Minnesota anticipated current wave of auto thefts. Then lawmakers scrapped a tool to fight it.

KSTP5 ^ | Dec 7 2022 | Eric Rasmussen and Ricky Campbell

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Surveillance footage shows the last time anyone saw Vada Haxton’s car in one piece: her red Toyota Camry being carried by a tow truck into a Maple Grove scrap recycling facility in February.

Haxton later received a surprising letter from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that her car had been scrapped just seven months after she reported it stolen.

By the time police responded, it was too late. Her car was gone.

“I was holding out hope because they said, like, what usually happens is the cars get recovered within a couple months,” Haxton said. “It just never really did.”

Haxton’s car was one of more than 3,800 vehicles reported stolen in Minneapolis last year alone — part of a crime wave that is challenging agencies across the state trying to crack down on everything from armed carjackings to national theft rings involving catalytic converters.

5 INVESTIGATES found lawmakers anticipated a surge in auto-related thefts nearly a decade ago when they passed a law that changed how scrap yards report purchases.

[alstewartfan]

Let it all burn, boys and girls. Anarchy is the future, until the totalitarians take FULL control.

[EEGator]

I know a LE tool.

Follow young, skinny black males.

[Red in Blue PA]

Years from now people will argue over the definition of our current time.

Kakistocracy or ochlocracy?

[realcleanguy]

The law passed so they didn’t have to be responsible. It’s a shame that soon anarchy will rule in most Democrat run cities, no accountability, full on corruption and drugs flowing. They will become like cities in Mexico, where the military will have full on gun battles with Cartels daily. Complete Breakdown.

[llevrok]

3800 cars stolen in a year? Peanuts!

King County (Seattle) has about 1600 per MONTH. That’s over 50 a day.

[uranium penguin]

Basically,

Gov will encourage ALL gas powered cars to be “stolen” through lack of meaningful prosecution.

These will be chopped up and sold for parts in different countries. Essentially consequence free money maker for criminals.

Then US owners will be forced into buying an EV.

Got to love the “green agenda”.

[RedMonqey]

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.he center will not hold”

[BitWielder1]

So they want to register all guns so they can be tracked but cars already *are* registered but they still fail to track them.
Until it's too late.

[Roccus]

Queens 1991, Dad’s car was stolen from in front of his house. According to the paperwork uncovered later, it was towed away the next day by the Traffic dept. 🙄 for illegal parking in Manhattan and placed in a PD impoundment lot back in Queens, 😒 a short distance from Dad’s home. A month later, the day after he gets his check from the insurance co. Dad received a Final Notice for non-payment of a parking ticket issued in Manhattan the day after the robbery as well as a bill for “storage” at the PD lot. He goes to the lot with his papers, talks with the attendant, sees the vehicle and is permitted to recover personal items from it. The story told by NYPD is that the car had stolen PA plates on it when it came in and they had no way of knowing how or who to reach to claim it.😜
HOWEVER, he was not allowed to take back his car. It seems the vehicle has just been sold to an auction company in upstate NY and ONLY dealers are allowed to participate in the auction.😝

By this point Dad was just happy to get the parking ticket, late fees and storage fees rescinded.