Posted on 03/14/2024 7:35:13 PM PDT by bitt
In the face of an alarming rise in car thefts, Toronto Police Service (TPS) Constable Marco Ricciardi has offered a controversial tip to residents: leave car keys in the front door to avoid violent home invasions.
During a community safety meeting in Etobicoke, Constable Ricciardi addressed the issue, stating, “To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”
In short, don’t make it hard for thieves to steal your car. This is what an unarmed society looks like.
This suggestion has come as Toronto grapples with a car theft rate that sees a vehicle stolen every six minutes, a costly crime spree racking up nearly $1 billion annually, according to the Canadian Finance and Leasing Association (CFLA).
Toronto has witnessed a 400% surge in home invasions and break-ins for auto thefts, underscoring a troubling trend of increased violence and the use of firearms by criminals targeting vehicles, Global News reported.
Toronto Police Service released the following statement:
An officer at a recent community meeting suggested that people leave the keys to their vehicle in a faraday bag by the front door. While well meaning, there are also other ways to prevent auto theft motivated home invasions. For additional context, in Toronto, home invasions and break and enters for auto theft occurrences rose 400 percent in 2023. Police are concerned about an escalation in violence, where all sorts of weapons and firearms are being used to steal vehicles, and that includes during home invasions. While Toronto Police have always advised the public to prioritize your safety over your vehicle, here are ways members of the public can protect themselves, their homes and their vehicles:
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Why not invite thieves to a car dealership where you will BUY THEM A CAR and hand them the keys right there?
Nobody gets hurt.
ping
From the country that could not solve the “Ken and Barbie” murders. Actually he should have been in jail before any of the young girls were tortured and murdered. Barbie was let out of jail after a few years and is roaming free now. https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/the-ken-barbie-killers-where-is-karla-homolka-today
Never thought anything would surpass NYC in the 70s and 80s. I’d drive my 72 Maverick from Queens into the City. I’d park in the garment district. Leave my No Radio Sign on the dash and leave the car unlocked. It was never bothered but then again 72 Mav was hardly a target. Guess I was wrong about some city being worse.
How about setting out chocolate chip cookies and glass of milk as for Santa? As criminals make their rounds they can rest and eat and drink.🍪🍪🥛🥛
If afraid of imminent home invasions, maybe the Canadians can get on the floor, ball up their bodies, grasp their ankles, reach forward with their mouths and kiss their rear ends goodbye.👀👄
Anyone forcing their way into our home making illegal demands will be met with a shotgun. PERIOD. The cops will be called.
If they charge forward or display a weapon they will be given precious metals for their effort.
(Precious metals being lead possibly coated with copper)
Unfortunately it isn’t getting any better.
Canadians aren’t allowed to own shotguns?
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Are crossbows legal?
Better yet, leave the keys to Toronto Police Service Constable Marco Ricciardi’s house. Leave the keys to the mayor’s house too.
What a fantastic idea.
The perp breaks in, picks up everything valuable he can carry,
and then has a free gassed up get-away car.
Dern! Why didn’t I think of that?
Leftists, they have the perfect solution to everything.
I read a story a few years ago about car break-ins in Europe. Improved car security systems were supposedly making criminals angry, and the article said that violent home invasions and rapes had increased. The problem may have spread to Canada.
Too much bacon and bad beer and long winters.
Next he will want you to leave a gun on the front porch to help murderers.
“I’d park in the garment district.”
Street parking? Without commercial plates that must have been at night. Be gone by 07:00.
Appeasement was once called a slippery slope.
if "thieves" come after me or mine, then its on them whatever happens....
but he did it for convenience, not because he was letting thieves steal his car...
Just leave the keys in the ignition and the car door open so the thieves can steal your car with little damage or trouble. And take your front house door off the hinges to prevent damaging break-ins. Place your debit and credit cards and all your cash on the entryway table. That should appease them.
Yeah, but Lot didn’t live in Toronto.
A variation on paying the mob boys for protection.
Paraphrasing Rodney Dangerfield “Take my wallet....please!”
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