Posted on 10/18/2023 12:48:16 PM PDT by Twotone
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has ordered city agencies to stop ticketing cars if they are determined to have been stolen or broken into.
After of a string of 2,000 reported stolen vehicles between May 1 and September 17, 2023, it was determined that more than 400 of those stolen cars received parking citations.
Many victims of vehicle theft have even resorted to checking online ticketing databases as a way to locate their stolen cars.
As reported by KTVU, the city will have to come up with a solution for police and transportation officials to be able to identify a stolen vehicle before a ticket is issued.
On-the-spot observance is difficult to implement, as typically the use of license plate surveillance technology has required multiple reviews by city officials, committees, and a vote from the Board of Supervisors in order to pass laws to use the technology.
“A victim of theft should not have to worry about unpaid citations,” said Mayor Breed.
“It is our responsibility to do better to serve our residents," she added, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
As part of her executive order, the mayor said that the city should be "doing everything it can” to help victims but had fallen short.
“When someone’s car is stolen, our priority should be to help reunite that car with its owner,” the order said. “Today, when someone’s car is stolen, an owner often has limited recourse to identify where that car is. What’s worse, once the car is returned to its rightful owner, the victim may be faced with the burden of parking citations the car received when it was stolen and parked illegally or abandoned.”
The city has become synonymous with homelessness and crime, specifically car break-ins. A sandwich shop owner complained about the rampant homelessness problem when he was assaulted by a man who was urinating on the street in July 2023.
That same month, a roving gang of baseball-bat-wielding kids was reportedly targeting mothers and nannies trying to pick up children from school. The ski-mask-wearing suspects allegedly beat and robbed their victims in broad daylight before they used a stolen car as a getaway vehicle.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that a group of adolescents was likely responsible for the attacks on at least 11 women in the city's Noe Valley, also called "stroller valley" due the number of young families living there.
The mayor gave city officials 45 days to respond to her directive with an automated system to solve the problem.
San Francisco Police: “We can’t find your stolen car but we can write lots of tickets on the car”
If only there was some serial number or license plate number they could identify.............
ticketing a stolen or derelict car generate no revenue but it does look good on efficiency reports.
Everything EXCEPT ending the BLM's stupid "defund the police," doubling police funding, backing the police, and letting them get tough on crime.
If I report that my car has been stolen ... does that mean I can park anywhere I want? For free?
What an absolute liberal hell-hole.
“”””San Francisco Police: “We can’t find your stolen car but we can write lots of tickets on the car””””
Sounds like the same technology they had in 1923, a 100 years ago.
Gee. San Francisco is always full of brilliant ideas.
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Hahahahahahaha
Very soon there will be a movie - Escape TO Alcatraz. The people who cannot afford to leave San Francisco and Kalifornia will band together in the Dystopian present and voluntarily enter the prison. Once the population is large enough, strict rules will be instituted. No tents, no looting. Most crimes, large and small, will have a sentence of deportation back to San Francisco. If someone has been removed from Alcatraz, one can re-enter after 5 years, or if they can swim from Marina Green to Alcatraz.
If you can’t beat ‘em….quit trying.
My exact first thought - and exactly why they are stopping the citation writing
That should be a real deterrent.
Very soon there will be a movie - Escape TO Alcatraz
Democrat scum intend to criminalize cars.
Two things here:
If they know the car is stolen, why ticket so the owner has to pay for the service of protecting his property by the police. I thought that what taxes were for.
If they know the car is stolen, they can either stake it out or tow it because they are not doing their job anyway.
Either way, no ticket and no towing fee.
wy69
IF the ticket helps to find the stolen car-—FINE.
JUST DO NOT CHARGE THE OWNER.
Then kick them in the nuts when they come pick it up?
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