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Comment by akamaka | Hacker News Reader

There’s no need to invent some pro-crime society narrative, it just took time to investigate:

https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/project-mamba-york-police...

Some DA's are absolutely pro crime and you find out its the same small number of ppl stealing cars and getting released after charges are dropped or reduced after they've gotten caught.

That's some answers. It's surprising that the NYtimes article didn't at least say they ultimately arrested 11 people and recovered almost 100 vehicles. Though it's also surprising they don't give an idea of the scale, either (over 11,000 carjackings a year, not mentioned in either article).

It's good they finally, in one city (Montreal has a similar problem), caught a theft ring. But this success just highlights the lack of action against crime that has scaled up to a business.

Bicycle theft at scale - easy to find on Craigslist in any college town, corrupt ramp employees at airports steal from checked bags, etc. This stuff is obvious. Yet it goes on and on.

Are police resources unbalanced and if a patrol cop can't bluster his way to an arrest it just doesn't happen? Are cops themselves too corrupt and afraid that overtime and detail fraud would start being investigated? What keeps economically significant crime in business?

I had to laugh at the photos of "high end luxury vehicles" - Subarus.

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