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The amount of property theft and stolen cars in particular in both Canada and the US it's unfathomable. We are talking billions upon billions every year and onl

The amount of property theft and stolen cars in particular in both Canada and the US it's unfathomable. We are talking billions upon billions every year and only a fraction is recovered in a decent state. Many are trashed, dismantled or "exported" like this particular case. Let's not forget all of this is being paid by those who pay insurance of course, which due to many factors, premiums have sky rocketed in recent years. With a few exceptions, there has been a general apathy in actually really fighting this type of crime. Most DAs don't really go any extra mile, the judges tend to view these cases as "some kids being dumb", the police use all of this and say "our hands are tied" but in reality the only thing "new" is how society looks and responds at this, because this type of crime and these criminal organizations always existed in some aspect of another.

mistrial9 3y ago
no there is not general apathy here in California. What is happening is always-on vehicle tracking on new car models, and constant bridge and tollway license plate readers. .. approved by a certain current California Governor and a very large security bureaucracy. It appears to me that the new order is the worst of both worlds -- cars constantly stolen and also ordinary citizens tracked constantly with an interface to surveillance capitalism.
- PedroBatista 3y ago
  Having license plate readers does not classify as "not general apathy". Every sizable city has one and they are as good as the database of stolens and how many times they are actually active and deployed, ie. police cruising the roads less traveled. Plus if they found a stolen in the street, they just recover it. Generally speaking they don't wait for someone to get into the car and arrest them, and in most cases police is not allowed to put a tracker on the stolen EVEN with the owner's consent. Also many thieves swap plates now. A plate reader is just a tool, just having one doesn't make the police department pro-active by itself.

mistrial9 3y ago

no there is not general apathy here in California. What is happening is always-on vehicle tracking on new car models, and constant bridge and tollway license plate readers. .. approved by a certain current California Governor and a very large security bureaucracy. It appears to me that the new order is the worst of both worlds -- cars constantly stolen and also ordinary citizens tracked constantly with an interface to surveillance capitalism.

PedroBatista 3y ago
Having license plate readers does not classify as "not general apathy". Every sizable city has one and they are as good as the database of stolens and how many times they are actually active and deployed, ie. police cruising the roads less traveled. Plus if they found a stolen in the street, they just recover it. Generally speaking they don't wait for someone to get into the car and arrest them, and in most cases police is not allowed to put a tracker on the stolen EVEN with the owner's consent. Also many thieves swap plates now. A plate reader is just a tool, just having one doesn't make the police department pro-active by itself.