Posted on 12/11/2017 9:55:28 AM PST by artichokegrower
Auto burglars are having a field day in the Palo Alto area.
They come from as far away as Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville and San Francisco, several law enforcement officials say.
Their preferred M.O is smashing a car window and grabbing whatever valuables they find inside.
“It’s a huge problem with no end in sight,” said Wayne Benitez, a patrol sergeant with the Palo Alto Police Department.
Benitez, who has been on the front lines of law enforcement for nearly 30 years, said that under new laws, particularly Propositions 47 and 57, criminals are not going to jail for property crimes, and they know it.
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Years ago there was a garbage strike in NYC——and also much theft from cars.
Some smart person advised New Yorkers to gift wrap their garbage and just leave it in their car.
Garbage problem solved. :-)
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Not much new here. I moved out of midtown Palo Alto in 1983 because our cars were parts depots for the East Palo Alto crowd. Over a period of months, they stole the front bumper, off-road lights, air cleaner, and center console out of my Jeep CJ-7 over a period of time. They can-openered the sheet metal on my wife’s Jetta, then proceeded to demolish the plastic dash to appropriate the Blaupunkt radio / cassette player. I woke up one Sunday and said “That’s it, we are out of here.”
Sounds like a higher class of criminal is making its way to PA from Oakland, Richmond, Emeryville and San Francisco. But they do have one thing in common with the bros from EPA.
I think you are thinking of Fremont, not PA.
All those liberals up there in that area are the cause of their own problem. They have to live with it, or as good activists get the laws changed back so the police can do their jobs.
Who knows!? Enough of them get hit they might get to work on the problem, but so many liberals is a clue nothing will happen.
> Dye packs, exploding goods... <
California does not have time to prosecute grand theft auto. But leave a dye pack in your car, and you’d be charged with 10 different felonies.
It’s amazing that California voters, who only a few years ago approved the Three Strikes law to get recidivists off the streets, would vote for such a law. I suspect our new “open primary” system may be to blame, at least in part. It resulted in a race between two Democrats for California’s US Senate seat, with no write-ins being counted, so in last year’s general election, many Republicans probably stayed home.
> Check out the “ Trunk monkey” video on google <
That’s some seriously funny stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyh0bG7FWJg
we know a fellow who got so tired of having to replace his entire front door .. frame locks and all... when the EPA burglars kept breaking in to clean out his house (while he was away at work), that he finally put a big sign on his front door... “Dear Burglars, PLEASE don’t break down the damned door! Its open...”
We should celebrate the vibrant diversity !!!
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Just think of the cultural enrichment.
Benitez, who has been on the front lines of law enforcement for nearly 30 years, said that under new laws, particularly Propositions 47 and 57, criminals are not going to jail for property crimes, and they know it.
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Even Stevie Wonder could have seen that one coming, and he’s a liberal.
Trunk Monkey was hilarious - never seen it before ! Thanks !!!
At least a couple of catalytic converters were stolen in daylight at a university parking lot.
There were regular patrols and usually people always around.
Nope the Va is in Palo Alto not Fremont and have spent lots of time there.
As we would drive through ‘East Palo Alto’, my father an ex NYPD Cop, would tell us to lock our car door and role up our window.
Also agree about Fremont was Shocked when had occasion to go there few years ago.
My mother told me a story when I was a kid. They briefly lived in NYC with my older sisters when my sisters were babies. One time the babies did a disgusting diarrhea crap while in the car, and rather than keep the cloth diapers for later cleaning, my mom shoved them in a paper bag, bundled it and stuck it in a garbage receptacle on a NYC Manhattan sidewalk. As they drove away, they spotted someone pulling the bundle out of the receptacle and furtively walking off with it. Bon appetite!
:-)
“Are they carpooling and making use of public transportation in their daily commutes?”
= = =
The burglars from LA are eagerly awaiting the Bullet Train.
Yep! Fremont is full of muzzies, a quick ride from there across the Dumbarton Bridge brings them to East Palo Alto, a black ghetto. Two reasons why I use the San Mateo Bridge rather than the Dumbarton Bridge, even if it takes longer to go where I'm going. I have a sister living in Fremont, and have seen it change from a white community to mostly minorities over the last fifty years. As for East Palo Alto, one time I had to stop on an empty tank after crossing the Dumbarton Bridge and stopped in a gas station in East Palo Alto after midnight. Feared for my life, and that was maybe forty years ago, it was always a bad place.
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