Cops Are Shooting GPS Bullets at Criminals’ Vehicles

Qinsp said:
Southern California, Corona PD and Riverside County Sheriff.

Better list:

Guy starts a Dell account in our name and orders $25k worth of goods. Has it listed to deliver to an address 20 miles away, in the PD juristiction. Dell calls me, I cancel. I call Sheriff. Nothing.

Find trash dumped on our property including mail addressed to the resident. Nothing.

Employee photoshops paycheck and tries to cash it. Store apprehends her, she is released no charges.

Mailboxes broken into often. Riverside Hospital calls and says they are treating a guy for a serious wound, and found our mail (and others) in his pocket. There is blood on the mailbox and ground. I call the PD, the PD says Post Office. I call Post Office, they say PD.

Girl gets mangled by idiot driver in front of our farm. Girl was in front of car on shoulder, 8' from lanes. Driver crushed her legs. She is thrown into runoff ditch. I supply med attention, PD shows up and refuses to help. Does not investigate or arrest driver. No sobriety test.

Daughter and nephews hunting out back. Legally. Sheriff officers trespass without notification, and draw down on the kids with AR's, shotguns, and pistols. Tells them to drop their shotguns in the mud, then lay face down in mud. These are 12-16 year olds with legal hunting licenses. Officer threatens to arrest me when I ask to speak with his boss.

3 am, lights shine in bedroom. I go out, and there is a Honda Civic on my front lawn with the engine running. There is a man slumped over the wheel. Call cops. They find the guy is drunk, an illegal, no license. They drive him home. "We didn't see him driving!" "Uh, what about the car on my lawn? Isn't it illegal to park on people's grass?" "Not our problem." After going up the chain of command, they agree to impound the vehicle, only after I told them I'd use the tractor and drag it off my property and back onto the street.

Probably a few I forget over the decades, but if you are assuming the PD is your primary law enforcement entity, I'd suggest you forget that idea. That was 1960.
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Wow. I knew this would happen but Southern California law & order has collapsed.

No wonder no one spoke up in defense of California in another forum when I had doubts about California's future: it is already gone.

The Federal government has also withdrawn from many border regions, putting up signs (in English, so you know who it's for) advising citizens to stay out
 
Cops don't care about your safety or your property. They do care, however, about busting pot heads so they can beef up their arrest numbers and get more federal "war on drugs" money. Its all about the money.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Where the hell are you from? Some failed former Soviet state?

It makes me glad that the police here still police things. The police investigate all of those things here, because that's what they're for.
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I'll have what you're smoking man, that shit's hilarious...

In my city, unless it's a violent crime or you're uber connected, the cops don't show up at all.
 
Lot of love in this thread.

Guess everyone feels there problem should go to the top of the list and everyone else's problem should be pushed to the bottom.

They do a thankless job.
 
techrat said:
I'll have what you're smoking man, that shit's hilarious...

In my city, unless it's a violent crime or you're uber connected, the cops don't show up at all.
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I had a break in at my office and the York Regional Police spent a whole day processing the office over three missing PCs. They arrested the guys that did it when they tried to pawn the machines.

My wife's car was stolen and ditched (I DO mean ditched) near Oshawa and the police processed her car like any other crime scene and arrested the kid that stole it a couple of months later because he got busted in a B&E elsewhere. When they searched his house they found some of my wife's car crap (and it was crap, women shit up their cars horribly), he was convicted.
 
Absolutely. All they are now is a revenue-generator for whatever government they work for. Parking tickets. Speeding tickets. Any other little thing. Real people's muggings, thefts, and property damage? Hell no! They don't care.
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This depends on where you live. I am sure this is true for most of the major cities which are really terrible to live in anyway. But there are many places where this isn't even close to true so there you go. Where I live the local cops are like the FBI, they just don't stop looking for the jerks that are doing stupid shit and it really doesn't matter what it is. They don't catch them all, but they catch enough that no one has many complaints about there work.
 
kirbyrj said:
1. Car chases are not mostly about stolen vehicles.
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Then that leaves fleeing a crime, outstanding warrants, or perp flees a traffic stop, which now becomes fleeing and evading. As for car chases not being about stolen vehicles, almost every car chase I hear about on the news around here involves a stolen vehicle. Maybe people don't steal cars where you are?

2.Thief's DNA in car is not enough to convict because if they've ever had a legal right to use that vehicle their DNA would be present.
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If I had hands instead of wings I'd facepalm. I said if the car was stolen. Why the hell would someone steal their own car? If it's a car they've previously had a legal right to use, then someone else reported it stolen and guess who's going to be at the top of the suspect list?

3. Getting a helicopter in the air isn't like it is on COPS, nor is it even feasible in rural departments. It takes a good 35-40 min if its available which is plenty of time for reasonable doubt to enter a juries' minds.
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If it's fleeing a crime scene such as a murder, robbery, or other felony? Besides, how do you know the time it takes for a police chopper to arrive? Do you fly one for a living, or work ground control for the local PD?

Point is, if you take away police's ability to enter a high speed chase, you encourage criminals to drive fast to evade capture. Not every chase ends in dead people and broken stuff.
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Nobody said it would take away their ability. It's just another tool that can help reduce innocent bystanders getting hurt or killed. I'm not sure why you're so opposed to it.
 
Gavv said:
Lot of love in this thread.

Guess everyone feels there problem should go to the top of the list and everyone else's problem should be pushed to the bottom.

They do a thankless job.
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Apparently you have never seen a cop put his lights on at a red light so they can go across the intersection and pull into the donut shop. Yes, I have personally witnessed this.

There are good cops and bad cops. Unfortunately, experience seems to indicate that there are a lot more of the latter.
 
A friend of mine that I grew up with and best friends with for around 25 years became a cop. After a short time he considered all non cops sub humans and even his own family. Have not spoken to him in many years now. Whats funny is he drunk and used to drink and drive and wrecked every vehicle he owned. He also commited burglary of habitation on several occasions. Yup and he is a police officer now !
 
After reading this thread makes me wonder why everyone doesnt understand the right to own guns is legit because the cops usually dont give a shit, unless there issuing 100.00 tickets for stupid crap like no seat belt on or doing 4mph over the speed limit.
 
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