>>I leave my windows down and doors unlocked so people won’t break the windows to get in the car - which has happened to me twice in the past.
So......I’d get a warning for protecting my property?<<
Exactly. These days radios are electronically linked to their cars — they are useless when taken from the car. Lock the glove box and don’t keep valuables in the trunk and there ain’t nothing to take.
I had a rag top and some a*hole tore through the roof with a blade — cost the insurance company 3 grand and the roof was never quite the same even after the replacement. THEN a friend of mine with a soft top told me that people with rag tops NEVER lock their cars and usually leave the windows down.
I agree this town has too many cops — but the “who should be let go” test has already been performed. Any cop who thinks it is against any law to keep one’s private property locked, unlocked or wide open is too ignorant (and probably stupid) and certainly too idle to be kept on the taxpayers’ payroll.
This goes back to the 60s, when an ad campaign went something like “Help keep a good kid from going bad.”. The idea was, don’t leave car keys in the ignition, and by extension the implication that somehow, it’s the owners fault if the car was stolen. In those days most people still knew what’s what and the public outcry quashed the ad.
For some bizarre reason most cops tend to think this way. Maybe they just see the bad side of people all the time, but a thief is a thief, locks just keep honest people out, and generally make things a lot more complicated.
Us Jeep owners with soft tops never lock our vehicles - lock the doors and you're just asking to get your $2,000 top slashed.