Cops to Grab Unlocked Stuff From Cars in East Rock Area
Nov 5, 2015 10:27:44 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Nov 5, 2015 10:27:44 GMT -6
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It seems like two or three times a week you say to yourself the truth is stranger than fiction... Some things you just can't believe.
So the idea here is that if you leave your car unlocked the cops will steal your stuff to keep someone else from stealing your stuff?? Then they take it to the precinct lock your doors ans leave you a note. Might I suggest officer it would save paperwork and storage if you just locked the doors... I think we have a 4th amendment problem here, but that never slowed a government official before either local or federal.
This has to be the classic definition of pretzel logic. Yeah this is a true story check the source. They would have a field day where I live, we don't lock the doors to the house or the car. They would need a moving van to teach us a lesson.
It seems like two or three times a week you say to yourself the truth is stranger than fiction... Some things you just can't believe.
"If your computer is missing from your unlocked car, it may not be an opportunistic thief who snatched it.
That important electronic device could be in the New Haven police property room, retrieved by your local walking beat officer.
Stymied as to what to do to get residents to take seriously repeated police warnings to lock their vehicles and not leave valuables in them, Lt. Herbert Sharp said they are going to try something new in his policing district.
Sharp, manager for the East Rock neighborhood, said confiscating goods that are invitations to thieves is one of the six exceptions in Connecticut law to the requirement for a search warrant.
“It’s called a caretaker,” he said of the initiative he wants to implement this month.
“When it comes to a car, if there is something in plain view that is of value, and the car is unlocked, law enforcement can go into the car and retrieve that item and take it into the property (room) and place it where it is safe,” Sharp told residents at the most recent meeting of the East Rock Management Team.
He said this is the time of year for increased car break-ins and packages stolen from porches. Sharp said they had eight car break-ins in East Rock in a week."
That important electronic device could be in the New Haven police property room, retrieved by your local walking beat officer.
Stymied as to what to do to get residents to take seriously repeated police warnings to lock their vehicles and not leave valuables in them, Lt. Herbert Sharp said they are going to try something new in his policing district.
Sharp, manager for the East Rock neighborhood, said confiscating goods that are invitations to thieves is one of the six exceptions in Connecticut law to the requirement for a search warrant.
“It’s called a caretaker,” he said of the initiative he wants to implement this month.
“When it comes to a car, if there is something in plain view that is of value, and the car is unlocked, law enforcement can go into the car and retrieve that item and take it into the property (room) and place it where it is safe,” Sharp told residents at the most recent meeting of the East Rock Management Team.
He said this is the time of year for increased car break-ins and packages stolen from porches. Sharp said they had eight car break-ins in East Rock in a week."
So the idea here is that if you leave your car unlocked the cops will steal your stuff to keep someone else from stealing your stuff?? Then they take it to the precinct lock your doors ans leave you a note. Might I suggest officer it would save paperwork and storage if you just locked the doors... I think we have a 4th amendment problem here, but that never slowed a government official before either local or federal.
This has to be the classic definition of pretzel logic. Yeah this is a true story check the source. They would have a field day where I live, we don't lock the doors to the house or the car. They would need a moving van to teach us a lesson.
