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Car break-ins in San Francisco are rampant. Will a $100,000 reward help?
https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/Car-break-ins-100000-reward-mayor-thefts-crime-16546117.php ^ | October 19, 2021 | Michelle Robertson

Posted on 10/19/2021 2:01:45 PM PDT by KingofZion

On Tuesday morning, Mayor London Breed announced a new, privately funded reward of up to $100,000 leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals involved in organized crime rings, which the mayor's office says fuels automobile burglaries.

The reward is funded by "private donors in the hospitality and tourism industry," per a press release. The mayor's office did not immediately return a request for more information about these "private donors."

According to the release, the San Francisco Police Department and other regional law enforcement agencies have identified "fewer than a dozen regular auto burglary crews responsible for the large majority of auto burglaries that have plagued Bay Area cities in recent years."

More than $225,000 in reward money has been raised, the mayor's office said. Only those that "provide accurate and transparent information will be compensated up to $100,000."

“The frequent auto burglaries in San Francisco are not victimless crimes, they have real financial and emotional consequences for the victims and we’re continuing to work to hold people who commit these crimes accountable,” said Breed in a statement. “These break-ins hurt our residents, especially working families who do not have the time or money to deal with the effects, as well as visitors to our City whose experiences are too often tarnished after an otherwise positive experience."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; catalytic; crime; dystopia; organizedcrime; theft
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To: KingofZion

Catalytic converter theft going big time near us. Mini hydraulic, Jack ryobi battery reciprocating saw........ Gone. Why we park in the garage. But not the only reason of course.


21 posted on 10/19/2021 2:17:33 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: KingofZion

Someone broke into my daughter’s car in Richmond and stole her Aldi’s quarters. Don’t spend that $1.25 in one place.


22 posted on 10/19/2021 2:18:59 PM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: KingofZion
reward of up to $100,000 leading to the arrest and conviction

That’s silly. If by some miracle someone were arrested and charged, he would never be prosecuted, so there’s zero chance of a conviction and payout. What a scam.

23 posted on 10/19/2021 2:19:14 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: rktman

Yeah when you grab the cat off a pickup truck or Suburban you don’t even need a jack.
I’m waiting for some saw blade outfit to start advertising “cuts thru exhaust pipes like butta”


24 posted on 10/19/2021 2:19:53 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: KingofZion

May I suggest a healthy bounty and no limit on tags?

5.56mm


25 posted on 10/19/2021 2:21:04 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: nascarnation

Folks have them on home security cams. Ya gotta go outside folks.


26 posted on 10/19/2021 2:23:31 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: KingofZion

Probably.

Offer $100,000 reward to everyone who can prove they stole a car. Then arrest them.

Offer $100,000 reward to anyone who can steal a particular car sitting on a particular street. Arrest anyone who tries.

Offer $100,000 reward to anyone who reveals the location of a chop shop after verification.

Offer $100,000 reward to operators of a chop shop for a reduced sentence if they help arrest everyone who brings a stolen car to them.


27 posted on 10/19/2021 2:23:41 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: KingofZion

It won’t help much if the car break-ins are decriminalized, or they’re immediately released under cashless bail “reform”.


28 posted on 10/19/2021 2:23:53 PM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: DoughtyOne
"I guess they’re giving Social Workers new powers these days."

I'm betting the majority of non-violent crimes aren't even recorded in the official records anymore. That way a city can claim that crime is down. That's what's happened in New York City. If you don't produce an official record of a crime, it basically didn't happen.

29 posted on 10/19/2021 2:24:54 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

I agree.

And then the victims aren’t actually victims anymore.

Their stuff is gone, and they may have a few broken bones,
but hey, they should be happy to be alive.


30 posted on 10/19/2021 2:26:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: KingofZion

better idea

steal the whole car


31 posted on 10/19/2021 2:28:27 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: ConservativeMind
It was due to the tremendous car break-in rate we’d read.

Before I retired from a job working in downtown San Francisco, I'd walk to nearby restaurants for lunch with co-workers. Every day we'd see broken window glass on sidewalks because of thieves breaking into cars. Literally every block had broken glass at the curb. My daughter and her family came to visit two years ago, rented a SUV, and the side window got broken and the car was robbed. Granddaughter cried because her backpack was taken. Thieves like to target rental cars because visitors leave stuff in the cars. But thievery is everywhere now; a neighbor had their car stolen from their own driveway this week.

32 posted on 10/19/2021 2:33:37 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: KingofZion

A few dead perps left chillin’ at the scene will send a more, uhhh, CONVINCING message.

Bodies on the street have that effect.


33 posted on 10/19/2021 2:33:57 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: KingofZion
This will be declared a racist program when all the perps turn out to be Black.
Then, they'll not charge all those caught and release them.
34 posted on 10/19/2021 2:42:59 PM PDT by blam
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To: KingofZion

As utterly depraved as the Gay State is I thank God every day that I’m not living in Kalifornia.


35 posted on 10/19/2021 2:43:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: dfwgator

You couldn’t make the Dirty Harry movies these days... ESPECIALLY in San Fran.


36 posted on 10/19/2021 2:45:06 PM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: ConservativeMind

Crooks target out of state license plates. They know they can get away with it. Hence the hospitality rewards are posted.


37 posted on 10/19/2021 2:45:41 PM PDT by refermech
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To: matt04

My brother and his wife are in the building trades; several years ago they went to a convention in SF. The best time to network with others is in the bar/restaurant; he couldn’t even do that because he was constantly being harassed by homosexuals and he is not homosexual at all. He got so angry and disgusted he left the next day; his wife got so angry and disgusted she left the following day.

Mention SF to either one of them, they curse and spit.


38 posted on 10/19/2021 2:56:28 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: dfwgator

39 posted on 10/19/2021 2:58:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: KingofZion

Reason number 316 why I’m glad I don’t live in SF. Living in rural South Carolina, I’m about as far away from that mess, including the whole state, as I can get.


40 posted on 10/19/2021 2:58:56 PM PDT by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed, the more evidence I see supporting my decision. Psalm 144:5-8)
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