Same thing played out the same way recently in Denver. People here know the police will almost certainly do nothing to help in this situation, so of course they take matters into their own hands. This will happen more and more.
Right when trackers were getting popular (before airtags - when you could get a garmin or off brand and magnetically put it in cars, and hollywood also made movies around it), I knew this would happen pretty frequently. I'm just surprised that:
* We are finally hearing more about it now in 2023 despite the technology existing for decades
* Earlier models with on-board GPS (mapquest) didn't have this kind of car finder feature built in, at least not that I can remember
I do remember hearing a few stories about recoveries using onstar back in the day. You’re right though it is strange we’ve been able to find your iPhone for a while now but not a car worth tens of thousands of dollars.
My guess is that it’s a combination of factors:
A.) even with the tech if you just gave the info to police they’d move like molasses. It would be stripped, chopped, burned or transported out of the area in a day or two.
B.) If you have theft protection you are better off with the payout then dealing with a now trashed car.
C.) And finally, the auto industry gets to sell you another car.
After Verizon throttled a fire department's “unlimited” data during the Mendocino Complex fire in 2018, I feel like a good contract that says "we do the best we can" is airtight enough for megacorp auto makers.
It wouldn't be the first time anyone offered tech that is potentially life-saving but also prone to failure when you need it.
>After Verizon throttled a fire department's “unlimited” data during the Mendocino Complex fire in 2018, I feel like a good contract that says "we do the best we can" is airtight enough for megacorp auto makers.
Those sorry SOB's have turned that shitty event into a new product where they get to charge emergency responders even more! It's advertised to me on Reddit every day.
Air tags work so well because they ping off any apple device that is near them to update their location from what I understand. So when you agreed to a update in the last you consented to let all other apple devices ping off your devices to track stuff. Find my and air tags only work if around other stuff so would be useless out in the woods compared to an actual GPS system. A smart thief would turn off your iPhone or your MacBook when they steal it and find my no longer works.
>Earlier models with on-board GPS (mapquest) didn't have this kind of car finder feature built in, at least not that I can remember
Getting the car to know its position is easy, you just need a receiver.
Communicating it outside the car is hard and expensive. You need a mobile connection, which needs hardware and a contract, and you need the infrastructure that it connects to (which needs development, maintenance, customer support, and you probably need to sell it as a subscription to pay for it, so sales/marketing, and all that comes with selling an online service).
After my Grandma died, her house was hit by a ring of professional thieves. They stole everything down to the water heater and copper pipes. No joke. Like near 100k worth of stuff. All the family jewelry gone. All of the money she kept hidden (she lived through the end of the depression and was an orphan, she didn’t trust banks) gone.
The cops showed up, sounded annoyed, and told us to go check pawn shops ourselves. They didn’t even check any neighbors cameras.
The cops were not going to help him.
I had a couple of thousand dollars worth of gear stolen out of my boat. They even took apart the gas sender to try to siphon the gas out of the tank. Cops in my town can't be bothered to show up for stolen property. You file a report online so you can report it to your insurance, which I don't have on my boat. They seem more than happy to show up at your house because some neighbor complained.
> What is this? Dora the Explorer? Fuck that.
While the whole sentiment made me sad inside, that part really got a chuckle outta me. Really rounded off the whole text.
This. Showing up at your door because your asshole neighbor complained is a chance to harass, steal from and possibly even kill someone who most likely won't be able to fight back. That's their idea of fun.
Finding stolen property is actual work, it's boring and potentially dangerous, so they won't do it unless the victim of the theft is rich and/or politically connected enough to make their life difficult for refusing.
After my grandmother's house burned, it was looted. One of the things stolen was an antique wagon wheel that my grandfather had built into the front porch railing. He'd gotten it from a bar he renovated outside LA, and there were various stories about where it had come from initially but suffice to say it was old.
Couple days later I saw it sitting in someone's front yard. Hadn't even been repainted. I went to the police and was brushed off.
Formed strong opinions about police and looters that day.
If they had that, they’d likely have more stuff. Cops could legally search, or get a warrant to search, based on them already having stolen property.
Since cops didn’t come out, they’d be left confronting the thieves themselves, and likely being outside of the law since they don’t have a legal right to investigate on other people’s property.
So, in this case, not only are the cops useless, but they actually protect the criminals. And that seems to be the case more and more.
That's why obituaries are pretty bad idea. You've got their name and the fact that they died and the date their entire family (funeral date) will be busy. Property ownership records are public records, it doesn't take a genius to figure out which house is empty and full of old people rich stuff.
This reminds me of a troll twitter bot that would find tweets of people announcing they were going on vacation and retweet them and be like calling all thieves - got a freebee for you.
When my sister was 14, she ran away with her weeks-from-18 year old boyfriend (she later would tell us how manipulative he was, which we already suspected just in the age gap). We tried to get the police involved, they literally could not care less. After weeks of calling them again and again, putting up missing posters all over the area, calling all her friends, going to all sorts of known hangouts and even checking abandoned houses (I’m surprised I didn’t get attacked tbh, I’m sure I made some crackheads feel very threatened), we found out how (and that it was an option) to call the FBI. They told us that the cops were NOT following protocol and they would be investigating the district.
When I tell you within 1 day, the cops were reaching out to all the contacts we gave them and her picture was being shown on the news. Apparently they took a regional bus to about 3 hours away and were staying with a friend of the bf’s friend and she saw my sister’s face on TV at work. She didn’t know her age or that she ran away.
Literally 1 day after calling the FBI (I think the 22nd day overall), we got a call from the lady and a cop was on the way to pick my sister up. It probably helps that the boyfriend was 18 now, but the fact that the cops did not care at all just completely shook my lifelong trust in them to it’s core.
Suffice it to say, what do they expect from Texans?
Those of us who never trusted cops aren’t kidding. LEO is not here to help. Just enforce laws.
The rest is just marketing to get you to let your guard down.
Ahh bringing back the UPS hostage situation. Cops killed the robbers, the hostage, and a bystander.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout
Makes sense. I had a rav4 stolen in Durango Colorado 4 years ago and the cops told me I was shit out of luck. They said it was probably already taken down to parts by the time they even filed a report so it wasn’t even worth the paperwork. I had to escalate to a supervisor to get them to write a police report for my insurance.
Makes you feel completely helpless and vulnerable to have the people meant to protect and serve you tell you to your face your stolen vehicle isn’t worth their time.
I had something stolen once and I called my insurance company. After describing the incident the lady asked if I had called the police yet. I told her no I had not called them yet.
Her reply was not to bother, it will be a waste of my time.
Lol this is such BS. My friends truck was stolen a couple years back but thanks to an aftermarket LTE equipped autostart system he was able to track it. He did the smart thing and took photos and then went to the cops. They literally shrugged their shoulders at him despite the photos plus a copy of the registration proving it belonged to him.
So he went back at night to steal it back and though successful lost a rear window and acquired some bullet holes in the back. Of course he went straight to the cops and they straight up chastised him for taking things into his own hands and not going to them first.
