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Thankfully you were in Switzerland rather than the states, I just never see American police caring about that.
by seanmcdirmid 9mo ago
Thankfully you were in Switzerland rather than the states, I just never see American police caring about that.
- metadat 9mo agoThe police in Spain will also not care, in my experience. They acted completely helpless regardless of how much information I gave them. My solution now is to travel very light.
- ifwinterco 9mo agoSwitzerland is the Singapore of Europe (I mean this in a good way!) - the state just functions in a way that other European countries can only dream of
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoI spent a couple of years in Lausanne so am aware. Swiss police don't mess around, you need to follow the rules if you want to live there.
- ornornor 9mo agoCan confirm. Things just work in Switzerland. It’s a tough change to live/go back elsewhere.
- justinator 9mo ago> the state just functions in a way that other European countries can only dream of affording being able to I have fixed that for you.
- nairboon 9mo agoThat affordability is closely related with fiscal policy...
- kakacik 9mo agoAnd morality and their conscientiousness (what a word). If you look at the map of Europe, lay it over with that fiscal discipline and above, there is no mystery how things like income are spread out across the map, it all makes sense. Also a good confirmation that well regulated but proper capitalism is the easiest path for any country to long term prosperity.
- ifwinterco 9mo agoPublic spending per capita in switzerland is less than the UK
- plingamp 9mo agoMy car got broken into in Oakland, California. Multiple pieces of luggage stolen (yes, my fault for leaving it in the car in the first place). Luckily I had an AirTag that showed the exact location of the stolen items. I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything. Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in. Regardless, I was put on a waiting list, they finally called me back 3 days later. I promptly left the state a few months later.
- gruez 9mo ago>Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in. I mean, isn't that good? 4th amendment, warrants from a judge, and all that.
- cbolton 9mo agoPresumably they could easily get a warrant with that information, if they cared to ask.
- trillic 9mo agoVictim meets with police, signs affidavit, prosecutor goes to judge with affidavit, warrant written specifically for those items only. Should be simple and even digital if we wanted it to be.
- wildzzz 9mo agoAn airtag alone will never be enough for a search warrant. They are not accurate enough and don't prove any actual crime was committed (maybe someone found your looted backpack in the trash). If there was security camera footage of the theft or you knew the thief and the cops could verify where they lived, that could likely be enough.
- jasonfarnon 9mo agoI guess the question would be how easy it is to fake this evidence. I don't know this tech. Could I throw my airtags in someone's bag and just take that to the police station and say look here on my phone, that's where my bags are, and then it's a he said/she said? Then the airtags aren't really adding anything to just your word "they took my bag".
- alexjplant 9mo agoDepends on the jurisdiction. One time I was driving down a twoo-lane road with a police car a few hundred feet behind me. An oncoming pickup truck veered several feet over the center line and almost hit me. I flagged the police down to tell them and they were nonplussed even though they literally saw it happen. Drunk driving, a greater threat than property theft, was of little consequence to them. On the other side of the country my motorcycle got stolen and the police found it the next day. I picked it up from the tow yard shortly thereafter. YMMV.
- hshdhdhj4444 9mo agoAmerica is weirdly nonplussed by destruction and deaths caused by a car.
- watersb 9mo ago[flagged]
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- justinator 9mo agocheckmate, Airtag on my bicycle.
- spike021 9mo agoUnrelated to airtags but last year a couple wheels were stolen off my brand new car. My city in California falls under county sheriff jurisdiction and they actually assigned a detective to the case. Sadly even once he got the subpoena and other paperwork to track down the criminals through Facebook (they had listed my wheels two weeks later on Marketplace) he couldn't find them since they were using VPNs.
- jules 9mo agoI was robbed at a gas station in Jersey City and the police retrieved the airtagged backpack in 20 minutes. The police was fantastic.
- secalex 9mo agoMy friend/colleague had her phone stolen while she was napping in the hospital room of her terminally ill husband. Fortunately it had MDM. Called Palo Alto PD, I sat with them and tracked it from the hotel and it was already in San Jose. They worked with SJPD live and walked them into the guy who happened to be in a parking garage peering into cars. Caught him with a backpack full of stolen phones. The stereotype of US cops not caring isn't always true. Unfortunate fact for the perp was the ill husband was a US Attorney and stealing his phone made it a big boy federal felony that was not looked kindly upon by the colleagues of a dying AUSA in the Northern District. I wonder if he's still in FCI Lompoc.
- Fokamul 9mo agoOh yeah, justice in the free and best country in the world. Prisons are hell on earth, so after his release, he will murder first person on sight and he will be back in no time. So smart.
- ta9000 9mo agoblink You OK there bud?
- elzbardico 9mo agoSo? Let him roam freely, consequences free? What about we execute him on the third strike if you think prison is not good enough?
- rdtsc 9mo ago> Prisons are hell on earth, so after his release, he will murder first person on sight and he will be back in no time > So smart What should have been done instead?
- bchasknga 9mo agoSounds like you also support a life sentence here for stealing a phone, too!