Posted on 07/09/2025 7:04:39 PM PDT by simpson96
A Toronto police officer suggested that residents leave their car keys by the front door to avoid a home invasion, seemingly to let criminals steal their vehicle if they break in, leave and avoid injuries.
The Toronto Police Service issued a statement Wednesday confirming that an officer made the remarks at a recent community meeting.
The officer suggested “that people leave the keys to their vehicle in a faraday bag by the front door,” the statement said.
“While well meaning, there are also other ways to prevent auto theft motivated home invasions,” it continued.
Faraday bags block signal-duplicating devices used to replicate key fobs which criminals can use to steal vehicles.
In Toronto, home invasions and break-ins for auto thefts rose 400 per cent last year, the Toronto Police Service said.
At an Etobicoke community meeting, Const. Marco Ricciardi is heard saying, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.”
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“They’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else,” he said, which CityNews first reported.
“A lot of them that they’re arresting have guns on them and they’re not toy guns, they’re real guns. They’re loaded.”
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Homeowners in fear for their lives might as well point their finger and go "bang! bang!"
That’ll fly here in Florida.
Oh.
Canada.
People should shoot such criminals.
You might as well tell people to leave the keys in the freaking car, so maybe the criminals won’t break into your house. Better yet, keep your doors unlocked too while you’re at it. Retards.
Anarcho-Tyranny.
Punish the innocent.
Reward the guilty.
I no longer care to protect people from the idiotic decisions they freely make in the ballot box.
and for the rapist?
leave your wife on the front porch, face down?
i guess do the same with your kids for the pedophiles.
gee, those people on the left sure do think of everything...
My car keys are on my nightstand... next to my pistol.
CC
In some places, it is a crime to start one’s car to warm up in the morning. Because..crime. Places such as Denver, CO.
Next year, the cops will just be telling Torontonians to leave their keys in their cars — preferably in the ignition, if keys still go into ignitions.
He has a point, in the late 1960s Houston I would leave my car keys in the ignition and we never had a home invasion, of course the car was never stolen either.
I have a *very* different idea of how to deter home invaders.
Also put your bank cards and credit cards in a clearly marked clip on the front door, and don’t forget to include a list of all PINs and passwords.
Sam Colt had the solution. I suggest they try his approach.
“””In some places, it is a crime to start one’s car to warm up in the morning. Because..crime. Places such as Denver, CO.”””
And Minneapolistan where it is cold six months out of the year.
Why not just leave them in the car?
This is basically the cops telling you they can’t do their job.
The first really good argument I’ve heard for defunding any police.
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