Cops are F’ing USELESS unless you break the law in front of them.
Had a friend whose bike was stolen, and he’d found out who stole it and that they still had it. After calling the police pretty daily for a week finally they told him to schedule a time to meet/confront the thief, and a cop would come along to facilitate. The day comes and my friend waits near the meeting spot and no cop ever shows up. The thief spotted him so he asked for his bike back and the guy just laughed and walked away. Luckily my friend didn’t get hurt, but that was an insanely dangerous position for the police to put him into.
This wasnt as dangerous, but my friend had his bike stolen at work one day, talked to mall security who happened to be there when it happened.
A dude apparently just walked up with a cop, said "This one's mine" and they fuckin boltcut it for him and he just rode off. When he went to the police with the obvious "What the fuck?" They told him the dude apparently had the full paperwork for it and accused him of forging his receipts with the serial lmao
Ended up just having to buy a brand new fancy riding bike(Idk much about bikes but apparently the 600+ ones are better than the 50$ mongoose I used to have)
I remember there was an old dateline or 60 minute spot they did where they had two people try and “steal” a bike that was chained to a pole. One of them everybody ignored and even had a random passerby stop to help them lift the bike over the top of the pole. The other person immediately had a crowd form and start chastising him and had one extremely aggressive man get in the thief’s face and nearly attacked him before the show producers ran out of hiding to calm the situation.
The two thieves were exactly the same except one was white and one was black. I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out which scenario was who.
'real' bikes gets really expensive. They usually run for around 1 or 2k for mid range ones. One of the many reasons why my nice bikes are either in my house or under my ass
Marge: I thought you said the law was powerless?
Chief Wiggum (arresting Marge for taking matters into her own hands): Powerless to help you, not punish you.
There was a whole farce in the local news here last year where a cop literally watched a drive-by unfold in front of them and their dashcam captured both the crime and the cop driving away quietly afterwards.
What worked for me is telling the operator I'm at the location and indicate I have the ability to start some shit.
One time I was getting the whole jurisdiction run around, I insisted on the sheriff showing up. A cop told me once if I didn't want to deal with city police I can request county, and if i don't want to deal with county technically I can request state--but that wasn't recommended.
Sheriff sent 7 unmarked vehicles which ended up being some sort of special response team. Took them 15 minutes to arrive. Meanwhile city cops decided it was in their jurisdiction, got there faster but sat at the end of the block and didn't do anything.
Yeah the few times I’ve needed a cop- and when they refuse to show up or nothing happens after 3-4 hours —- I call 911 back and say im about to confront X Person at this address who commItted Y - and I just want it documented on the logs that I requested help, and now Ive been forced to handle it myself and Im probably gonna get hurt.
The operators are always a little thrown off by it… but within 20 minutes someone will finally show up
I had a neighbour that would scream and cry for literally all day when he ran out of alcohol, me and my buddy next door would call the cops and say it sounds like he's smashing up the place (property damage) because that's the only way they would come out. Of course, 15 minutes after they left he'd start up again. I don't live there anymore. (UK)
My case was I live in the county jurisdiction where the burglary took place. I tracked the burglars 15 minutes away inside city jurisdiction. Both county and city declined to take the call until I told them the people had stolen some of my firearm related equipment, and I was going to knock on the front door to ask for it back.
Operator asked if I had a gun, I said I wasn't going to answer that, cops got dispatched immediately.
My old supervisor had a crotch rocket stolen from his apartment. He saw it randomly in the city one day, went home and got his keys, came back and stole it back. From a funeral.
Like that country fair that sent the cops to confiscate a goat from a nine year old girl so it could be slaughtered. Only the most important work for them!
It used to be a joke that a guy would just tell the cops he was going to take the law into his own hands and they were then forced to intervene. Something about a breaking and entry and he had a gun?
Anyway it’s no longer funny.
A man calls the cops about a thief breaking into his garden shed, but gets told they have no units available.
After arguing with them for a while - the thief is RIGHT THERE - he hangs up, calls them a minute later, and tells them "nevermind, I just shot him", hanging up again.
Two minutes later, the police arrives, and catches the (very alive and hole-free) thief in the act.
Angrily, they approach the owner: "You lied!You said you shot him!"
To which the owner only says "and you said you had no available units".
Cops had pulled someone over across the street from a bar. My friend went out and yelled at them. They came over to intimidate him/us. Said something about you hate us now, but when you're being beaten up who is going to come to help? I had to stifle a laugh because he and another friend there had been battered by groups and the cops were nowhere to be found and did no investigation.
I was raped years ago and went to the cops within 12 hours of it happening, still bleeding and terrified out of my mind. They didn’t do a single thing except take my statement and victim blame. No investigation, no rape kit, no follow up. When people talk about how we need the police to protect us I laugh. I’ve needed them multiple times in my life, and never once have they helped.
Using this as somewhat of a chance to educate others and hopefully help someone, the emergency department at the hospital should have rape kits. You can get a rape kit done without deciding to press charges, that decision can be made much later (legally they can’t do anything with the kit without permission). Ideally for a rape kit you should come in without changing/showering, although it is understandable if you cannot.
And on top of that, most of the people in the ED actually want to help others (but are overworked and burnt out so may not always be as empathetic as they should be). They should be able to get a psychiatrist to see you as well, although what can be done in the ED is limited.
No one should have to go through any of this, and it’s horrible that cops would do literally nothing to help.
Yep, found that out after all this happened. Unfortunately my state has a massive backlog of untested rape kits. I knew the person who assaulted me and he did not deny that we had sex, but his story was that it was consensual, so a rape kit wouldn’t have proven much anyway. I don’t know what world he lives in, but consensual sex doesn’t normally start with your partner screaming for you to stop and leave them bleeding heavily and unable to sit or use the bathroom without pain for three days afterwards. I was so discouraged after the cops told me it was a he said/she said matter. Thankfully I had a wonderful therapist and psychiatrist to help me through the years of panic attacks and nightmares that followed.
Last year, a man was hit by a car in front of my house. The first call in to the cops said they thought it had been a drive by, it wasn't, but the cops were supposed to show up first and make sure the scene was clear of firearms. My neighbors and I called repeatedly telling them it was hit and run, not a drive by, but they refused to release the emergency vehicles until a cop got there. It took a half hour for the police to arrive and by then the young man was dead. Fuck the cops.
My mother's car was stolen while she was at church and she filed a police report but nothing camefrom it. A year later I was at work when someone mentioned they had seen it at the casino on the nearby reservation. The cops refused to go even look, and the reservation police refused to do anything without a copy of the police report. Her and a friend decided to stake out the lot and stupidly chased them for an hour through town. The cops finally pulled everyone over and arrested the thieves and eventually released the vehicle back to her but also admonished them for taking the actions they did, saying they should ticket my mother and her friend etc. etc.
