| ▲ | ghaff 7 hours ago |
| I do use airtags for this purpose. I also expect (and I read) that most police departments won't pay the slightest bit of attention to your reports. |
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| ▲ | piperswe 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I also know from experience that Zurich police will chase an AirTag location with vigor. |
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| ▲ | traceroute66 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > most police departments won't pay the slightest bit of attention to your reports Its sort of a combination of two reasons. First in many cities, police departments are underfunded. And so running around looking for your stolen phone or whatever minor item is low on their to-do list compared to say, stopping the local drug-gangs from shooting their brains out. Second, for minor thefts most insurance companies just need a quick box-tick "police crime report number" before paying out. So if the police know they can get you off their backs just by quickly giving you a report number, well.... |
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| ▲ | Schmerika 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > compared to say, stopping the local drug-gangs from shoting their brains out I'm guessing people have that impression from TV, but it doesn't seem to match reality. > the data suggests that officers spend relatively little time responding to major violent crimes: 4%, 3.7% and 4.1% in the three locations, respectively. - https://www.freethink.com/society/how-police-spend-their-tim... | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Which raises the obvious question: If they're not responding to either violent crimes or nonviolent crimes, what are they doing all day? | | |
| ▲ | jq-r 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Just like that excellent Yes Minister episode about hospitals - I imagine they have more then enough internal busywork so they have no time for their customers. Which the older am I the more this seems true. | |
| ▲ | reaperducer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | If they're not responding to either violent crimes or nonviolent crimes, what are they doing all day? According to a police administrator I once knew, filling out all the endless paperwork that makes the studies possible so people can complain about what little time cops spend fighting crime. |
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| ▲ | ghaff 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And it's probably under your deductible anyway. And replacing various cards is your deal with your credit card etc. companies. Relatively few of us carry around a lot of cash. |
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| ▲ | seanmcdirmid 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Switzerland sends in swat for noise complaints, they would definitely care about a thief that could be caught. |
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| ▲ | kshacker 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Is it all over or just some parts of the countries? I ask, amused, since I have never been there except a 2 day trip to Geneva in 1992 or so. | | |
| ▲ | jules-jules 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some Kantons are more easy going than others but overall the police are not to fuck around with. |
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