Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief

Post by skyyler » Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 9:49 PM UTC

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> I've come to believe that acceptance of crime is a choice by officials. Many low level crimes I've witnessed are trivial to catch. > And it's only a handful of people engaged in this low level crime. Arrest a few. And if they have a dozen prior arrests, like many of them do, keep them in jail for a while. The USA easily has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, and yet Americans like this say…

> Their solution to this high level of crime is yet more incarceration. True, more incarceration doesn't seem to fix anything. However less incarceration also does not fix anything (see downtown San Francisco). > Finland and Norway have a much lower rate of incarceration Finland and Norway are effectively monocultures. They don't have the same social issues we do. Look at any 1st world monoculture and you see the sam…

Post by lazyasciiart » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

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Seattle thought about doing that but reactionaries framed it as defunding the police department so they elected a more conservative council who moved it back.

> reactionaries framed it as defunding the police department Couldn't one hit back by increasing funding for the resulting police and traffic enforcement departments?

Post by lazyasciiart » Sun, Aug 25, 2024, 10:45 PM UTC

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The US is strangely staunchly opposed to traffic cameras, whereas you barely ever see cops on the roads in many EU countries, and yet traffic tickets flow abundantly.

It's not strange at all. Driving is dangerous enough as it is. Adding the extra anxiety of getting lit up by a speed-limit camera for accidentally exceeding the speed limit does not make it safer. Plus, we Americans are inventive. If there were no traffic cops, the wealthy and mischievous would simply modify their cars to hide their license plates when driving past speeding cameras on their normal route.

Post by pj_mukh » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:07 PM UTC

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I've come to believe that acceptance of crime is a choice by officials. Many low level crimes I've witnessed are trivial to catch. For instance, find out where porch thieves like to hit. Plant a package there and park a patrol car there for a few hours and chances are you'll catch someone. Or put in a tracker. A cop can get a bike stolen in hours in the right neighborhoods in NYC. If a youtuber can park their car wit…

In California, state law holds that stealing merchandise worth $950 or less is just a misdemeanor, which means that law enforcement probably won’t bother to investigate, and if they do, prosecutors will let it go. Most packages are probably under the $950 threshold, so there is no enforcement. Why bother investigating and arresting when the DA won't prosecute and they'll be let out immediately?

Post by Wytwwww » Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 7:37 PM UTC

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I think it's because policing in general is not at the standard it once was. Currently police are only rewarded for "big busts", but it's the smaller crimes that make all the difference to the individual. In the UK for example, only something like 4% of burglaries get investigated at all. We're talking about the police not turning up at all. A neighbour down the street had a car stolen from their drive, under no less…

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