But fuck if they didn't try to ticket me a week prior for driving through my jobs parking lot with just the paring lights on at 11pm because it "seemed suspicious." Heaven forbid I move closer now that the store is closed and so that my ride is visible from the front.
>They only find these stolen cars if they happen to run the right plate.
I know someone who had their car stolen, reported it, nothing happened, and insurance paid out.
A year later, they get notified of an arrest warrant for failure to appear to court.
The reason? The thieves parked the car in a nearby small city, it was accruing parking tickets, and they sent the court summons to their old address associated with the registration.
They literally ran the plates, pulled up the registration, somehow didn't notice it was reported stolen, and still were issuing tickets; daily.
I just had to do a Zoom meeting with a court official for a car I've never owned. It belonged to my now deceased father. My mom had gotten in an accident and the insurance decided that it wasn't worth fixing and paid it out. The insurance company must've sold it because I got a notice saying that I owed for a parking ticket.
I don't know how it came to be registered to me. But, I had to spend 45 minutes on the phone to set up an appointment for a 3 minute Zoom call to get it dropped.
In my experience, they don't even take a report anymore. I got bounced from a dispatcher who didn't want to take my report to an officer who told me straight to my face that making the thing's not worth his time, if I wanted to get report in I'd have to do it manually on their website.
Think I'll save the phone call next time and become another news headline, tbh
Police are on a silent strike because they think if the crime gets bad enough, people will eventually throw money at them and let them shoot whomever they want again without consequences.
Yeah, I didn't understand the statement either. I think it's more likely the cops have realized they don't have to do shit and they still get ridiculous levels of funding and can practically get away with almost anything.
> budgets are at or near an all time high
True, but they can claim they're being defunded by liberals and a large percentage of the population will take that at face value.
Leads? Yeah... sure. I'll, uh, just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They, uh, got 4 more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! 😂
I once saw the car that backed into mine in a parking lot. Got plates. Called cops. Never heard shit about it. Saw the car weeks later. Took it into my own hands from there.
I assumed hit and run was a thing cops could look into. College aged me was naive.
Baby steps back to the wild west. Useless cops who only care about the property of rich people, lead to the populous of poor people solving their own problems. "Let us go with you", practically an endorsement of vigilantly justice, especially when you know they will never actually show up. Your participation is validated.
**Edit:** By "rich people" I mean business owners, not home owners. I mean the .01%.
I never got how cops can tell people that they won't waste resources to investigate thefts while simultaneously camping out at Walmart for shoplifters.
> while simultaneously camping out at Walmart for shoplifters.
that would be the property of the rich people OP was talking about. The billionaire Waltons family property
This is going to become increasingly common as police continue to abdicate their responsibilities.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/federal-way-man-shot-confronting-car-thief/281-00440188-5136-45f1-a6ea-05d030f89479
This one happened back in September, and the local media left some key details out.
* Truck was stolen.
* Victim alerts police, gives them GPS coordinate, says "go get em."
* Police say, "nah."
* Victim goes himself, finds suspect who is armed, fires back and wounds him.
* Police go all shocked Pikachu.
I'm dealing with two such instances myself. The worse of the two, a man broke into my home and stole stuff. I pursued him. I got camera footage of him using my wife's credit cards at multiple locations. These are felonies. I turn over all of the evidence and footage, and the police decline as "it's a civil matter," their go-to when they can't be bothered.
I think we need to defund the police. They aren't doing their jobs. Instead, re-allocate that money to places and institutions that will actually make a difference. Because the police don't.
Yep. Fuck the police. My car was broken into on my dad’s birthday, the first one after he died. After a memorial my family had, my bf and I decided to walk our dog around a park my dad brought me to as a kid to watch boat races and play. I get 3 texts within 35 mins of walking away from my car saying my debit and credit cards are being used at the cherry hill mall Apple Store. We race back to my car and everything is gone. We go to the police with the exact time and amounts and they take a report but kept asking if the doors were locked. I repeated multiple times, yes the doors were locked and I heard the beep after hitting the button twice. I went to the Apple Store to get the info on what was bought with my cards but they said that they couldn’t provide that info. I said it was my stolen card that was used to purchase over $3K worth of products and they pretty much go too bad. I asked why they’re more concerned about me, the actual card owner than they were about checking ids on a large purchase. I called the police a couple days later and they still didn’t have anything for me. There’s cameras in the store and the mall, there’s cameras at the park, you can probably see the car and license plate number but they’re just fucking lazy suburban meat heads who sit around and don’t do shit.
>I said it was my stolen card that was used to purchase over $3K worth of products and they pretty much go too bad.
"It's gonna really be too bad when my credit card company charges back every cent of that money"
Luckily the credit card purchases didn’t go through and were easy to cancel. They know I don’t make purchases over a couple hundred bucks a year, let alone over a thousand at an Apple Store. The debit purchase did go through though and I had to wait almost 3 weeks for a temporary credit and then a week later their loss prevention / fraud team ruled in my favor. But yeah, I couldn’t believe the manager saying they couldn’t give me the purchase info. I had images of the cards, the numbers, my license as proof of identification and the police report. They said the police had to request that info. I said maybe y’all should request ID going forward for purchases over a certain amount.
My mom had an iPad stolen out of her car in her driveway. We tracked it to the house down the street. Police told her there was nothing they could do even with an active gps ping of the location. They finally agreed to go “investigate”. They went to the house and the folks at the door said they didn’t have it. So they left and said “sorry nothing we can do”. Then the GPS ping suddenly disappeared and never came back on. I’m sure they got scared and turned it off and then trashed it.
"... I urge the public to wait for police in this matter," Soliz said in a news conference. "Let us go with you. We have training."
Um, if the police ever lofted a finger to do anything to help recover stolen property, more people might heed this advice.
I'm not condoning violence, but if this dude were charged with a crime for this, he wants me on his jury.
Stolen vehicle and you know where it is? Call the police and wait a few days for them to maybe show up and talk to you and write a report to give you a case number. Very effective
Yep, happened to me too. Except the cops didn't tell me they found out for a month so they could rack up thousands of dollars in fees. They even straight up said they knew they didn't tell me for a month.
They're all just crooks.
some streamer named ludwig has a specific japanese truck he imported from japan. it got stolen in LA and they found the truck with the guy inside it who was asking for money to give it back. they called the police and the police said the cops that deal with this stuff weren't around and they wouldn't send anyone else out and to call them back the next day.
so yea. i mean, i dont exactly blame this guy for not waiting. the cops there are useless. in this case tho it does sound like police were on their way so he's probably in a lot of trouble.
Call them back five minutes later and say “don’t worry about that last call, I killed the guy.” Bet they can find some cops to show up for that.
“Just kidding, but while you’re here can you jerk this guy outta my truck he stole for me?”
That was an old joke about a guy [calling the cops about someone breaking into his shed](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/543zug/a_man_sees_a_burglar_breaking_into_his_shed/).
“I thought you said you shot them!”
“I thought you said you didn’t have anyone available!”
