My car got broken into in Oakland, California. Multiple pieces of luggage stolen (yes, my fault for leaving it in the car in the first place). Luckily I had an AirTag that showed the exact location of the stolen items. I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything. Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in. Regardless, I was put on a waiting list, they finally called me back 3 days later. I promptly left the state a few months later.

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ahmeneeroe-v2 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It's not your fault for leaving your property in your car. Wild to say that.

	▲	renewiltord 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I imagine they see it the way I do: the SF Bay Area has thieves like this because it's part of local native culture. You get the good with the bad. Sort of like going to the elephant graveyard and being eaten by hyena pack. Sure, it's not your fault for walking around graveyard and getting eaten by hyena. But this is where hyena is. I have lost (and sometimes recovered) many items to these hyena. Ultimately, they are not people or anything. They're like hyena. You don't say it is fault of hyena. It is animal and local culture is animal lover. Why stress about it? Like many, GP decided that he leave hyena here and go elsewhere where it is people and not animal.

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gruez 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in.

I mean, isn't that good? 4th amendment, warrants from a judge, and all that.

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cbolton 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Presumably they could easily get a warrant with that information, if they cared to ask.

	▲	trillic an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Victim meets with police, signs affidavit, prosecutor goes to judge with affidavit, warrant written specifically for those items only. Should be simple and even digital if we wanted it to be.

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insane_dreamer 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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SllX 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t deal with Oakland Police specifically but Oakland itself is a sanctuary city.

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seanmcdirmid 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Local police are never supposed to deal with immigration issues anyways, it isn't in their jurisdiction and they would have to call feds in to deal with anything related to it.

Generally, a city is called a sanctuary city if they don't honor hold orders on detainees from customs and immigration, it has nothing to do with police not enforcing immigration rules, which they can't do either way.

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insane_dreamer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right. Plus local police don't have jurisdiction over immigration issues. My comment was more a reflection on how the gov generally is, sadly (and horrifically in Minneapolis etc), much more responsive to undocumented cases than actual crimes.

	▲	SllX 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but different agency under a different government (Feds, not City of Oakland). Oakland PD has their own bad reputation to live down to, let’s not commingle them.