Whoops
This has happened in one form or another to dozens if not hundreds of officers in scores of Departments:
- Brien Jackson returned to a parking lot at an Orange Line station to find his 1999 tan Toyota Camry stolen.
Officers found it a few days later on the South Side. But then they lost it again.
An officer had parked the recovered car in front of the Englewood District police station where someone apparently stole it a second time. It’s still missing.
And guess who they're blaming?
- Now Jackson and his father have filed complaints with the department's internal affairs office and with the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, saying they have not gotten a satisfactory explanation about how this happened.
Once a car has been boosted, it's susceptible to being stolen again and again. It isn't difficult. The only explanation you're likely to get is, "It was recovered and we don't have the manpower to babysit every recovered car, nor the tow trucks to take it to a secure yard, and even if we did, it would be burgled by the yard employees. Good thing you have insurance!"
If cops start catching time for stolen cars being re-stolen, guess what they aren't going to be looking for any more?
If cops start catching time for stolen cars being re-stolen, guess what they aren't going to be looking for any more?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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If cops start catching time for stolen cars being re-stolen, guess what they aren't going to be looking for any more?
Well, perhaps when you find the stolen car you can just call up the victim and let him know where it is. Let them go and retrieve it.
Another reason not do anything.
If the owner/complainant cannot be contacted prior to the time the officer returns to service, the vehicle will not be towed and the officer will indicate in the Owner/Complainant Notified by COS Box of the Recovered Vehicle Supplementary Report or in the narrative section of the appropriate case report the words "Dispatcher unable to notify owner/complainant."
f 'em ... find it yourself a-hole
Wait, so the office left a stolen car sitting on the street? Unattended and unsecured? Column peeled? More than likely so he can go checkoff...? Stay with the car until StreetsSans gets there, WTF is wrong wit you?
Stay fetal but if a job lands on your lap you better do dilligence. Car owner has the right to be upset.
City tow yard stole my headlight. German car dealer cost to replace $2200 yes $2200 for a single light, found one on eBay for $1000. Wasn't worth the hassle to file a claim, let alone prove that they stole it. The thief removed the hardware and placed it back in the holes, thief had to disconnect the electrical ever gingerly.
Sometimes you call the victim and they tell you they can't pick the car up until hours later or the next day but they don't want it towed. Do they think we're going to babysit their car? We don't do that. If we decide to tow it, they complain that it shouldn't have been towed. If we leave it per their request and it's stolen again, they complain we should have watched their car. Either way, it's always the fault of the police and it's getting exhausting.
Easy solution with recovery report, notify oemc order tow tada done, time for coffee and another Netflix movie!
Why don’t we have secure parking lots with gates, for our personal cars and recovered vehicles?
FlOP should demand some a dat tif cheddar to get secure lots at every district. Fence it all the way and have a mouse at the gate
Build 30 foot fences around the parking lot and secure the facilities.
A locked gate would be nice.
Not many officers on this job are driving a stolen car into the police station unless a head is attached to it. It looks like this officer(s) went out of their way and brought the vehicle to station for safekeeping, knowing that it would more than likely be gone again before owner could retrieve it. What type of marshmellow supervisor initiated a log for this b/s. A 1999 camry, could make a nice flower planter out of it in someone's ghetto vacant lot garden. Now go get me some event numbers.
SCAM, SCAM, SCAM. If they contacted the owner and the owner didn't respond. He intended to be evasive. Someone told them how it works. Your car will just be taken to the station. Where maybe the owner had someone lift it again. I just find it hard to believe that the victim saw his vehicle twice in traffic and didn't follow the vehicle and wait for police. Or follow the vehicle long enough to give dispatch a direction of travel of the vehicle. He just snapped a picture? Not buying any of it. 1999 Toyota Camry. Let me guess, he wants a 2018,plus $5 million for pain and suffering.
This guy should sue the police department. The department took his property into custody and therefore it has a duty to protect it. This is not the responsibility of the individual police officer, but the department.
Calling a victim to come down to ghetto town to recover his/her car is stupid. Why would any reasonable department send citizens into a high crime rate area to pickup their car?
The city needs to act like a responsible city and have stolen cars towed to a secure storage lot.
