Exactly! Oh let’s swab the orange juice container! For real?!? Sometimes old school approaches such as sitting and waiting for the criminals to return are still the way to go. The Bay Area is going down the frickin drain!
I remember the days, and this was just a few years ago, we were walking down a busy street, and right on the corner was an illegally parked beautiful Bate car with the doors wide open, hmmm 🤔 was this a cop set up or what? Saw this a few times actually! Very tempting to a Thief or is this called entrapment?!?
You can’t even garage your cars in SF to protect them, anymore. These creeps are breaking into garages now. It truly boils down to of a lack of consequences for committing crimes.
Also great job to the woman for finding her stolen plates. She’s got to feel at least somewhat vindicated and awesome for doing this on her own. I’m sure she got the lecture of how dangerous this could have been, blah blah but good on her for taking care of this!!
Back in the 90s my car was stolen in the bronx, told nypd and they said they would look for it. Went around town with a buddy , found it myself, 10 blocks away and only the radio was stolen
The weirdest part of this video is all of the people attributing this to "sophisticated" criminals and "organized crime." Lol. Someone found the keys to a car in the sand, and then drove it away like a rental car. Then used a screw driver on 8 screws to switch one license plate. Then was so stupid as to get enough parking tickets in the same area to allow the owner of the plate to find it. Seems like a clever opportunist rather than a sophisticated member of an organized crime ring.
@@thebee9907 That is odd, since both were in the future from the incidents. The only thing I can think of is that when the owner of the plates updated her registration, she forgot to put the new month sticker on one of the plates? I found while searching for images of the plates and stickers that you can buy the month stickers on ebay for $23.95.
@@jinxterpinxter lol you must be a council member for Chaz. You only see stories like that from democrat cities. Lol dude gets car stolen because left keys in public... and because of DA. Police dont do crap because majority of cases get dismissed...... it's like beating a dead horse.
@@kornpops1261 What majority of cases get dismissed? You mean the minor nonviolent crimes? People still get prosecuted for car theft, burglary, murder, assault, rape, and many many other serious crimes. Turn Fox News off.
@@jinxterpinxter Police funding got diverted to community programs. The police in San Francisco got their balls tied and now squeal like the little piggies they are. The lady in this story did the work and the worthless SFPD came in later. That isn't right wing lies. That is what is in the story. With crime up, now they want to recruit more people to be cops. Who wants to be a cop now?
It was so sad to be raised in Sacramento, visiting San Francisco often, living thru 1968 & 69 and Haight Ashbury, S.F. was always my favorite place to be. Then I grew up and saw what people had done to California 🙄🙄🙄 So I left and never went back.
I bought my house in gorgeous San Francisco back in 1932 for 3,000 dollars. It is now worth 2.9 million. I think that is a great investment for an old feller :)
Am I the only one wondering why they didn't just sit on the car and watch it for a few days and catch the people behind this when they came back to use the car again? Seems like you could've caught these guys pretty easily with some what I would assume is pretty basic police work.
But see in San Francisco, they are not interested in catching criminals, they don't want to inconvenience them or worst yet, a white liberal calling them "racist" for arresting a poor criminal who is just doing crimes so they can pay there way through law school or something like that lol
I'm sure there are not enough officers to spare. SFPD has lost a lot of officers and I doubt there are enough recruits to replace them all. Politics are truly what affects all the crimes in cities because how you prosecute the crimes matters more than just catching the criminals.
Trey - Exactly! Swabbing a cup for "DNA". 🙄 How about waiting for someone to get into the stolen car and arrest them on the spot! Then give them the ultimatum,...tell us everything you know,.. or you're taking the the blame for everything!
How about this question? Why didn't the parking ticket issuer record the VIN? That should up come up as a mismatch AND detected that the ticketed car was reported stolen. That information would have allowed the SFPD to impound the stolen car immediately instead of waiting weeks for the owners to solve the crime for them.
That's because the parking patrol doesn't give two shits. They're required to notate the vin and compare it to the vin pulled up by a tag search. Thieves, however, will slide a piece of paper - old receipt or other trash - down the windshield to cover the VIN so the police don't bother recording it. In cases where the vin is obscured the offending vehicle should be immediately double-booted until the owner shows up to request having them removed (whereupon they can be arrested for car theft or outstanding parking tickets) or 24 hours pass and the city brings in a tech to open the door so they can get the VIN from a different location on the vehicle.