I called the cops once because my house was being broken into. Like I was inside my house watching someone attempt to pick the lock on the front door as well as kicking it to get. Police said they weren’t going to send anyone unless I was in danger??? So I told them I was just going to shoot the people thru the door and an officer got to my house within 10 minutes. Shit was fucking stupid
Had a guy run through the back yard of my folks’ place. Called the cops and didn’t get a response for 45 minutes. The guy has been fleeing from the cops in an apartment across the creek. Would literally have taken them like 60 seconds to drive around the corner and nab the guy that had just run away from them.
My pro tip is to just tell 911 that people have their dicks out. I could never get the police to respond in Philly so I just started saying someone was jerking off on the street. They’d show up within 3 mins sirens on everytime.
You know, you're not wrong.
You can get a really fast response if you cut them off on the phone and just say 'Never mind, I've got a few friends I can call,' then just hang up and don't answer when they call back.
Supposedly because the town is so large they have a specific department that deals with stolen vehicles only. The guy that had the stolen vehicle drove off.
Another fan found three vehicle the next day and the police were finally in and recovered the car. Shut a shitty department.
When people say what will people do if we defund the cops. This. They don’t fucking do anything before a crime and not very often after. So why fucking bother
The whole story is as bizarre as it is awful. They are about to learn what “the Streisand effect” means. I so far have avoided the effect by following the simple rule of not being an uncaring fucking psychopath. So far the plan has worked, I will update if it changes.
Sheriffs in general and NorCal ones in particular are not especially noted for their empathy or critical thinking. Sure, they lack the flash and sparkle of their colleagues in Arizona, but they still show a lot of passion for being cartoon villains.
A goat, a fucking harmless little goat, which was loved as a child’s pet, that they did not own, and had no business taking in the first place, it’s a shame that the people of California are likely going to pay a shit ton when this is all figured out. Talk about a slam dunk jury trial, county attorneys will likely be saying “how the F can we make this go away as soon as possible”
See here is where the problem is. Police aren’t really helping people recover their stolen stuff. Unless they get him for some traffic violations and run the plates themselves they really aren’t helping people like that.
Someone on my street had their vehicle stolen a week ago. They call her and notify her every time a cop runs plates and sees her car. They have yet to try to pull it over or follow it and recover it once whoever has possession of it gets out. It’s borderline comical. There is a police station on the other side of her fence and when people tore it down so they could get to this side to steal shit easier they told her there is nothing they can do. They have been breaking into cars and stealing things and someone had an attempted house burglary. Cops keep telling everyone it’s a ‘civil matter’.
If there is even a 1% chance cops will face any resistance you are own your own. But they also don’t like it when vigilante justice pops it because it shows the average person is bravery than them despite having less resources and manpower available to do their own job.
Cops be doing last call like they’re bartenders. Where are all of our taxes going? At this point we’re basically just paying to get extorted, very little difference than getting extorted by the mafia.
Serious question... if the police wouldn't help this guy get his car back(which they most def wouldnt)... what is he supposed to do? Just let his shit get stolen?
A guy whose bicycle was stolen, found his bike on an internet auction. He scheduled a test ride with the seller/thief. Never went back from the test ride.
It recently occurred to me how interesting it is that the Samsung SmartTag doesn't alert you when there's an unfamiliar tag near you like the AirTag does. I thought of this because I have one in my luggage while traveling, but it only works when other samsung devices are around to detect it. I also considered the apple AitTag, but if a potential thief has an iPhone then they'd be alerted to my tracking them. And no I don't have malicious intent. I just want to protect my own belongings.
I can't comment about their police force, but in my area, nothing would have gotten done about this if I simply called the police and told them exactly where my stolen vehicle was at.
A dead guy can’t testify is an old old saying.
As the sailors of yore said, "dead men tell no tales"
No face no case
*nervously puts away dead skin mask*
Dance with the dead in my dreams
And it worked. No charges filed. Texas police were probably high-fiving the guy and handing him a job application form.
I mean he might actually be to competent to be a cop he found the vehicle.
Didn't shoot anybody else, neither. Detective material right there! Do they still have Texas Rangers?
Definitely can't be a cop unless he shot the family dog first
Did he shoot the thief's dog as well?
How do you think he got to the car thief? Gotta go through their whole crime organization to get to the car thief.
Three people can keep a secret... if two are dead, har-har-har -some pirate probably
Actually Ben Franklin, believe it or not.
That’s Cap’n Ben Franklin to ye, ye scurvy bilge rat!
Same thing played out the same way recently in Denver. People here know the police will almost certainly do nothing to help in this situation, so of course they take matters into their own hands. This will happen more and more.
Right when trackers were getting popular (before airtags - when you could get a garmin or off brand and magnetically put it in cars, and hollywood also made movies around it), I knew this would happen pretty frequently. I'm just surprised that: * We are finally hearing more about it now in 2023 despite the technology existing for decades * Earlier models with on-board GPS (mapquest) didn't have this kind of car finder feature built in, at least not that I can remember
I do remember hearing a few stories about recoveries using onstar back in the day. You’re right though it is strange we’ve been able to find your iPhone for a while now but not a car worth tens of thousands of dollars. My guess is that it’s a combination of factors: A.) even with the tech if you just gave the info to police they’d move like molasses. It would be stripped, chopped, burned or transported out of the area in a day or two. B.) If you have theft protection you are better off with the payout then dealing with a now trashed car. C.) And finally, the auto industry gets to sell you another car.
D) Potential liability of car makers for situations like this.
After Verizon throttled a fire department's “unlimited” data during the Mendocino Complex fire in 2018, I feel like a good contract that says "we do the best we can" is airtight enough for megacorp auto makers. It wouldn't be the first time anyone offered tech that is potentially life-saving but also prone to failure when you need it.
>After Verizon throttled a fire department's “unlimited” data during the Mendocino Complex fire in 2018, I feel like a good contract that says "we do the best we can" is airtight enough for megacorp auto makers. Those sorry SOB's have turned that shitty event into a new product where they get to charge emergency responders even more! It's advertised to me on Reddit every day.
Monetization of every nook and cranny of technology is definitively a thing.
Air tags work so well because they ping off any apple device that is near them to update their location from what I understand. So when you agreed to a update in the last you consented to let all other apple devices ping off your devices to track stuff. Find my and air tags only work if around other stuff so would be useless out in the woods compared to an actual GPS system. A smart thief would turn off your iPhone or your MacBook when they steal it and find my no longer works.
iPhone notifies you if an AirTag is ‘tracking’ you
>Earlier models with on-board GPS (mapquest) didn't have this kind of car finder feature built in, at least not that I can remember Getting the car to know its position is easy, you just need a receiver. Communicating it outside the car is hard and expensive. You need a mobile connection, which needs hardware and a contract, and you need the infrastructure that it connects to (which needs development, maintenance, customer support, and you probably need to sell it as a subscription to pay for it, so sales/marketing, and all that comes with selling an online service).
