the employee reportedly told them to "get a warrant," leaving Ablhd with no choice but to drop approximately $112 on the service in order to get his vehicle's location.
So why didn't he just get a warrant? The surveillance video provided clear evidence of a crime.
Only takes a couple of hours to chop a car down to enough parts to make it hard to find.
Thieves aren't dumb -- I mean, plenty of them are, but plenty of them are smart enough to also know there are tracking devices in common consumer vehicles. Give them enough time and they can find and remove or disable such trackers.
OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.
I don't think it's unreasonable for getting a warrant to take a couple of hours. We want judges to be able to think at least a little about each of their cases.
OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.
Can you get a police response in time to move on that information? In the world of police response priorities, I can totally understand that a stolen vehicle (even with active tracking in progress) pretty low on the list. Active car jacking, send a unit to respond. Reporting a car theft from a shopping mall parking lot, send a unit when available.
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So why didn't he just get a warrant? The surveillance video provided clear evidence of a crime.
Only takes a couple of hours to chop a car down to enough parts to make it hard to find.
Thieves aren't dumb -- I mean, plenty of them are, but plenty of them are smart enough to also know there are tracking devices in common consumer vehicles. Give them enough time and they can find and remove or disable such trackers.
OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.
Maybe, but that's more of an argument against hypothetical police inefficiency than anything else.
I don't think it's unreasonable for getting a warrant to take a couple of hours. We want judges to be able to think at least a little about each of their cases.
I don't think that's the usual cause of the delay, though.
And for time critical issues like this, it shouldn't be.
I expect reforming the justice system might take too long as well.
Can you get a police response in time to move on that information? In the world of police response priorities, I can totally understand that a stolen vehicle (even with active tracking in progress) pretty low on the list. Active car jacking, send a unit to respond. Reporting a car theft from a shopping mall parking lot, send a unit when available.