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Post by thfuran »

mdpopescu wrote: post #619
zanny wrote: post #540

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The worst part is there is really nothing a normal person can do in a situation like this. You would end up paying substantially more to hire a lawyer to hound the police or pursue the investigation independently, and even if you brought the thieves to justice you would never recoup your costs. I'm not smart enough to come up with solutions but there has to be something better than police unaccountable to anyone with…

This is called "learned helplessness". It's the result of decades of state education teaching you that your only recourse is the nanny state. Funny how that works out.

So you're saying what, that he should have hired mercenaries to kill the guy and get his stuff back?

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Post by rapind »

jakelarkin wrote: post #555
will_brown wrote: post #512

I just told this story on HN, but my car window was smashed on 10/13/18 and the theives got my wallet and house keys. They used my credit card at foot locker (~$500), The Store Manager confirmed two guys made the purchase and corporate said they would turn over the video if police just ask. A month later the bank fraud dept informed me someone was trying to cash a fake check ($1,600) against my account at an ATM usin…

it's a non-violent crime of opportunity. police time is $150/hour at least. all your loses seem to be covered by the banks, aside from the car window, which um happens to people all the time. its the kind of thing they pursue occasionally in realtime or with a sting, but not each individual case. change your key, open a new checking account & close old, lock your credit. and that ends your exposure. you won't get the…

We could accelerate the inevitable consequences of this approach by curating a list of which areas police don't give af, then publish it for enterprising criminals and anyone considering living there.

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Post by [deleted] »

mdpopescu wrote: post #621
nwsm wrote: post #612

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Why do police refuse to look into it? More important cases? Not as easy to find them guilty as it seems?

They're rational. If they look into it, they have to actually work. If they don't, there is zero disadvantage for them. Why WOULD they look into it?

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Post by will_brown »

e40 wrote: post #636
will_brown wrote: post #607

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>What happens next? Well let me tell you of another event that occurred to me in 08/17. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from a gas station, forced to drive my attacker with a gun on my for 30 minutes, eventually after getting off the highway I jumped out of my own car in gear, escaped and called the police. First words out of the sergeants mouth responding, “cut the shit what really happened.” Despite my insistence I’m a…

You've had some really bad luck, Will. Where do you live? I wanna get far away from there.

The irony is I’m born and raised in Miami (where the car break in happened), but believe it or not I had to travel to the 9th safest city in the US to get kidnapped (more accurately that’s where I escaped, and the kidnapping happened in a small beach town 30 minutes south).

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Post by blhack »

will_brown wrote: post #607
iamdave wrote: post #533

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there needs to be a platform to post these videos for the public to crowdsource the identity of these people. And then what? Will the platform also have a portal that will let people en masse vex the local PD with messages containing links to the video until the precinct assigns an officer to the case? What happens next? Is there going to be a timer or some kind of SLA on the platform that notifies people in the crow…

>What happens next? Well let me tell you of another event that occurred to me in 08/17. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from a gas station, forced to drive my attacker with a gun on my for 30 minutes, eventually after getting off the highway I jumped out of my own car in gear, escaped and called the police. First words out of the sergeants mouth responding, “cut the shit what really happened.” Despite my insistence I’m a…

Holy shit. Was this in the US? What city? Can you share more of the story?

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Post by bphogan »

jacquesm wrote: post #568
jakelarkin wrote: post #555

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's a non-violent crime of opportunity. police time is $150/hour at least. all your loses seem to be covered by the banks, aside from the car window, which um happens to people all the time. its the kind of thing they pursue occasionally in realtime or with a sting, but not each individual case. change your key, open a new checking account & close old, lock your credit. and that ends your exposure. you won't get the…

Police and profitability should not be mixed. Whether it costs $50 or $500 / hour to work on a case technically should not even be an issue. The cumulative effect of a lot of small-time crime on a society can be as large as a bank robbery, even if the robbery is a much more serious crime by itself.

But it is an issue because it's tax dollars, and people don't like paying taxes.

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Post by joering2 »

will_brown wrote: post #512

I just told this story on HN, but my car window was smashed on 10/13/18 and the theives got my wallet and house keys. They used my credit card at foot locker (~$500), The Store Manager confirmed two guys made the purchase and corporate said they would turn over the video if police just ask. A month later the bank fraud dept informed me someone was trying to cash a fake check ($1,600) against my account at an ATM usin…

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Post by jon889 »

Clanan wrote: post #579
will_brown wrote: post #512

I just told this story on HN, but my car window was smashed on 10/13/18 and the theives got my wallet and house keys. They used my credit card at foot locker (~$500), The Store Manager confirmed two guys made the purchase and corporate said they would turn over the video if police just ask. A month later the bank fraud dept informed me someone was trying to cash a fake check ($1,600) against my account at an ATM usin…

I'm sorry you're going through this, but I think it's prudent to consider the converse of the situation you're desiring. What if CrowsourcedCriminalMugs.com did exist, and your face was erroneously added to it? Isn't this whole idea just a form of high-tech mob justice?

This is basically the point of the police, imagine this crowdsourcing thing did exist, but instead of everyone being able to see it only a select number of people who had been trained how to capture people and bring them to the courts without harming them could see it and respond. And they got paid to do this by everyone in the local area paying some money for them to do it. That’s what the police should be.

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Post by poundtown »

take one phone and repackage it in its old box. turn it on and throw it into a amazon box and wait. once you have their address you can slowly exact revenge via subtle methods that dont expose you. this glitter method would be like kicking a shark in my neighborhood. made a good vid tho i really enjoyed watching it. esp the fart spray parts.

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Post by garfieldnate »

stingraycharles wrote: post #224
Rainymood wrote: post #16

I'm honestly really shocked by how casually people seem to steal these parcels, like what the hell?

As a European, I'm surprised that the postal services in the US just leave the packages outside, rather than ringing the doorbell and/or delivering it to a neighbor. Over here in The Netherlands, pickup points are common (my local groceries store is one), you can choose your delivery time (also in the evening) and they will deliver it to a neighbor when I'm not home. Why not avoid this whole problem with any of these…

It's funny because I really feel like I had a big downgrade when I moved from Japan to Germany. In Japan they ask you what times you expect to be home and they try to deliver it then. If you are not home, they come back another time. If they try several times and you are not there, then the package is returned. I was shocked when our packages were left with a neighbor here (why would you leave my stuff with a stranger?) and another time was left in the garbage storage area with a note in our mailbox.

I think Europe would have been a lot cooler if I had moved from the US straight there instead of coming from Japan :/

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