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We had a stolen Porsche here in Seattle about a half a year ago, the SPD broke off its chase because of restrictive state liability rules, the kids who stole th
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
We had a stolen Porsche here in Seattle about a half a year ago, the SPD broke off its chase because of restrictive state liability rules, the kids who stole the car later went to Costco to grab purses and killed a woman (the kids were refugees, one was caught, one fled back to their home country, the woman was also a foreign national). I wonder how many murders would be prevented by more aggressive policing of stolen cars, or even just goin after people with outstanding warrants. The bar for progress is incredibly low right now.
- tptacek 2y agoUnderstand: we are policing stolen cars. I have been a broken record about stolen cars as a driver for escalating violent crime (search [kia by:tptacek]). What we're not doing is driving automatic enforcement off the Illinois stolen car hotlist, because: it doesn't work. We tried it. The false positive rate was enormous.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoWe really need an identifier that can’t easily be rendered useless by plate swapping, like a transponder that can’t be tampered with very easily. We could totally get the false positive rate down, but not with pointless license plate tech that is already outdated.