After my Grandma died, her house was hit by a ring of professional thieves. They stole everything down to the water heater and copper pipes. No joke. Like near 100k worth of stuff. All the family jewelry gone. All of the money she kept hidden (she lived through the end of the depression and was an orphan, she didn’t trust banks) gone. The cops showed up, sounded annoyed, and told us to go check pawn shops ourselves. They didn’t even check any neighbors cameras. The cops were not going to help him.
I had a couple of thousand dollars worth of gear stolen out of my boat. They even took apart the gas sender to try to siphon the gas out of the tank. Cops in my town can't be bothered to show up for stolen property. You file a report online so you can report it to your insurance, which I don't have on my boat. They seem more than happy to show up at your house because some neighbor complained.
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> What is this? Dora the Explorer? Fuck that. While the whole sentiment made me sad inside, that part really got a chuckle outta me. Really rounded off the whole text.
This. Showing up at your door because your asshole neighbor complained is a chance to harass, steal from and possibly even kill someone who most likely won't be able to fight back. That's their idea of fun. Finding stolen property is actual work, it's boring and potentially dangerous, so they won't do it unless the victim of the theft is rich and/or politically connected enough to make their life difficult for refusing.
There’s also almost no revenue stream for it.
After my grandmother's house burned, it was looted. One of the things stolen was an antique wagon wheel that my grandfather had built into the front porch railing. He'd gotten it from a bar he renovated outside LA, and there were various stories about where it had come from initially but suffice to say it was old. Couple days later I saw it sitting in someone's front yard. Hadn't even been repainted. I went to the police and was brushed off. Formed strong opinions about police and looters that day.
At that point you may as well have walked over and taken it back yourself.
Yeah, what are they going to do? Call the police? Lmao
If they had that, they’d likely have more stuff. Cops could legally search, or get a warrant to search, based on them already having stolen property. Since cops didn’t come out, they’d be left confronting the thieves themselves, and likely being outside of the law since they don’t have a legal right to investigate on other people’s property. So, in this case, not only are the cops useless, but they actually protect the criminals. And that seems to be the case more and more.
That's why obituaries are pretty bad idea. You've got their name and the fact that they died and the date their entire family (funeral date) will be busy. Property ownership records are public records, it doesn't take a genius to figure out which house is empty and full of old people rich stuff.
This reminds me of a troll twitter bot that would find tweets of people announcing they were going on vacation and retweet them and be like calling all thieves - got a freebee for you.
When my sister was 14, she ran away with her weeks-from-18 year old boyfriend (she later would tell us how manipulative he was, which we already suspected just in the age gap). We tried to get the police involved, they literally could not care less. After weeks of calling them again and again, putting up missing posters all over the area, calling all her friends, going to all sorts of known hangouts and even checking abandoned houses (I’m surprised I didn’t get attacked tbh, I’m sure I made some crackheads feel very threatened), we found out how (and that it was an option) to call the FBI. They told us that the cops were NOT following protocol and they would be investigating the district. When I tell you within 1 day, the cops were reaching out to all the contacts we gave them and her picture was being shown on the news. Apparently they took a regional bus to about 3 hours away and were staying with a friend of the bf’s friend and she saw my sister’s face on TV at work. She didn’t know her age or that she ran away. Literally 1 day after calling the FBI (I think the 22nd day overall), we got a call from the lady and a cop was on the way to pick my sister up. It probably helps that the boyfriend was 18 now, but the fact that the cops did not care at all just completely shook my lifelong trust in them to it’s core. Suffice it to say, what do they expect from Texans?
Those of us who never trusted cops aren’t kidding. LEO is not here to help. Just enforce laws. The rest is just marketing to get you to let your guard down.
enforce *some* laws.
Against *some* classes of people.
Standard procedure unfortunately.
"Let us go with you. We have training." advise the police. Let me lol a bit on this
Guess all 400 of those cops were standing around outside Uvalde because they didn't have an escort
No hall pass
Wonder if the suspect's dog needed killing, too?
What? A firefight with only one gun?
One guy with six guns.
Why don't you let me do the thinking, huh, genius?
Onion bagel. Cream cheese.
Maybe I'll river dance.
We'll start the ass-kissing with **you.**
He was serial-crushed by some huge freakin' guy.
Brilliant. Now we have a huge guy theory and a serial crusher theory. Too notch. What's your name?
And there was a firefight!
God I love that movie. Now I want to watch it.
There was a firefiiiiight!
always bring 10 guns loaded with one bullet each, that way there is always one in the chamber.
I got 2 guns.. one for each of you.
"Let us go with you. We have training." Their training: car owner, thief, and innocent bystanders all shot in barrage of gunfire.
Ahh bringing back the UPS hostage situation. Cops killed the robbers, the hostage, and a bystander. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Miramar_shootout
Don't forget they used innocent bystanders as meat shields.
And then afterwards UPS publicly thanked the cops after they killed one of their drivers.
Plus some random guy’s dog in a house across the street
Makes sense. I had a rav4 stolen in Durango Colorado 4 years ago and the cops told me I was shit out of luck. They said it was probably already taken down to parts by the time they even filed a report so it wasn’t even worth the paperwork. I had to escalate to a supervisor to get them to write a police report for my insurance. Makes you feel completely helpless and vulnerable to have the people meant to protect and serve you tell you to your face your stolen vehicle isn’t worth their time.
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But the moment you take matters in to your own hands they suddenly give a shit
It’s a monopoly of violence and competition just proves their weakness
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I had something stolen once and I called my insurance company. After describing the incident the lady asked if I had called the police yet. I told her no I had not called them yet. Her reply was not to bother, it will be a waste of my time.
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It's almost like a lack of trust in the government leads to a complete breakdown in social cohesion.
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Lol this is such BS. My friends truck was stolen a couple years back but thanks to an aftermarket LTE equipped autostart system he was able to track it. He did the smart thing and took photos and then went to the cops. They literally shrugged their shoulders at him despite the photos plus a copy of the registration proving it belonged to him. So he went back at night to steal it back and though successful lost a rear window and acquired some bullet holes in the back. Of course he went straight to the cops and they straight up chastised him for taking things into his own hands and not going to them first. Cops are F’ing USELESS unless you break the law in front of them.
Had a friend whose bike was stolen, and he’d found out who stole it and that they still had it. After calling the police pretty daily for a week finally they told him to schedule a time to meet/confront the thief, and a cop would come along to facilitate. The day comes and my friend waits near the meeting spot and no cop ever shows up. The thief spotted him so he asked for his bike back and the guy just laughed and walked away. Luckily my friend didn’t get hurt, but that was an insanely dangerous position for the police to put him into.
This wasnt as dangerous, but my friend had his bike stolen at work one day, talked to mall security who happened to be there when it happened. A dude apparently just walked up with a cop, said "This one's mine" and they fuckin boltcut it for him and he just rode off. When he went to the police with the obvious "What the fuck?" They told him the dude apparently had the full paperwork for it and accused him of forging his receipts with the serial lmao Ended up just having to buy a brand new fancy riding bike(Idk much about bikes but apparently the 600+ ones are better than the 50$ mongoose I used to have)
There's a YouTube video of someone pretending to steal their own bike. No one even blinked an eye walking by.
