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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by xlii on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:19AM (#32505958)
That's definitely awful idea but... commercialize police services to some degree.

I.e. have "personal support" division where one can pay per hour to solve small (non violent) problems, such as small-items recovery, acts of vandalisms. Like private detective but with more rights and somewhat co-payed.

It probably wouldn't make any sense if the item in question would be of low value, but if payment for recovering airtagged belongings of 1000$ would be like 50$/h then probably it would be of value.

Yet, deep inside I feel it's a slippery scope into incorporating the police, and I'm not really fan of the idea.

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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by cortesoft on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:52AM (#32506175)
Isn’t that just a private detective? That already exists
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Re:AirTag leads to arrest of airline worker accused of steal... by xlii on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:15AM (#32506771)
Private detective is not subsidized and also they limited with actions. Don't expect private detective to enter someone house to recover AirPods. If police declines further actions even if PI pinpoints their position you're still SOL.
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