Calif cops are revenue officers.
A tow is $550 and each night in impound is $70.
Retrieving an essential item like a wallet from an impounded car is impossible.
If you’re illegal often the car isn’t towed.
Yup, because "they" know no one will come to get the damn thing. I remember years back when travelling to CA to see family with my then fiancee, I told her, watch, we'll hit the I-5 and there will be a beat up clunker with an engine fire on the side of the road. We weren't on the I-5 for five minutes when low and behold, bunch of illegals waving their flannels trying to fan the fires out. My point is, a lot of the vehicles illegals drive cost more to impound than the damn thing is worth.