This happened to me!! Someone stole my front license plate, and I got new ones, and four years later I got a letter from an insurance company wanting to know my information. When I called them and verified the license plate, I informed them that it was stolen years prior and I have new ones from the DMV. The person that hit their insured was driving the same model of my car, but a year or two older than mine. When I contacted the insurance company again, they informed me that the culprit was arrested and the matter was cleared up. What balls these folks have!!
Finally a story on this! KPIX do a story about how for years DPT lies on every parking ticket. So were it says VIN number the parking ticket parking control officers write "not visible", and it's on every ticket. Had just 1 DPT officer done their job correctly and copied the vin this car would have been found months ago. Pease do a story about that! Oh and by the way for lying on the ticket- legally, under the law the ticket is void this means all the tickets should be wiped out.
excellent point MG - and you are absolutely right - the DPT ticket person is supposed to get the VIN upon issuing a ticket -as it is the one thing that truly IDs a vehicle - Also license plates should be not be so easy to remove
With today's technology, there is no reason why the VIN number cannot be photographed, electronically read and compared with the license plate number of record.
Explain to me why this didn’t happen: she reported the stolen license plate, and got new tags, the police put the stolen license plate number into their system to look for that tag, then the police caught the person using the stolen license plate. Explain to me why the hell the system didn’t work that way, because that’s common sense.
Really it's ingenious. By stealing plates from cars that are the same color, make and model, most cops checking their plates think it's legit when they call it in and are told the plate matches the vehicle description. They don't check further. They should just stop for the specific stolen plate number (BOLO) and assume this is also likely a stolen vehicle.
@@calihiker7980 - she had to track down the car with her stolen plate. She kept getting the tickets because the cops didn’t write down the VIN on the stolen car, like they’re supposed to, so she went to the street the tickets were being written at. The cops did nothing.
The cops in SF are not to blame. It's every politician people in California, and San fran voted for who are to blame. In California the criminal is the victim.
@Zek Kiel so what? By that logic, might as well just shut down the police departments since almost everyone will eventually be released; Or, everyone would be better off just starving themselves to death since they will eventually poop out the food and eventually die.
Dude, don't leave your keys laying around. They don't need any tools when you make it that easy. All they need to do is walk around pressing the alarm button to find your car to go with the key.
At this point… we need to enforce maximum penalties on crimes. These people know that they will get off. Deterrence should be priority.. because catching the people is obviously not
Yep I use to get away with alot in Democrat city. Now I moved to republican state and learned real fast. 4 arrests within a year. I learned my lesson and am a good boy now. If not for these arrests I would have never learned my lesson. Guess it's a Democrat thing
IS F*n Corrupted government & democracy protects criminals , these people get arrested & back in streets in 24 hours, thats why never stops & doing the same shyt over & over & get worst & Mayor shaking her booty in clubs, Golden state my a**..is more Golden shower on it
SFPD doesn’t care about blatant crime that occurs right in front of them… Like they are going to catch a car thief with a DNA swab, Please don’t pretend.
Why couldn’t they just wait for someone to hop on the car ? They obviously live near by and use the car daily … SFPD and Chesa don’t want to catch them lol
Too bad the cops aren't up to doing this sort of detective work. You'd think the cops might have wanted to stake out the car with the stolen plate to see who might show up to try to drive it. Of course, the catch-and-release public defender masquerading as a DA will just plead any charges down to jaywalking, and recommend a light wrist-slap as a sentence.
you dummies.... If you already let it go this far, you might as well set up undercovers next to the car and see if they come back for it and what they are going to do with the car.
Cameras would find them, but residents are too uncomfortable with them. They could put a tracker, but if the thieves simply come back for the tools and don't move the car it's also wasted effort.
I guess this makes license plate readers useless. And another lesson to the thieves, go to the beaches to basically look for surfer's cars because they gotta hide their keys somewhere. Meanwhile, the politicians are trying to lower the $950 misdemeanor theft threshold. Unfortunately criminals may not be smart but they sure are more nimble and agile than the wheel of justice. Sad.
VIN numbers are usually printed on parking tickets. Think about all the wasted tax dollars on license plate readers. A simple step as cross referencing the VIN number could have saved Robbie Tolan's baseball career. For those not familiar with the Robbie Tolan story, his baseball career was over as a cop shot him when the cop and the dispatcher miscommunicated the liscense plate by one letter.
It seems, of late, the wheels of justice protects the criminals and rolls over the victims. If she hadn't taken the initiative and found her plate on a stolen car, I bet they'd still hold her financially responsible for the tickets the thieves racked up. Great job lady.
