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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Canadians aren’t allowed to own shotguns?
” because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”
How do they know that? LOL
I had (when I was young) thought Canada to be a pure filter for freedom in such a harsh RICH terrain....then along comes a castro faggot son pierre bred by a french whore and look at them now tyranny in the snow.
Thought for sure this was a Babylon Bee article…
When I saw the headline, I thought it was from the Bee.
I guess not, sadly.
No offense meant but, are they actually retarded?
why not leave the door unlocked too??? canadians = the new Eloi...
No wonder his wife left him.
Where do I place my wallet etc? Safest to leave it near keys where they will not be disturbed__thieves just want my keys.
Don’t forget to add that Trudeau wants you to put a sign in your front yard that you’ll be gone for several days while leaving your doors unlocked and valuables on the dining room table.
And, if the thieves steal your car and you assault them with rude language, you can go to jail for life.
Back in the USSR the crooks ran free and ran prisons full of political detainees.
Year ago the Wall Street Journal had a story about a man in South Africa who kept a flask of cyanide-lased bourbon in his glovebox.
Then his car was stolen.
Then someone died of poisoning.
So yes, they want something more than the car and that time they got it.
This is NOT the Bee.
Incredible story.
[[” because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”]]
Wow- are the cops there really that ignorant?
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