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The circle remains unbroken: Police react with minimal investigation, numbers are logged. The insurance pays out and premiums are increased. There are ample thieves and buyers. The ports collect cargo fees, and many containers are unchecked when the vehicles are shipped away. The auto company makes and sells another vehicle. The politicians react. Some excuse the criminals and others excoriate the accused. They react and raise taxes.

This is the effect of crumbling institutions not the cause of it, although it reinforces the feedback loop. Keep shrinking the state by putting more of its functions into entities only responsible to their major shareholders and watch it get worse. It's been the program since the modern resurgence of market fundamentalism (neoliberalism).

Headline blame shifting again. THE POLICE did nothing.

Something similar happend to me in Connecticut. Some underaged kid driving her father's SUV backed into my car in a parking lot. She got out, apologized. I took a picture of her, the car and the license plate. She apologized to me and called her father who told her to get back in and drive home. It took the police 6 hours to respond, finally around 2am. They took the details and looked up the vehicle which had expired insurance. They went to the owners house, found the vehicle and knocked on the door. When no one answered (at 3am) they gave up, closed the case and told me to take it up with my insurance because they were understaffed. My insurance company tried using them for 6 months but eventually gave up as well as the police basically refused to help with anything other then the report.

Our car got stolen from out driveway in Waterdown. When we called the police they said:

Why are you calling us, call your insurance company

The neighbour's CRV was stolen 24hrs later. Police don't prevent crime they only punish those that police suspect of being a criminal (or people they just don't like). Cut their funding and put it into education, healthcare or transit.

I fully support citizens stepping in to fight crime if they are willing and able.

If you knew where your stolen property was, you should have automatic legal protection for whatever it takes to get it back.

It's crazy to have a taxpayer funded criminal and legal system that isn't working for them.

Elected officials must take decisive action. We need stronger deterrents, enhanced enforcement resources and a clear, co-ordinated strategy. Stop reacting, please. We need a response.

Jessica doesn't know what we need. Jessica is scared and Wants Someone To Do Something. "Stronger deterrents" never work, have never worked, and we KNOW they won't work. We are already paying more for law enforcement than we can reasonably afford.

I dunno, this is fishy.

The people stalking our neighbourhoods preying on people’s success

Interesting phrase there. Whole piece was definitely overblown, but this kinda gives away the game.

Hypothetically, lets say i want my car stolen. Where should one leave it?

Sounds like politically induced fud. Gonna skip the article.

But if I lived somewhere that had this problem I’d be wiring-in a kill switch somewhere. No punk is gonna take the time to track it down especially if well concealed.

Aww, this is so adorable 🥰