@@chemokineimmu7068 yes. But there is the bottleneck in this process. Think about the time it takes for the cops to get that information before the criminals take the car with stolen plates to commit other crimes.
Requiring 2 license plates per car is the reason this is happening in California. It allows two vehicles to be driven around with the same plate. In Florida we only have 1 plate. If it’s stolen, just report it stolen and makes it easier to recover the stolen car with the stolen plate.
When the criminals are smarter than the cops.. I just realized the cops don't even need to stay by the car to track it. just do what all the criminals do, drop an Apple air tag in the car and voila, you have the exact location of the car. I'm going to assume the fourth amendment about unreasonable search and seizures does not apply to a STOLEN car, therefore the cops can throw a tracker on the car without a warrant. Also with the AirTag location can prove this car was at the location of the crime, and all of this could be down without having the leave the comfort of your desk..
Your phone tells you every time you come within a certain feet of a airtag, so you can not be tracked without being notified. At least not from a apple airtag or a Tile airtag.
Yep, they could have caught the driver red handed. Probably by cheaper methods than forensics. They have their own sophisticated trackers 🤷♂️ and heir just lazy and have others crimes to solve which they drop the ball on too. Too many people don’t want to do the work anymore, just collect a pay check.
And when that stolen car’s driver leaves that car and shoots people - but cops aren’t chasing, only tracking him - then what, Andy? What you’ve done is show your ignorance of consequential knowledge. You have no fucking idea what another profession is dealing with but you proceed with unbridled and solipsistic arrogance.
Cops are smart enough, but what's the point. You track down someone who is using the stolen car but that's not the same as a conviction, said person will be out free within an hour of arrest.
OVERPAID CITY EMPLOYESSS CANNOT DO THEIR JOB, I HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO HAS NOT RETURN TO IN PERSON WORK, ZOOMING AWAY AND GETTING FULL SALARY, WHAT A JOKE.
Too much expensive personnel resources, CCTV would be best because it gathers evidence if not live alerts. Plus the DNA file is permanent, and can be cross-referenced for future incidents. A pattern criminal is going to be caught and sentenced.
IS F*n Corrupted government & democracy protects criminals , these people get arrested & back in streets in 24 hours, thats why never stops & doing the same shyt over & over & get worst & Mayor shaking her booty in clubs, Golden state my a**..is more Golden shower on it
Play that back, He's always careful about hiding his keys in the sand, but on that day, somebody found them. 🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅- you can't make this stuff up. ............GRIM
there was a 2015 honda accord in the bay area that lived/worked near me and they had a license plate from the early 2000s and drove around with it for years. police never did a damn thing about it.
lol you wouldn’t know if cops did anything about it unless you saw a cop directly behind them running their plate. they could be avoiding cops everywhere they go. i used to have an unregistered project car without plates that i would drive around my neighborhood always watching for cops behind me, and turning off quick once I saw one.
@@e92e36 Cops don't do shit. In Texas, law enforcement estimates there's about 2 million illegal paper tags being used on the road. A lot of them are straight up fakes, and then there's plenty that are fraudulent tags "registered" by fake dealers for a $50-100 charge. Selling fraudulent tags is such a lucrative crime here, especially because Texas law enforcement is too incompetent to deal with the problem. Criminals are even going as far as using illegal Texas tags in places like New York and Philadelphia.
What's the point of catching the thieves anyway. They'll be me out with a cushioned slap on the wrist. The criminals know it, the police know it and the justice system knows it...
They should do an investigative story on what the hell the SF DA is doing on a daily basis. Follow him around but i'm sure he will not do interviews with any news outlets cause he's slacking all day long on his job. What's the outcome of that recall?
Thank you Karen. I mean Katie for doing the cop's job. You are a hero. You helped return stolen car and slowed down more thefts. No Consequences. No cops. Wild West!
Curious why you purposefully called her Karen and proceeded to correct yourself as if you’re talking and not writing. You could’ve easily backspaced with your keyboard. This woman is a ‘Karen’ because she’s fed up with police inactivity and did her own research? 🤔 perhaps a slight misuse of the name
@@kylorenthehusky2584 Yes. I have friends named Karen and I thought that name needs to be associated with good deeds. Anyone's name could've easily been chosen for social media to pick on even Katie or Kyle.
