I’m just trying to be creative and maybe a little idealistic. I’m not saying not to go after the car at all or the person that stole it. But absent another good reason, I wouldn’t chase a horse thief until the horse was run to death; I’d wait and see where the horse turned up, and what finding the horse turned up. Tow drivers have contracts with the city and insurance companies already. People see a tow driver pulling away with a vehicle they know they stole, they’re more apt to hide than fight for it. Once it’s back at the yard, forensics can have at it. Same end result, car’s back, but thief gets arrested at a time and place of the PD’s choosing. Tow driver gets his bounty for a stolen, and Officer Friendly can concentrate on broken windows, assorted nasty scumbags and going home safe.
and the victim of the crime? The owner of the car? You know, whom the police are commission to serve and protect?
How long do they have to walk, ride a bus, a bicycle or whatever until all of those things happen to validate a claim for the insurance company who will only pay pennies on the dollar for the intrinsic value of the stolen article?
You also make a very uneducated deduction that the car will be just sitting around waiting for someone to discover it. Most times it won’t because it goes directly to a chop shop. How is anyone going to recover it when it is in hundreds of pieces scattered all over the continent or world? In the meantime, all of our insurance rates keep climbing and will skyrocket if police simple let car thieves run at their pleasure. Maybe now that it affects you personally, your tune just might change a bit I’m sure.
Most think that new car dealerships make the largest part of their profit from selling cars. Wrongo, they make the greatest part from service and parts. If you would really like to have that point made, I’m sure there are places on the internet in which someone has calculated what the cost of a new car would be if just the parts were purchased at a dealer. That alone would take your breath away and then add to it paying someone to put it all together. Now combine that with there is a very large market where people will shop forever to find a lower cost means to have their car repaired. Therein lies the massive market for stolen parts from chopped cars.
Really,
What if the thief takes it to a chop shop?
No more car.
Or we can prosecute those that run with reckless endangerment, and charge him with attempted murder if he collides with anyone. It is the thugs fault, not the police. It is the thug that decided to place people at risk by running, not the police.
By saying the police will not chase means all the thug need to is run and he will get away. . .hide the license plate before the crime and he is out-of-there.