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How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 5 months ago by mp3@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course they will help him with the hope it pans out.

Nah, this is giving cops too much credit. People can have gps coordinates, video of crimes occuring, first and last names of thieves and plently of times cops do literally nothing past filing a report.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yup. My buddy owned a hellcat. That’s a $90k car, with like 800 horsepower. It was stolen. He had an AirTag under the seat, giving him detailed location data. He was on the phone with 911, and they were refusing to do anything about it. Told him to come down to the station and file a police report.

Then he mentioned his handgun was under the seat. Cops were on the scene in less than 2 minutes, with guns drawn.