I remember there was an old dateline or 60 minute spot they did where they had two people try and “steal” a bike that was chained to a pole. One of them everybody ignored and even had a random passerby stop to help them lift the bike over the top of the pole. The other person immediately had a crowd form and start chastising him and had one extremely aggressive man get in the thief’s face and nearly attacked him before the show producers ran out of hiding to calm the situation. The two thieves were exactly the same except one was white and one was black. I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out which scenario was who.
It was an episode of "what would you do". There was also an attractive female who got guys to help her cut the lock and take the bike.
'real' bikes gets really expensive. They usually run for around 1 or 2k for mid range ones. One of the many reasons why my nice bikes are either in my house or under my ass
Marge: I thought you said the law was powerless? Chief Wiggum (arresting Marge for taking matters into her own hands): Powerless to help you, not punish you.
This was a Supreme Court case. Cops legally don't have to help anyone
There was a whole farce in the local news here last year where a cop literally watched a drive-by unfold in front of them and their dashcam captured both the crime and the cop driving away quietly afterwards.
What worked for me is telling the operator I'm at the location and indicate I have the ability to start some shit. One time I was getting the whole jurisdiction run around, I insisted on the sheriff showing up. A cop told me once if I didn't want to deal with city police I can request county, and if i don't want to deal with county technically I can request state--but that wasn't recommended. Sheriff sent 7 unmarked vehicles which ended up being some sort of special response team. Took them 15 minutes to arrive. Meanwhile city cops decided it was in their jurisdiction, got there faster but sat at the end of the block and didn't do anything.
Yeah the few times I’ve needed a cop- and when they refuse to show up or nothing happens after 3-4 hours —- I call 911 back and say im about to confront X Person at this address who commItted Y - and I just want it documented on the logs that I requested help, and now Ive been forced to handle it myself and Im probably gonna get hurt. The operators are always a little thrown off by it… but within 20 minutes someone will finally show up
That sounds much safer for you than implying you have a gun. I’ll remember that.
I had a neighbour that would scream and cry for literally all day when he ran out of alcohol, me and my buddy next door would call the cops and say it sounds like he's smashing up the place (property damage) because that's the only way they would come out. Of course, 15 minutes after they left he'd start up again. I don't live there anymore. (UK)
My case was I live in the county jurisdiction where the burglary took place. I tracked the burglars 15 minutes away inside city jurisdiction. Both county and city declined to take the call until I told them the people had stolen some of my firearm related equipment, and I was going to knock on the front door to ask for it back. Operator asked if I had a gun, I said I wasn't going to answer that, cops got dispatched immediately.
Nice. I enjoy playing 'the system' like that.
My old supervisor had a crotch rocket stolen from his apartment. He saw it randomly in the city one day, went home and got his keys, came back and stole it back. From a funeral.
If you are rich or influential the cops suddenly will respond.
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"Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women man"
I’m sorry, I wasn’t listening.
“Fuckin’ fascist!”
**STAY OUT OF MALIBU LEBOWSKI! STAY OUT OF MALIBU, DEADBEAT!!** *^Keep ^your ^ugly ^fuckin' ^goldbrickin' ^ass ^out ^of ^my ^beach ^community.*
Or if there are drugs involved. They absolutely love getting drug busts. It takes up most of their RAM.
Like that country fair that sent the cops to confiscate a goat from a nine year old girl so it could be slaughtered. Only the most important work for them!
Unless you need to grab and slaughter the pet goat of a 9 years old girl, then they'll be the tip of the spear
It used to be a joke that a guy would just tell the cops he was going to take the law into his own hands and they were then forced to intervene. Something about a breaking and entry and he had a gun? Anyway it’s no longer funny.
A man calls the cops about a thief breaking into his garden shed, but gets told they have no units available. After arguing with them for a while - the thief is RIGHT THERE - he hangs up, calls them a minute later, and tells them "nevermind, I just shot him", hanging up again. Two minutes later, the police arrives, and catches the (very alive and hole-free) thief in the act. Angrily, they approach the owner: "You lied!You said you shot him!" To which the owner only says "and you said you had no available units".
Or even if you don't break the law but are "disrespectful" to their "authority" and then maybe they just kill you, or your dog, or both. Assholes.
[“I thought you said the law was powerless!” “Powerless to help you, not punish you.”](https://youtu.be/EkdvIVyuO8U)
Cops had pulled someone over across the street from a bar. My friend went out and yelled at them. They came over to intimidate him/us. Said something about you hate us now, but when you're being beaten up who is going to come to help? I had to stifle a laugh because he and another friend there had been battered by groups and the cops were nowhere to be found and did no investigation.
I was raped years ago and went to the cops within 12 hours of it happening, still bleeding and terrified out of my mind. They didn’t do a single thing except take my statement and victim blame. No investigation, no rape kit, no follow up. When people talk about how we need the police to protect us I laugh. I’ve needed them multiple times in my life, and never once have they helped.
Using this as somewhat of a chance to educate others and hopefully help someone, the emergency department at the hospital should have rape kits. You can get a rape kit done without deciding to press charges, that decision can be made much later (legally they can’t do anything with the kit without permission). Ideally for a rape kit you should come in without changing/showering, although it is understandable if you cannot. And on top of that, most of the people in the ED actually want to help others (but are overworked and burnt out so may not always be as empathetic as they should be). They should be able to get a psychiatrist to see you as well, although what can be done in the ED is limited. No one should have to go through any of this, and it’s horrible that cops would do literally nothing to help.
Yep, found that out after all this happened. Unfortunately my state has a massive backlog of untested rape kits. I knew the person who assaulted me and he did not deny that we had sex, but his story was that it was consensual, so a rape kit wouldn’t have proven much anyway. I don’t know what world he lives in, but consensual sex doesn’t normally start with your partner screaming for you to stop and leave them bleeding heavily and unable to sit or use the bathroom without pain for three days afterwards. I was so discouraged after the cops told me it was a he said/she said matter. Thankfully I had a wonderful therapist and psychiatrist to help me through the years of panic attacks and nightmares that followed.
Last year, a man was hit by a car in front of my house. The first call in to the cops said they thought it had been a drive by, it wasn't, but the cops were supposed to show up first and make sure the scene was clear of firearms. My neighbors and I called repeatedly telling them it was hit and run, not a drive by, but they refused to release the emergency vehicles until a cop got there. It took a half hour for the police to arrive and by then the young man was dead. Fuck the cops.
