Do Criminals care they are being recorded?

[ultrarunner]

Nice Sunday morning here... evidently too nice.

Lots of deliveries daily, Amazon, Post Office, FedEx, Contract Deliveries, etc...

Well, it happened again... Porch Pirates follow the trucks and snatched packages moments after they are placed... maybe a dozen in the neighborhood today 11 to noon this morning.

My car just happened to be in the mix... I was bringing in groceries and had to clean up a leaking carton... car was lock but windows down a little to keep the heat from building up...

A few minutes is all it took... found car doors all open... papers blowing in the wind and everything open... glove boxes, ashtrays, etc... the most valuable was my Stihl Blower with Battery which was too big to get through the seat... but, my Sunday Shoes and Running shoes in a paper bag on the floor behind the front seat and my electrical crimping set that was in the trunk gone.

Cameras up and down the neighborhood have the person on camera with date stamp plus the road cams...

Property theft is no longer prosecuted due to Covid except in unusual circumstances... guess the bad guys know it...

A good chance for an encounter... blind road with only one way out... maybe it is good I arrived after the deed was done?

Co Worker had the Suburban taking right from driveway Thursday... again all on Cam and reported...

That makes the second auto theft I know this week.

Be safe...

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Time to move out of there son.

I don't miss the big cities AT ALL.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's been said in the past that no matter how harsh the punishment, it doesn't work without the fear of getting caught.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Probably best you were not around to stop them. You would likely end up in jail.......

Covid isn’t the problem preventing actions against the thieves. California and several other states have pretty well given the green light to the thieves with a variety of policies. The thieves are probably betting on the odds that little attention will be given to the case. I suspect your case will become a file number in the computer system and little else will happen.

Sad to hear of such problems and that your having to deal with them.

 

[Tinhack]

It's been said in the past that no matter how harsh the punishment, it doesn't work without the fear of getting caught.

"getting caught" or getting shot. Too bad you live in California/Washington. Isn't that what you do out there--Share your money and property with everybody else? :laughing:

There's enough daily gunfire within ear-shot to keep most thieves away from my area. Even the mailbox thieves have moved on. Or took up a new trade.

 

[MossRoad]

Do Criminals care they are being recorded?

Of course not.

I was on a jury where they show us a video from a 7/11 camera where a cro magnon-looking guy (completely unique looking guy with protruding brow bone, I'm not kidding) pulls up right in front of the doors in a (I kid you not) purple Lincoln. A man and his kid exit the store and the caveman calls them over to the car. The dad and the caveman exchange words, the dad leans closer to the car, they talk a little more, and then the caveman stabs him in the face! Dad jumps back and the caveman backs the purple Lincoln out and drives off.

Dad tells the same story in court.
Son tells the same story in court.
License plate of the car matches to a purple Lincoln that belongs to the caveman's mom.
Prosecutors bring in a kid that was living in the caveman's garage (kind of a cave) and testifies that the caveman came home in the purple Lincoln about 10 minutes after the "alleged" incident, made the kid get in the car, drove out on the bypass around town, and made the kid throw a knife out the window.

Well, that's that. We head to the jury room, elect a foreman, take a quick vote and 9-1 guilty.
Everyone looks at the one juror you'd expect to be the idiot (she was late for jury duty and mouthed off to the bailiff).
She says she doesn't think the prosecutor proved the case.
:mur:

Had 9 of us not heatedly and uniformly told her she was an idiot, we'd have had to declare a hung jury. She finally gave in. I've never seen anything like it.

We give the judge our verdict and he tells us now is the time he'd normally thank us and release us, but he now has to tell us that this is the third guilty verdict the caveman had received in a string of stabbing/robberies over a few day period, and now he's up for 3 strikes-you're out portion of the festivities, and we'd get to be the one's that decide how much of a possible 60 year sentence this 18 year old is gonna serve. We all give juror #10 the stink eye. The defense attorney calls time-out, we get sent back to the jury room and they serve us pizza.

Hour later the judge comes in, takes off his robe, grabs a slice and tells us the kid copped a plea and will spend 20 years in prison, which will be less than 10 years with good behavior. So he'll be out of prison by 26 or 27 years old, probably get his G.E.D., get out, get a job, go back to crime and be back in the system within 2 years.

So there you have it. On the chance they might get caught, and today's good chance there will be irrefutable video evidence, and on the chance they might make it to a jury trial, and on the chance they might get found guilty, they'll plea deal out to what amounts to about the same amount of time someone spends in college and grad school for stabbing and robbing 3 people in a week.

Your shoes, tools and a co-worker's vehicle are the equivalent of pocketing a candy bar.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^

The saddest part is that he will probably eat healthier and get better care in those ten years than at any other time of his life.

 

[buck12]

I hate that for you and your neighbors. If your community won’t protect you and your property I would have to move.

 

[ultrarunner]

Maybe we are frogs in water and don't realize we are slowly being cooked?

Lots of national stores pulling out... Walmart, Home Depot, Walgreens, CVS, etc... theft or over run by unrest or transients frequently cited...

I don't blame Law Enforcement because they don't have community support...

Property Crime, Traffic Stops are the lowest of priorities...

One video clearly shows the vehicle with driver getting out and 35 seconds later returning with a armful of porch boxes...

Again plenty of time stamped pictures today...

Ring #AlwaysHome

On a side note... too many of my visitors have had otherwise wonderful first visits to CA tainted by smash and grabs or pickpockets... could be why rents in SF down 30+ percent year over year and a lot of real estate hitting the market now which is unusual for mid October.

Cameras do seem ineffective with present circumstances.

 

[MossRoad]

We had a Target store here about 25-30 years ago that got shoplifted out of business.