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Old 09-01-2015, 10:17 PM
 
Location: Sylmar, a part of Los Angeles
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San Francisco car burglaries are up 47% this year over 2014 while car thefts have risen 17% and robberies rose by 23%.
In LA overall crime is up 12.7% this year and violent crime rose 21%.
Thats after 12 straight years of crime decreases in LA.
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Old 09-01-2015, 10:19 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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So your saying when you stop locking criminals up for crimes and release criminals from jail and prisonthen more crimes are committed? Who could have possibly predicted this?
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Old 09-01-2015, 10:22 PM
 
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Then I guess it's a good thing I've got a whole brain and not just a half.
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Old 09-01-2015, 11:37 PM
 
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The Bay Area is the car theft capital of the USA and California covers most of the top 10...

My 81 year old Mom had her 14 year old Corolla stolen as well as others I know with similar vintage Honda and Toyota vehicles.

The police are non-pulsed by it... Mom was told it was the second one that morning... doesn't take much if the thief is determined.

Sheriff found mom's 14 weeks after it was stolen... and it was not wrecked or missing many parts... seems someone took it and drove it until it was out of gas and parked it...
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Old 09-01-2015, 11:45 PM
 
Location: So California
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The Bay Area is the car theft capital of the USA and California covers most of the top 10...

My 81 year old Mom had her 14 year old Corolla stolen as well as others I know with similar vintage Honda and Toyota vehicles.

The police are non-pulsed by it... Mom was told it was the second one that morning... doesn't take much if the thief is determined.

Sheriff found mom's 14 weeks after it was stolen... and it was not wrecked or missing many parts... seems someone took it and drove it until it was out of gas and parked it...

Except for they are spending enormous resources on car theft. CHP leads car theft task forces througout California.
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Old 09-02-2015, 12:12 AM
 
Location: Illinois
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San Francisco car burglaries are up 47% this year over 2014 while car thefts have risen 17% and robberies rose by 23%.
In LA overall crime is up 12.7% this year and violent crime rose 21%.
Thats after 12 straight years of crime decreases in LA.
The place is clearly falling apart, and this is one example. There's so much crime and no one's taking much action to remedy it.
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Old 09-02-2015, 12:20 AM
 
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3 things the local police are quick to take action:

Anything involving a firearm

Anything involving children

Anything involving violence... especially Domestic Violence


Property crimes are at the very bottom of the list... at least around here.

We have had several area break ins with no police response... instead the reporting person is told to go online to make a report...

The first thing the officer asked is if Mom was insured and then said to go the station/online and make a report for insurance purposes...
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Old 09-02-2015, 03:04 AM
 
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
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The place is clearly falling apart, and this is one example. There's so much crime and no one's taking much action to remedy it.
What action have you taken to remedy it?
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Old 09-02-2015, 03:46 AM
 
Location: Illinois
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3 things the local police are quick to take action:

Anything involving a firearm

Anything involving children

Anything involving violence... especially Domestic Violence


Property crimes are at the very bottom of the list... at least around here.

We have had several area break ins with no police response... instead the reporting person is told to go online to make a report...

The first thing the officer asked is if Mom was insured and then said to go the station/online and make a report for insurance purposes...
That's some straight up laziness and nonsense. Then the police aren't doing their jobs very well.

Or y'all need to hire some more police officers. Detroit has a police shortage and probably the highest crime rate in the nation. They could definitely use some more staff. Chicago could, too.

This proves that California's not getting its priorities straight. Or if they are, their top priorities aren't anything important. Well as you said, at LEAST they respond quickly to anything involving a firearm, or children. Property crimes count, too, and having a house broken into should also be at the top of the list.

Being told to go online and make a report? Please. By the time the police get to it, the criminals would be harder to catch if so much time passes, unless they can find enough evidence or witnesses.
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Old 09-02-2015, 04:57 AM
 
Location: Tijuana Exurbs
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The victim's are more likely to be middle class or poor because the wealthy live in gated communities or have substantial security systems.

The beauty of Proposition 47 is that it removes the costs of crime from the State's balance sheet (incarceration), and onto the victim's balance sheet (insurance, deductible, replacement costs, added security costs).

But overall, it sounds like a win-win. State politicians can spend more on sexier needs than prisons, and rich rappers with security details and gated compounds can promote ballot propositions that maintain their "cred" with the boyz back in the hood.

With this law, the phrase "That's not a bug, it's a feature!" comes to mind.
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