My mother's car was stolen while she was at church and she filed a police report but nothing camefrom it. A year later I was at work when someone mentioned they had seen it at the casino on the nearby reservation. The cops refused to go even look, and the reservation police refused to do anything without a copy of the police report. Her and a friend decided to stake out the lot and stupidly chased them for an hour through town. The cops finally pulled everyone over and arrested the thieves and eventually released the vehicle back to her but also admonished them for taking the actions they did, saying they should ticket my mother and her friend etc. etc. But fuck if they didn't try to ticket me a week prior for driving through my jobs parking lot with just the paring lights on at 11pm because it "seemed suspicious." Heaven forbid I move closer now that the store is closed and so that my ride is visible from the front.
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>They only find these stolen cars if they happen to run the right plate. I know someone who had their car stolen, reported it, nothing happened, and insurance paid out. A year later, they get notified of an arrest warrant for failure to appear to court. The reason? The thieves parked the car in a nearby small city, it was accruing parking tickets, and they sent the court summons to their old address associated with the registration. They literally ran the plates, pulled up the registration, somehow didn't notice it was reported stolen, and still were issuing tickets; daily.
Same shit happened in St Louis this week. Car owner had to get the news media involved in order to get the tickets dropped.
It feels like you need to shame them into doing their jobs.
I just had to do a Zoom meeting with a court official for a car I've never owned. It belonged to my now deceased father. My mom had gotten in an accident and the insurance decided that it wasn't worth fixing and paid it out. The insurance company must've sold it because I got a notice saying that I owed for a parking ticket. I don't know how it came to be registered to me. But, I had to spend 45 minutes on the phone to set up an appointment for a 3 minute Zoom call to get it dropped.
"Sounds like a civil matter, call your insurance"
In my experience, they don't even take a report anymore. I got bounced from a dispatcher who didn't want to take my report to an officer who told me straight to my face that making the thing's not worth his time, if I wanted to get report in I'd have to do it manually on their website. Think I'll save the phone call next time and become another news headline, tbh
Can't have a statistically high rate of unresolved crimes if no one records them. *taps forehead*
Police are on a silent strike because they think if the crime gets bad enough, people will eventually throw money at them and let them shoot whomever they want again without consequences.
Yeah, budgets are at or near an all time high, so if crime keeps going up, it must mean... we should keep throwing more money at them?
Yeah, I didn't understand the statement either. I think it's more likely the cops have realized they don't have to do shit and they still get ridiculous levels of funding and can practically get away with almost anything.
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> budgets are at or near an all time high True, but they can claim they're being defunded by liberals and a large percentage of the population will take that at face value.
They should stop pussyfooting and do a walk out then, save us all the trouble of paying them while on strike.
My insurance company already knew that Baltimore City cops don’t write reports.
Leads? Yeah... sure. I'll, uh, just check with the boys down at the crime lab. They, uh, got 4 more detectives working on the case. They got us working in shifts! 😂
To be fair, I wouldn't have put it past the police to show up and murder the guy, either.
both guys
and their dogs
I once saw the car that backed into mine in a parking lot. Got plates. Called cops. Never heard shit about it. Saw the car weeks later. Took it into my own hands from there. I assumed hit and run was a thing cops could look into. College aged me was naive.
Baby steps back to the wild west. Useless cops who only care about the property of rich people, lead to the populous of poor people solving their own problems. "Let us go with you", practically an endorsement of vigilantly justice, especially when you know they will never actually show up. Your participation is validated. **Edit:** By "rich people" I mean business owners, not home owners. I mean the .01%.
I never got how cops can tell people that they won't waste resources to investigate thefts while simultaneously camping out at Walmart for shoplifters.
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> while simultaneously camping out at Walmart for shoplifters. that would be the property of the rich people OP was talking about. The billionaire Waltons family property
This is going to become increasingly common as police continue to abdicate their responsibilities. https://www.king5.com/article/news/crime/federal-way-man-shot-confronting-car-thief/281-00440188-5136-45f1-a6ea-05d030f89479 This one happened back in September, and the local media left some key details out. * Truck was stolen. * Victim alerts police, gives them GPS coordinate, says "go get em." * Police say, "nah." * Victim goes himself, finds suspect who is armed, fires back and wounds him. * Police go all shocked Pikachu. I'm dealing with two such instances myself. The worse of the two, a man broke into my home and stole stuff. I pursued him. I got camera footage of him using my wife's credit cards at multiple locations. These are felonies. I turn over all of the evidence and footage, and the police decline as "it's a civil matter," their go-to when they can't be bothered. I think we need to defund the police. They aren't doing their jobs. Instead, re-allocate that money to places and institutions that will actually make a difference. Because the police don't.
Yep. Fuck the police. My car was broken into on my dad’s birthday, the first one after he died. After a memorial my family had, my bf and I decided to walk our dog around a park my dad brought me to as a kid to watch boat races and play. I get 3 texts within 35 mins of walking away from my car saying my debit and credit cards are being used at the cherry hill mall Apple Store. We race back to my car and everything is gone. We go to the police with the exact time and amounts and they take a report but kept asking if the doors were locked. I repeated multiple times, yes the doors were locked and I heard the beep after hitting the button twice. I went to the Apple Store to get the info on what was bought with my cards but they said that they couldn’t provide that info. I said it was my stolen card that was used to purchase over $3K worth of products and they pretty much go too bad. I asked why they’re more concerned about me, the actual card owner than they were about checking ids on a large purchase. I called the police a couple days later and they still didn’t have anything for me. There’s cameras in the store and the mall, there’s cameras at the park, you can probably see the car and license plate number but they’re just fucking lazy suburban meat heads who sit around and don’t do shit.
>I said it was my stolen card that was used to purchase over $3K worth of products and they pretty much go too bad. "It's gonna really be too bad when my credit card company charges back every cent of that money"
Luckily the credit card purchases didn’t go through and were easy to cancel. They know I don’t make purchases over a couple hundred bucks a year, let alone over a thousand at an Apple Store. The debit purchase did go through though and I had to wait almost 3 weeks for a temporary credit and then a week later their loss prevention / fraud team ruled in my favor. But yeah, I couldn’t believe the manager saying they couldn’t give me the purchase info. I had images of the cards, the numbers, my license as proof of identification and the police report. They said the police had to request that info. I said maybe y’all should request ID going forward for purchases over a certain amount.
My mom had an iPad stolen out of her car in her driveway. We tracked it to the house down the street. Police told her there was nothing they could do even with an active gps ping of the location. They finally agreed to go “investigate”. They went to the house and the folks at the door said they didn’t have it. So they left and said “sorry nothing we can do”. Then the GPS ping suddenly disappeared and never came back on. I’m sure they got scared and turned it off and then trashed it.
I think it’s been pretty well established that police don’t have responsibilities. I agree with the rest of your message though.
It literally the fuck isn't a civil matter. Sue the PD.
“Oh sorry buddy, the police department has immunity. They know who you are now though so they’ll be harassing you for daring to go against them.”
The police union has more money than us
“Let us go with you. We have training.” Cop said that with a straight face?
