• @Zron@lemmy.world
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      407 months ago

      There’s plenty of cases where they don’t look for cars either.

      Or the cops themselves just straight up steal the car themselves.

      My wife’s car was ordered to be towed by, according to the impound lot, the police.

      Neat thing was that there was no ticket with the car, no police station within 3 miles had a record of a ticket for her or the car, and the area she had parked had no signs that suggested it was illegal to park where she did, nor does the city have any ordinance about overnight parking.

      Best we can figure, is a cop or the tow company that works with the city, just decided to tow a car for funsies and the 500 bucks it took to get it out of impound.

      The police and every organization associated with them are corrupt to the core.

      • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        37 months ago

        Reading that I almost had a thought like it must have been a mix-up or something, but no, US police will murder people with less thought, so that type of fuckery is completely expected.

    • snowe
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      47 months ago

      There is bike registration. https://bikeindex.org

      It’s helped track down bike trafficking gangs sending bikes to Mexico. The police just don’t care at all

      • @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        57 months ago

        Love bikeindex, I actually got my stolen bike back thanks to that site. It was literally two years later but still, the police wouldn’t have even made a report probably in the city I was at, with bike theft so ubiquitous.