If CPD took custody of the car and moved it, they are responsible for it. Don’t blame this on anyone else. If you take it and can’t secure it properly, you’re doing something wrong, so fix it.
Once a car has been boosted, it's susceptible to being stolen again and again. It isn't difficult. The only explanation you're likely to get is, "It was recovered and we don't have the manpower to babysit every recovered car, nor the tow trucks to take it to a secure yard, and even if we did, it would be burgled by the yard employees. Good thing you have insurance!"
Thought Lincoln Towing was out of business?
Repsond to it, recover it, order a tow done! Some of these vehicles have things on the front seats like needles and such be careful, write the tow be done with it,take youir time coming back up who cares anymore?
When the recovered cars were being stolen right out of Police lots, some people would switch, or even remove, some ignition wires in the distributor cap. It would delay the thief and they wouldn’t get anywhere fast.;)
In the old days when we found a stolen car would leave the headlights on. Kill the battery, kill the car.
It was the Captain in 022’s incompetent daughter or Niece. How do you do an arrest that involves a vehicle and not run the Vin? Multiple times in the summer she stayed in the car fanning herself as her partner of the day backed people up. CM WOW!!!
Suggested many times before, each district should have on hand a Denver boot (or two) to immobilize the vehicle until it is released or taken to the impound yard.
It's the wood happens all the time not the first time
The city needs to do what the suburbs do; hire under contract private towing companies. Call for a tow, let the private truck take the car to their impound yard and charge the insurance company. Now that opens up the can of worms for a little corruption, but just put in some safeguards. I just don't think it is good public relations to leave the car on a public street unattended and unsecured. That is how it was prior to Richard M and it was a mess.
Recovered stolen autos were re-stolen all the time from 005th District back in the ninties. Parked at west end of the lot. Seemes it was at keast 2 or 3 a month. Vent window broken already peeled coloumns. Gone in 15 secounds.
First time I recovered a stolen car back in 1999 I sat on the car waiting for the owner to show up. I got yellled at by the Sgt. Never sat on a car again.
These people have a obligation to the community and are constantly reminded, urged to notify el’Coprah anytime for any reason.
Slow the roll and order the tow. That’s where your responblity ends.
There was a time when getting a car back to its owner was greatly appreciated because it saved them time, money and aggravation.
We all know a Cook County PSMV is a CTTV anyway even when used in the commission of any other felony, forcible or otherwise.
Taking possession of personal property that is not processed as evidence?
If the vehicle is open, disconnect the battery or take it out and inventory it, notify the owner.
Driving that vehicle puts all the onus on you.
Drive it directly to the pound if you’re going to go all out and get behind the wheel.
Better yet...
write that Rec Stolen Veh Supp, one or a dozen, on the same car, doesn’t matter.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
The victim can beef all he wants, the beef ain't going anywhere. This has been happening since I got on almost 40 years ago.
The vehicle theft case report has/had? a box about " the Department will make no effort to secure vehicle ". Victim signs it.
End of it.
Unless your supervisor is going to hold you down guarding the car, nothing.
What's a vent window old timer?
All new stations have a impound garage...use it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
All new stations have a impound garage...use it.
10/24/2018 08:00:00 PM
And if a car is in there?
20 year old hoopty, fuck him and his shitbox ride/
Anonymous said...
If CPD took custody of the car and moved it, they are responsible for it. Don’t blame this on anyone else. If you take it and can’t secure it properly, you’re doing something wrong, so fix it.
10/24/2018 08:50:00 AM
I completely agree! Man, I can never seem to find stolen cars anymore. You handjobs will always blame the police for anything that doesn’t go perfect. Let me guess your response, “if you don’t wanna do your job, quit...” Yeah, because it’s normal to get shit on for every single thing that happens at your job, then keep doing it. Don’t worry, friend, I’ll keep my job by NOT DOING MY JOB, because that is the only way one can keep this job nowadays. Enjoy your police service, snowflake.
It's doubtful they were even "looking" for it at all. Probably responded to a citizen call of an abandoned auto, and "they got stuck with it". So yeah, it makes sense not to secure it, that way if it gets stolen again, they can go back to whatever non-police work they were trying to do in the first place, right?
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