DC on pace for 6,000 stolen cars this year

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Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Will police even bother to recover a stolen car if they know the location? I certainly would not go into the dangerous parts of DC by myself to attempt to recover a car.

I live in arlington and have a few friends whose cars have been stolen here and they have traced them to dc. Police didn’t help. They went and retrieved the cars themselves in very bad areas. Pp is right that you don’t want it back.

+1 loudoun. An acquaintance watched her stolen car make its way to DC via an AirTag and police wouldn’t intervene.

You can’t chase a car that is stolen. The thief would take off and the result ls could be fatal to innocents. Remember what happened recently to the car chase in Rock Creek.

The person who caused the wreck in Rock Creek *was not* chased. These lunatics are going to wreck regardless of whether or not they are chased, so why not just try and catch them?

We need bollards throughout the city. You just deploy bollards around the stolen car area and then funnel vehicles through license plate reader intersections with cameras designed to queue police immediately. When a stolen car passes a license plate reader the bollards one block down are employed and keep the cars contained until police arrive.

It is 2023 and our city is making money hand over fist on traffic cameras. Car theft and car jacking is simply a matter of choice. Our city would rather it be a citizen problem rather than force the city to focus on anything not related to development.

The city cannot even maintain splash parks for kids and you think they could install and maintain a sophisticated network of electronically activated hydraulic bollards all over the city? Seriously? What kind of fantasy nonsense is this? The most likely outcome of any DC bollards not operated by the Secret Service or Capitol Police is that they would unexpectedly engage and seriously injure people. While it’s fun to imagine that they would only be a hazard to cars because apparently people in cars deserve to get hurt, they would equally or even more so be a hazard to cyclists.

[Anonymous]

Cyclists love bollards.

We all love bollards.

Bring on the bollards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Will police even bother to recover a stolen car if they know the location? I certainly would not go into the dangerous parts of DC by myself to attempt to recover a car.

I live in arlington and have a few friends whose cars have been stolen here and they have traced them to dc. Police didn’t help. They went and retrieved the cars themselves in very bad areas. Pp is right that you don’t want it back.

+1 loudoun. An acquaintance watched her stolen car make its way to DC via an AirTag and police wouldn’t intervene.

You can’t chase a car that is stolen. The thief would take off and the result ls could be fatal to innocents. Remember what happened recently to the car chase in Rock Creek.

The person who caused the wreck in Rock Creek *was not* chased. These lunatics are going to wreck regardless of whether or not they are chased, so why not just try and catch them?

We need bollards throughout the city. You just deploy bollards around the stolen car area and then funnel vehicles through license plate reader intersections with cameras designed to queue police immediately. When a stolen car passes a license plate reader the bollards one block down are employed and keep the cars contained until police arrive.

It is 2023 and our city is making money hand over fist on traffic cameras. Car theft and car jacking is simply a matter of choice. Our city would rather it be a citizen problem rather than force the city to focus on anything not related to development.

The city cannot even maintain splash parks for kids and you think they could install and maintain a sophisticated network of electronically activated hydraulic bollards all over the city? Seriously? What kind of fantasy nonsense is this? The most likely outcome of any DC bollards not operated by the Secret Service or Capitol Police is that they would unexpectedly engage and seriously injure people. While it’s fun to imagine that they would only be a hazard to cars because apparently people in cars deserve to get hurt, they would equally or even more so be a hazard to cyclists.

What is your problem with bollards? You sound like a bigot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cyclists love bollards.

We all love bollards.

Bring on the bollards.

I don’t have a problem with them but cyclists cannot seem to stop running into them and injuring themselves.
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20033788/paralyzed-cyclist-sues-unmarked-bollard/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cyclists love bollards.

We all love bollards.

Bring on the bollards.

I don’t have a problem with them but cyclists cannot seem to stop running into them and injuring themselves.
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20033788/paralyzed-cyclist-sues-unmarked-bollard/

Cyclists will crash into anything. I have been hit once as a pedestrian by a cyclist as I was crossing the street in a crosswalk, and twice while driving and stopped in traffic. All three times the cyclist just hit me. So I have no doubt they would have trouble hitting bollards designed to protect them.