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[quote=Anonymous]We've been the victim of car theft in DC and it is horrible. We worked hard to maintain our old car in good condition (no eating in the backseat kids!). It was our only vehicle. It fit our lifestyle perfectly. We had to use rentals for a while after which are expensive, a PITA, and they did that thing where they lost track of one of the cars we turned back in and reported it stolen (by us). Total hassle. We were reimbursed a pittance by insurance. We had to buy a new car which we don't like (better, since it might get stolen) and do it during the pandemic and still dealing with the hassle of the paperwork etc. with an opaque DMV. While we weren't hurt, I hate the idea if our college age kids had been coming in at night and bumped into the thieves in the driveway and the chaos that may have ensued. I hated waking up and looking out of the window and seeing no car and knowing we were silently violated during the night. The lackadaisical police response was saddening. It's not their fault really though. The car theft unit was disbanded years ago; it's not city policy to pursue these cases in any way, so why would they take it upon themselves to do so for our car? Our car was recovered when it eventually ended up in a tow lot, trashed. They have no coordination between accrued ticketing, street cameras, towing and police work/car recovery--we basically tracked it down ourselves by sleuthing various websites-vainly hoping it would still be in usable condition. If our family were in a more fragile economic condition (the car served our means of income as cleaners, uber drivers, delivery, or primary means to get to work) it could have thrown our economic situation into peril. I have been in the "working poor" and there is a thin margin for recovery when "things go wrong", like an illness or having your car boosted.  MPD needs to mount a FULL car theft unit.[/quote]

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