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Re:A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Col... by reaperducer on Saturday December 18, 2021 @10:59PM (#29611184)
If your car is stolen, there is very little chance the cops will actually help you recover it.

I was very surprised to read in a big city newspaper recently that the city's police department had a 70-something percent success rate in recovering stolen cars and returning them to their owners.

I was really shocked, because I just assumed that it would be like that scene in The Big Lebowski where the cop laughs when the guy who's car was stolen asks if they have any leads. It turns out that's not the reality at all.

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Re:A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Col... by lph on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:28AM (#29612118)
Lots of stolen cars are used for joyriding or other crimes and then abandoned. The "recovered" statistic includes a lot of "your car was found six weeks later, trashed, in an industrial parking lot".
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Re:A deep dive on a Facebook reseller of bikes stolen in Col... by reaperducer on Sunday December 19, 2021 @10:28AM (#29614645)
I don't think anyone is expecting the police department to return a stolen car washed, detailed, and with a new Christmas tree air freshener.
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