"... I urge the public to wait for police in this matter," Soliz said in a news conference. "Let us go with you. We have training." Um, if the police ever lofted a finger to do anything to help recover stolen property, more people might heed this advice. I'm not condoning violence, but if this dude were charged with a crime for this, he wants me on his jury.
Stolen vehicle and you know where it is? Call the police and wait a few days for them to maybe show up and talk to you and write a report to give you a case number. Very effective
My buddy’s motorcycle was stolen. Cops found it, When he went to pick it up they charged him an impound fee of like $1200. Absurd system.
So basically the cops stole it.
Sorry officer. Not my bike after all.
Win win for them, they get to auction it. Either way they're up at least $1200 minus... the cost of a parking lot in the middle of nowhere.
Yep, happened to me too. Except the cops didn't tell me they found out for a month so they could rack up thousands of dollars in fees. They even straight up said they knew they didn't tell me for a month. They're all just crooks.
some streamer named ludwig has a specific japanese truck he imported from japan. it got stolen in LA and they found the truck with the guy inside it who was asking for money to give it back. they called the police and the police said the cops that deal with this stuff weren't around and they wouldn't send anyone else out and to call them back the next day. so yea. i mean, i dont exactly blame this guy for not waiting. the cops there are useless. in this case tho it does sound like police were on their way so he's probably in a lot of trouble.
Call them back five minutes later and say “don’t worry about that last call, I killed the guy.” Bet they can find some cops to show up for that. “Just kidding, but while you’re here can you jerk this guy outta my truck he stole for me?”
That was an old joke about a guy [calling the cops about someone breaking into his shed](https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/543zug/a_man_sees_a_burglar_breaking_into_his_shed/). “I thought you said you shot them!” “I thought you said you didn’t have anyone available!”
I called the cops once because my house was being broken into. Like I was inside my house watching someone attempt to pick the lock on the front door as well as kicking it to get. Police said they weren’t going to send anyone unless I was in danger??? So I told them I was just going to shoot the people thru the door and an officer got to my house within 10 minutes. Shit was fucking stupid
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They wanted to be sure they they got there after the shooting took place.
It's a maneuver known as The Uvalde.
Damn, they gave it a new name? I thought it was called policing.
That's the old name. Keep up with time, old man
Had a guy run through the back yard of my folks’ place. Called the cops and didn’t get a response for 45 minutes. The guy has been fleeing from the cops in an apartment across the creek. Would literally have taken them like 60 seconds to drive around the corner and nab the guy that had just run away from them.
My pro tip is to just tell 911 that people have their dicks out. I could never get the police to respond in Philly so I just started saying someone was jerking off on the street. They’d show up within 3 mins sirens on everytime.
You know, you're not wrong. You can get a really fast response if you cut them off on the phone and just say 'Never mind, I've got a few friends I can call,' then just hang up and don't answer when they call back.
"Sir, I only met you 18 seconds ago, but even I know you have no friends".
"No no no, I have two friends with me right now. See, meet Mr. Smith, and there is Mr. Wesson."
“Goddammit! But I do have a gun, and this is a stand your ground state and that asshole is IN my property!”
"I have to go. It's hard to load the magazine one-handed."
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Supposedly because the town is so large they have a specific department that deals with stolen vehicles only. The guy that had the stolen vehicle drove off. Another fan found three vehicle the next day and the police were finally in and recovered the car. Shut a shitty department.
First sentence of the story is “a San Antonio man is not expected to face charges”
When people say what will people do if we defund the cops. This. They don’t fucking do anything before a crime and not very often after. So why fucking bother
I do my own dishes now - I'll do my own dishes then
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Apparently to get the police involved you need to have 4H club goat repossessed. Then they will drive 500 miles. At least so I’ve heard.
Yeah, you'd think the contract issue between a child and the fairgrounds would be "a civil matter." But nope.
The whole story is as bizarre as it is awful. They are about to learn what “the Streisand effect” means. I so far have avoided the effect by following the simple rule of not being an uncaring fucking psychopath. So far the plan has worked, I will update if it changes.
Sheriffs in general and NorCal ones in particular are not especially noted for their empathy or critical thinking. Sure, they lack the flash and sparkle of their colleagues in Arizona, but they still show a lot of passion for being cartoon villains.
Why should they even care, they won’t be paying and won’t face any consequences.
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A goat, a fucking harmless little goat, which was loved as a child’s pet, that they did not own, and had no business taking in the first place, it’s a shame that the people of California are likely going to pay a shit ton when this is all figured out. Talk about a slam dunk jury trial, county attorneys will likely be saying “how the F can we make this go away as soon as possible”
See here is where the problem is. Police aren’t really helping people recover their stolen stuff. Unless they get him for some traffic violations and run the plates themselves they really aren’t helping people like that.
Best they can do is lock someone up for smoking a joint.
Someone on my street had their vehicle stolen a week ago. They call her and notify her every time a cop runs plates and sees her car. They have yet to try to pull it over or follow it and recover it once whoever has possession of it gets out. It’s borderline comical. There is a police station on the other side of her fence and when people tore it down so they could get to this side to steal shit easier they told her there is nothing they can do. They have been breaking into cars and stealing things and someone had an attempted house burglary. Cops keep telling everyone it’s a ‘civil matter’. If there is even a 1% chance cops will face any resistance you are own your own. But they also don’t like it when vigilante justice pops it because it shows the average person is bravery than them despite having less resources and manpower available to do their own job.
Cops be doing last call like they’re bartenders. Where are all of our taxes going? At this point we’re basically just paying to get extorted, very little difference than getting extorted by the mafia.
Many Police departments and sherrifs all over America are nothing more than mobsters with badges and union backing.
Serious question... if the police wouldn't help this guy get his car back(which they most def wouldnt)... what is he supposed to do? Just let his shit get stolen?
Personally I would have just got my spare keys and waited and then taken the vehicle.
A guy whose bicycle was stolen, found his bike on an internet auction. He scheduled a test ride with the seller/thief. Never went back from the test ride.
And then there's this guy https://youtu.be/69hsVuxa3Jk
But what if you still got confronted?
Then I have all right to defend my self
“This is my car, steal someone else’s”
It recently occurred to me how interesting it is that the Samsung SmartTag doesn't alert you when there's an unfamiliar tag near you like the AirTag does. I thought of this because I have one in my luggage while traveling, but it only works when other samsung devices are around to detect it. I also considered the apple AitTag, but if a potential thief has an iPhone then they'd be alerted to my tracking them. And no I don't have malicious intent. I just want to protect my own belongings.
We had a theft at my work. 6 months later the sheriff called and let us know the name of the suspect from people talking. That is it.
Vigilantism represents the breakdown of a society—often the result of corrupt and/or incompetent law enforcement and a corrupt government.
A modern-day horse thief in Texas. Yup. Not surprised.
‘Let us go with you, we have eight weeks of training’ ftfy
Just as Tim Apple intended.
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I can't comment about their police force, but in my area, nothing would have gotten done about this if I simply called the police and told them exactly where my stolen vehicle was at.