Happened to my son. He was at work at a grocery store working the overnight shift and had used my Focus to got o work. And someone with a silver Focus like mine, stole his rear license plate. This was before they passed a law requiring only a rear plate. So I still had a front plate. Apparently later that night they evaded a police chase and the next day I get a phone call asking me where I was the night before. It wasnt until the cops showed up at my house and we were walking around the car that I noticed the registration sticker was expired. And being I had just got it registered, I knew it wasnt right. I pulled out my registration from the glove box and showed it to the cop. He took the plate with him and to make a long story short they figured it after a couple days and the officer leading the investigation even emailed me to let me know they knew we were innocent and I was cleared. The cop told me this was a new fad and happening a LOT. When they tracked down the owner of the plate it turned it too had been stolen from his car and he didnt even know it.
Gotta take your keys with you regardless of where you park, but they don't do so well after a day drowned in salt water. Beaches don't provide security guards to watch car keys either.
Cops should not even be able to write a ticket without getting the VIN off of the vehicle receiving the ticket. If they can't read the VIN (because the driver has obscured it) they should immediately double-boot the vehicle and hold it there until the owner calls the city to have it removed - and the officers can get the VIN, and likely arrest the operator on the spot for car theft. If no one shows up in 24 hours they bring in someone to get into the car (a roadside assistance tech can do it in less than 2 minutes) so they can get the VIN and get the car returned to its owner after being swabbed for DNA and fingerprints.
@@amzarnacht6710 Yeah and I might accidentally obscure my VIN but booting the car is a very serious escalation that should not be left to an underpaid parking enforcer's judgment to decide that my VIN was obscured since they often can't discern if I've parked legally either.
I really want to see the follow up story after the DNA comes back. Lets say the DNA IDs a suspect, will they make an arrest? If they do arrest, how quickly will the suspect be released and any charges dropped? And also, how large will the reparations check be for the criminal due to the inconvenience of being arrested? Hopefully the DA will hold a press conference to answer those questions.
Yea poor criminal has to borrow another Audi. Probably they will check DNA for aids and cooflu not for identification purposes. The guy spent 5 minutes in jail was in process taking off his right shoe while already putting on left. Two officers were reportedly tying his shoes while the social workers were apologizing the gentleman criminal for the inconvenience and white rage of officers
SFPD and DNA is a bad! Remember back in the early 2000s, Kamala and Newsom ran the city. The SFPD crime lab falsified DNA evidence and Kamala's office prosecuted close to 10,000 cases, even after knowing SFPD lied.
@@juicyfruit6311 well Kamala lied so they can have that "free labor" for the state from the prisoners..She even laughs about that...Sickening what these ppl are capable and shows they have absolutely no concsience and will ruin ppl's lives and not even lose an ounce of sleep over it...Evil
It's time to take care of this crime wave ourselves. First, arm yourself and learn how to safely shoot criminals without shooting innocent people. Practice with your weapon. Remember, do not show your gun unless you are willing to use it. Do not let the criminal take and use your weapon against you or anybody else. Pat attention to your surroundings at all times. If you are not sure about your abilities with a gun, get some training before you carry. Good luck and good aim!
Talk about lazy cops, you have to solve your own crime now. And why didn’t they put the car under surveillance? Seems to me if you’d wait for them to come back you’d catch them.
Accountability in the city? There is now accountability in California at all... I hope this spreads further into the nice suburbs so those leftarded will start to experiencing what they have actually voted for.
Well lets see dum dum. These criminals get arrested, get a slap on the wrist by the woke politicians you vote in office all in the name of “equity” and are right back on the streets in an hour. Get a clue
@@jonnyfendi2003 sorry dum dum. Ive never voted democrat my entire life nor have I ever voted my support for any of the current SF politicians. Why do you assume that anyone who doesn’t support the cops is a liberal? Some of us just don’t blindly cling to an ideology.
@No ducks It's a failure all around. Bad police, bad DA, bad mayor. The police do the bare minimum. The DA let's everyone out. The mayor is in it for the money. It's just a cash grab for the biggest paycheck. No one takes pride in the community because everyone sees it as a job not a social responsibility. People who blame "democrats" or "republicans" have been brainwashed into thinking it's black or white issue. News flash Red states are run just as badly as blue states.
The dude was lucky AF, so is the lady too. I park in SF and have my window broken into twice. I gave up and just taped over the broken window now, seems like a very good deterrent so far.
Buy torque head screws with its own adapter. Depending on the car you could also drill a small hole through the plate and attach a cable to a support member.
In Denmark we also have that problem. many people in recent years have started gluing their plates to the car with car window glue, (Polyurethane) so if anyone wants to remove them, they will be destroyed.
