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Repossessing cars isn't societally harmful, quite the opposite in fact.

If it was not possible or even just much harder to repossess a car, lenders would be much less willing to grant loans to people in order to buy a car.

Finding missing people? Finding criminals?

People not returning vehicles to the banks, or commiting fraud by taking up resources in districts they don't live in are technically criminals.

There are, in fact, many crimes

“Find me the missing person, and I’ll find the crime.”

— Lavrentiy Beria (Probably)

Discouraging people from using cars at all?

Private Investigators; vindictive ex-lovers; spiteful law enforcement; personal vendettae; abortion tracking...

...some combination of all of the above?!

Catching the pedophiles. Think of the children.

More like catching the children. Think of the pedophiles.

As long as theyrw not in the Epstein Class.