think people once found out they were caught would just return the items vs risk being revenge attacked. But then again criminals are not that smart.

ep103 4y ago

Yeah, this sounds like the police just not wanting to do work. I convinced my fiancé to go to the NYPD a year ago (a difficult thing, she was born in a country where all interactions with police are inherently unsafe), after her macbook was stolen during a facebook marketplace sale. (She used venmo, they disputed after the meeting, and kept the money and laptop). She went to the police with the person's identity, facebook page, venmo account, a witness, a statement from venmo, and a recording of the transaction from a security camera, and the police said they couldn't do anything, spent the next 6 months dodging her phone calls, and only once called her back, but did so in order to go on a racist tirade about the unrelated BLM protests that were going on at the time (?!?) The United States so badly needs nationally legislated minimum standards for police.

14 4y ago

Got lucky that the dad realized it is much better to give the phone back vs have his windows smashed out with a rock once a month for the end of time in the night. I don’t condone damaging people’s stuff but in my city there is a lot of vigilantism talk and I imagine rocks would probably be the least of worries. I have seen it here where a known thief had his car lit on fire. Another guy was hog tied and beat up on Facebook live. My point is some people are crazy and I would think people once found out they were caught would just return the items vs risk being revenge attacked. But then again criminals are not that smart.