Michigan hasn't had a front plate law for a very long time. The last time I remember having one was in 1982. Good detective work by Katie for not only getting her plate back but also leading to the guy getting his car back as well.
If the stolen plate and car racked up "multiple parking tickets" why didn't any the of the cops writing any of the tickets notice that the plate did not have a registration sticker on the plate?
So why didn't they have an unmarked cop wait for the person to come back to the car? Oh wait....they don't hold criminals accountable. That's right.
And defunded cities don't have enough LEOs to sit around for hours waiting for a car thief to show up. We reap what we sow.
Exactly! Oh let’s swab the orange juice container! For real?!? Sometimes old school approaches such as sitting and waiting for the criminals to return are still the way to go. The Bay Area is going down the frickin drain!
I remember the days, and this was just a few years ago, we were walking down a busy street, and right on the corner was an illegally parked beautiful Bate car with the doors wide open, hmmm 🤔 was this a cop set up or what? Saw this a few times actually! Very tempting to a Thief or is this called entrapment?!?
Only if they suspect the criminals use the wrong pronouns.
Came here to say the same thing. Camp out and wait. Instead, someone else’s car and plates are about to be stolen.
You can’t even garage your cars in SF to protect them, anymore. These creeps are breaking into garages now. It truly boils down to of a lack of consequences for committing crimes.
I don't feel sorry for people who live in California. Relocate!
That shit is rare here in VT. You're liable to get shot if you break into someone's place while they're home.
@@presidenttnediserp428 says everyone who isnt in California. You can take them slow ass hill billy states
It’s Soft on crime California
@@presidenttnediserp428 ok President nediserp. We appreciate your pity
That lady should be hired to train cops and detectives.
Never mind, I just remember that detectives no longer investigate these types of cases.
: O civilians doing the real work now
They never did. It’s not a case of major importance, so they’re not gonna wasted resource on it
You tell ‘em daddy :)
@@EddieSpaghetti07 JAJAJJAJJAJA, YOU ARE COOL EDDIE
Because the DA Chesa Boudin no longer charge the criminals in these types of crimes.
Also great job to the woman for finding her stolen plates. She’s got to feel at least somewhat vindicated and awesome for doing this on her own. I’m sure she got the lecture of how dangerous this could have been, blah blah but good on her for taking care of this!!
Back in the 90s my car was stolen in the bronx, told nypd and they said they would look for it. Went around town with a buddy , found it myself, 10 blocks away and only the radio was stolen
Exactly. From the sound of it, the case would be handled better if the police let her do the DNA analysis on the orange drink.
maybe they should hire her lol
The weirdest part of this video is all of the people attributing this to "sophisticated" criminals and "organized crime." Lol.
Someone found the keys to a car in the sand, and then drove it away like a rental car. Then used a screw driver on 8 screws to switch one license plate.
Then was so stupid as to get enough parking tickets in the same area to allow the owner of the plate to find it. Seems like a clever opportunist rather than a sophisticated member of an organized crime ring.
@@thebee9907 That is odd, since both were in the future from the incidents. The only thing I can think of is that when the owner of the plates updated her registration, she forgot to put the new month sticker on one of the plates? I found while searching for images of the plates and stickers that you can buy the month stickers on ebay for $23.95.
They should investigate further into people who commit car thefts. Those stolen cars are most definitely used for other crimes.
"They" are the police that they defunded. Let San Francisco fall into dystopia so Gov. Newsome can get some rest.
@@stewiepid4385 The police never got defunded in San Francisco. And the police cannot prevent crime. When will stop spreading the right wing bullshit?
@@jinxterpinxter lol you must be a council member for Chaz. You only see stories like that from democrat cities. Lol dude gets car stolen because left keys in public... and because of DA. Police dont do crap because majority of cases get dismissed...... it's like beating a dead horse.
@@kornpops1261 What majority of cases get dismissed? You mean the minor nonviolent crimes? People still get prosecuted for car theft, burglary, murder, assault, rape, and many many other serious crimes. Turn Fox News off.
@@jinxterpinxter Police funding got diverted to community programs. The police in San Francisco got their balls tied and now squeal like the little piggies they are. The lady in this story did the work and the worthless SFPD came in later. That isn't right wing lies. That is what is in the story. With crime up, now they want to recruit more people to be cops. Who wants to be a cop now?
It was so sad to be raised in Sacramento, visiting San Francisco often, living thru 1968 & 69 and Haight Ashbury, S.F. was always my favorite place to be. Then I grew up and saw what people had done to California 🙄🙄🙄 So I left and never went back.
