Where was the BMW recovered?
Gee, mewzilla, have you ever worked Auto Theft in a major city police department? Beleive it or not, most departments don’t concentrate on stolen cars anymore, unless they’re taken in car jackings, as it’s considered a property crime. Bigger departments are busy going after chop shops and the fraudulent, Buy Here Pay Here car dealers that are able to flip VINs and sell stolen cars to drug dealers etc.
Do you think that every department and every property crime that is reported has the team from CSI:Nashville, Vegas or NY coming out there with a full forensic team, a portable DNA lab and an army of Crime Scene techs? Or are those individuals responding to murders, rapes, robberies, home invasions, burglaries? Do they all have the ability to solve every crime in the allotted 45 minutes, with commercials.
I don’t who recovered the car. I don’t know what the circumstances were. I don’t know what time of day it was, but if the Auto Theft guys work during the day and the car was recovered at night, they aren’t getting out of bed. But, if a patrolman ran the tag, it came back stolen, with no discernible way to determine the scumbag had anything to do with it, like any other big city dept(if it was in fact recovered in Nashville) had it towed to an impound yard.
It’s obviously very easy for people like you, who don’t know sh*t about being a cop, to monday morning QB the cops. Especially when you weren’t there or have any idea what they do.
I once had a conversation with a crime scene technician. He confirmed what I’d heard that juries were now starting to almost demand the full blown super high tech CSI treatment for every case. This is absolutely impossible. Most of the stuff they did on CSI was legitimate, but he told me there’s not one crime lab in the country as well equipped as the TV show. And of course, the time requirement is greatly reduced.
There is no possible way to devote total resources to one crime, especially not something as basic as a stolen car.
You should try decaf.