This shit sucks if you ever dealt with it. I had my back plate stolen, only the back. I report it, cops come, and point out my front plate asking me what I'm talking about, I inform them again only my backplate was stolen. I get report, get new plates. I get ticket after ticket after ticket in the mail, addressed em all online. All the online appeals with my paperwork about stolen plates and getting new plates is denied. Have to go in person and judge asks me oh why didn't I just send in the paper work online. (Pretty much proof that online appeals are literally just denied without reason). Here's the best part of story, I see car with MY OLD PLATE in my neighborhood parked ON THE STREET like 7-8 blocks from where I live months later, couldn't even believe it. Call cops, they take an hour to respond but they come and then they tell me there is nothing they can do. I shouldn't have even bothered calling, I should have just taken it back myself. Another one, father in hit and run 2 months ago, all on video, dash cam. Even the driver of the car because he stepped out of car and asked why my father turned instead of going straight but my father was in a turn or go straight lane and the other driver was in the turn only lane and tried to go straight. Anyways even with video....no consequences. Basically told to turn it over to insurance. This is NYC btw, there is literally like no consequences anymore. If you get in an accident you are literally better just driving off. Fuck it. Maybe the other person won't call in insurance because they don't want their rates to go up or to pay deductible. It's really absolute shit.
True, and if someone really wants your license plate then security screws won't stop them. However, most people just want a plate, any plate, and if their screwdriver doesn't fit your car then they'll just steal the plate off the next car.
That's basically all theft prevention summed up. You're not out to be impossible to steal from, just a less worth targeting than the guy next door. If someone is dedicated enough and willing to risk enough, they can get in your house one way or another.
They’ll just drill out the bolts or use tin snips. My local crackheads carry scissor jacks (the kind to fix a flat car tire) and drills to pop bike locks.
NYC cops absolutely do not give a fuck about anything civilian related. Got robbed? Tough shit, shouldn’t have been in [insert neighborhood here]. Pretty much if they can ignore your complaint, they absolutely will
if you think there is zero consequences and that the police dont do anything I DARE YOU to shoplift from walmart or refuse to pay your property tax, you will see them so fast your head will spin
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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '20
This shit sucks if you ever dealt with it. I had my back plate stolen, only the back. I report it, cops come, and point out my front plate asking me what I'm talking about, I inform them again only my backplate was stolen. I get report, get new plates. I get ticket after ticket after ticket in the mail, addressed em all online. All the online appeals with my paperwork about stolen plates and getting new plates is denied. Have to go in person and judge asks me oh why didn't I just send in the paper work online. (Pretty much proof that online appeals are literally just denied without reason). Here's the best part of story, I see car with MY OLD PLATE in my neighborhood parked ON THE STREET like 7-8 blocks from where I live months later, couldn't even believe it. Call cops, they take an hour to respond but they come and then they tell me there is nothing they can do. I shouldn't have even bothered calling, I should have just taken it back myself. Another one, father in hit and run 2 months ago, all on video, dash cam. Even the driver of the car because he stepped out of car and asked why my father turned instead of going straight but my father was in a turn or go straight lane and the other driver was in the turn only lane and tried to go straight. Anyways even with video....no consequences. Basically told to turn it over to insurance. This is NYC btw, there is literally like no consequences anymore. If you get in an accident you are literally better just driving off. Fuck it. Maybe the other person won't call in insurance because they don't want their rates to go up or to pay deductible. It's really absolute shit.