Car theft is not simple property crime! (SUV crime spree and assault)

[Anonymous]

This car was stolen on Friday and is now the transportation for a group of people touring the city and assaulting victims including landing people in the hospital. I would love to know what happened, investigation wise, in the intervening 96 hours between the original car being borrowed and the crime spree which started yesterday. The standard practice in this city is to file a police report and give that to insurance and then everybody moves on. It is time to acknowledge that these are not all independent events.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/construction-worker-assaulted-in-dc-armed-robbery-spree-using-stolen-lexus-police/3284648/

[Anonymous]

A lot of stolen cars are used in the commission of other crimes.

This one is like Clockwork Orange on wheels, kicking an old man in Bethesda in the face is gratuitous and sadistic.

https://twitter.com/AllisonPapson/status/1628233060540993537

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Easier for the criminal to get away

[Anonymous]

I am actually surprised they pulled a photo of the car. I don't know if the license plate they are showing is the original or another stolen but the photo of the car and the license plate is a surprising development.

I have had two cars stolen in DC. Neither ever was photographed again by any of the DC License Plate Readers. When the cars were recovered MONTHS later, they did not have license plates on them.

Oh and as per OP's statement, yes, DC just took a police report and told me to file a claim with insurance. There was a detective assigned to both cases, but they both said that there was no real investigation. They just wait for the car to turn up abandoned and towed. Then it pops on their radar when the city runs the VIN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am actually surprised they pulled a photo of the car. I don't know if the license plate they are showing is the original or another stolen but the photo of the car and the license plate is a surprising development.

I have had two cars stolen in DC. Neither ever was photographed again by any of the DC License Plate Readers. When the cars were recovered MONTHS later, they did not have license plates on them.

Oh and as per OP's statement, yes, DC just took a police report and told me to file a claim with insurance. There was a detective assigned to both cases, but they both said that there was no real investigation. They just wait for the car to turn up abandoned and towed. Then it pops on their radar when the city runs the VIN.

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In most jurisditions/states, there are known places where burned out cars turn up, when the criminals are done with their crime/s. Police don't bother, sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am actually surprised they pulled a photo of the car. I don't know if the license plate they are showing is the original or another stolen but the photo of the car and the license plate is a surprising development.

I have had two cars stolen in DC. Neither ever was photographed again by any of the DC License Plate Readers. When the cars were recovered MONTHS later, they did not have license plates on them.

Oh and as per OP's statement, yes, DC just took a police report and told me to file a claim with insurance. There was a detective assigned to both cases, but they both said that there was no real investigation. They just wait for the car to turn up abandoned and towed. Then it pops on their radar when the city runs the VIN.

They have license plate readers all over the damn city but are too lazy and dysfunctional to make use of them.

[Anonymous]

I believe a car crime task force was stood up and dismantled in the past 3 years? There's a need, just no one has the appetite to address it