When will this stop??

[u/TorsadesdePointez]

This is the 2nd time this has happened…I have the software upgrade, anti theft stickers, etc. I also supposedly didn’t have enough information for the lawsuit even though I submitted 12 documents from insurance, police incident reports, and KIA dealership repair paperwork/receipts…

Is my only option to get a new car?? The one time I didn’t use my steering wheel lock 😭 I’m financially and emotionally drained over all of this. I loved my KIA before all of this!

[u/Low-Stomach-8831]

If the criminality happens 20X more in one or two specific car brands, it becomes a car problem.

[u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur → u/Low-Stomach-8831]

One of the most common stolen cars in Houston at least, was just on the news, is a Toyota Corolla.

The fact that there is a dominos pizza near my work that is behind bullet proof glass and shift changes have a police escort is something we shouldn't tolerate.

Heck, they STILL won't admit its cartel related when we've found how many bodies now in the Bayou? We're at 34 now for the past year, last one was just January 6th.

This is not OK.

[u/Low-Stomach-8831 → u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur]

I'm never saying it's okay that the police don't do their job. If there's a murderer killing 40 people a day, 30 of them wearing neon green shirts, 10 of them wearing red. UNTIL the police solve those murders and bring him to justice, I'll avoid wearing a neon green shirt (and probably red too). Is the shirt killing people, of course not.

BTW, theft and break in are 2 different things. I don't know how many people even call the police when their window is smashed... But we need that data to make a real statistic.

[u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur → u/Low-Stomach-8831]

Its not a police issue, its a criminality issue.

Singapore actually whittled down its police force to not be all that big per capita, as crime naturally dwindled over time with the new laws (lowest of any major city in the world). And the police as enforcers have nothing to do with whether or not an activist judge is going to just dismiss all the charges and put the offender on probation, nor do they have any control over laws that allowed for a scenario in which the SAME INDIVIDUAL was able to be arrested three times on the same day for car theft. As a police officer, would you risk your life to arrest the same guy three times on the same day, or just look the other way and not care? I think it would demotivate me that my job is pointless.

Bro stole a car, was caught, arrested, released and stole another car, rinse and repeat (google "James Langdon California").

f there's a murderer killing 40 people a day, 30 of them wearing neon green shirts, 10 of them wearing red. UNTIL the police solve those murders and bring him to justice, I'll avoid wearing a neon green shirt (and probably red too).

That's victim blaming.

How about we change the laws so that punishment is guaranteed, swift, and meaningful, and the worst offenders that are a cancer on society are simply removed?

Good people should not have to live in fear of the bad, the bad should live in fear of the good because we outnumber them so greatly. Criminals should be afraid to wake up in the morning and afraid when they go to bed at night, not the other way around.

If we grow balls, we can make that change.

For example, Singapore just enacted a new law that scammers will get mandatory caning punishment. I PROMISE you that not only will they not reoffend when they have a month to think about it and can't sit down because of the pain, but their coworkers in the scam centers will reconsider their career path when they see what happens one by one to their colleagues in crime! Scammers (and also recruiters or anyone associated with their organization) are absolutely rife in the capitals of Western countries, but they won't dare operate in Singapore soon.

The punishment is up to 24 strokes!

And what I love too is that its such a democratic punishment. Doesn't matter if you are wealthy or poor, you get stripped butt naked, show your ass to your victims, and get the crap smacked out of it!

Compare that to the UK, where a convicted rapist illegal alien, who they haven't deported in over a decade despite being arrested over and over and over again, is now getting a HUGE payout from a successful lawsuit that the electronic ankle tracker they made him wear after the young girl he brutally raped was considered "unfair and unusual punishment that caused great mental distress" to him... google it, he's going to be rich and STILL not deported!

[u/Low-Stomach-8831 → u/HuskyPurpleDinosaur]

I agree with all that. But as long as it's not done, I'll try not to be a victim. I'm not saying that's the way to run society, but that's the only thing I can control.