I bought my house in gorgeous San Francisco back in 1932 for 3,000 dollars. It is now worth 2.9 million. I think that is a great investment for an old feller :)
It's more like what had the government done with California.
@@dogsense3773 what is “paided”?
@@walterwhite1 yeah butthats in 1932 money 🤦
So it be like $65,000 in today's money
Still good but you gotta consider the economy at the time as qell
@@walterwhite1 how old are you? If you bought the house in 1932 is 90 years , let’s say you were 20 years old ,it makes you 110
Am I the only one wondering why they didn't just sit on the car and watch it for a few days and catch the people behind this when they came back to use the car again? Seems like you could've caught these guys pretty easily with some what I would assume is pretty basic police work.
But see in San Francisco, they are not interested in catching criminals, they don't want to inconvenience them or worst yet, a white liberal calling them "racist" for arresting a poor criminal who is just doing crimes so they can pay there way through law school or something like that lol
I'm sure there are not enough officers to spare. SFPD has lost a lot of officers and I doubt there are enough recruits to replace them all. Politics are truly what affects all the crimes in cities because how you prosecute the crimes matters more than just catching the criminals.
Trey - Exactly! Swabbing a cup for "DNA". 🙄 How about waiting for someone to get into the stolen car and arrest them on the spot! Then give them the ultimatum,...tell us everything you know,.. or you're taking the the blame for everything!
No mention of fingerprints. I am sure the perps didn't wipe down the car...
No manpower to do something like that. Do you want cops to do a stakeout for a stolen car?
How about this question? Why didn't the parking ticket issuer record the VIN? That should up come up as a mismatch AND detected that the ticketed car was reported stolen. That information would have allowed the SFPD to impound the stolen car immediately instead of waiting weeks for the owners to solve the crime for them.
I guess plate might works well with traffic cam plus change on exist procedure does not sounds feasible.
1 word...california
Your talking crazy talk.
That's because the parking patrol doesn't give two shits. They're required to notate the vin and compare it to the vin pulled up by a tag search.
Thieves, however, will slide a piece of paper - old receipt or other trash - down the windshield to cover the VIN so the police don't bother recording it.
In cases where the vin is obscured the offending vehicle should be immediately double-booted until the owner shows up to request having them removed (whereupon they can be arrested for car theft or outstanding parking tickets) or 24 hours pass and the city brings in a tech to open the door so they can get the VIN from a different location on the vehicle.
@@amzarnacht6710 more crazy talk.
You should all thank your mayor and DA for staying silent and letting them free from punishment.
This happened to me!! Someone stole my front license plate, and I got new ones, and four years later I got a letter from an insurance company wanting to know my information. When I called them and verified the license plate, I informed them that it was stolen years prior and I have new ones from the DMV. The person that hit their insured was driving the same model of my car, but a year or two older than mine. When I contacted the insurance company again, they informed me that the culprit was arrested and the matter was cleared up. What balls these folks have!!
Racial jungle america is really cringe.
Finally a story on this! KPIX do a story about how for years DPT lies on every parking ticket. So were it says VIN number the parking ticket parking control officers write "not visible", and it's on every ticket.
Had just 1 DPT officer done their job correctly and copied the vin this car would have been found months ago.
Pease do a story about that!
Oh and by the way for lying on the ticket- legally, under the law the ticket is void this means all the tickets should be wiped out.
excellent point MG - and you are absolutely right - the DPT ticket person is supposed to get the VIN upon issuing a ticket -as it is the one thing that truly IDs a vehicle - Also license plates should be not be so easy to remove
With today's technology, there is no reason why the VIN number cannot be photographed, electronically read and compared with the license plate number of record.
Good work .How did you know that ?
@@PrimeObserver-1 exactly!
Nice call.
Explain to me why this didn’t happen: she reported the stolen license plate, and got new tags, the police put the stolen license plate number into their system to look for that tag, then the police caught the person using the stolen license plate.
Explain to me why the hell the system didn’t work that way, because that’s common sense.
It does, but she has to report the plate missing
Really it's ingenious. By stealing plates from cars that are the same color, make and model, most cops checking their plates think it's legit when they call it in and are told the plate matches the vehicle description. They don't check further. They should just stop for the specific stolen plate number (BOLO) and assume this is also likely a stolen vehicle.
@@calihiker7980 - she had to track down the car with her stolen plate. She kept getting the tickets because the cops didn’t write down the VIN on the stolen car, like they’re supposed to, so she went to the street the tickets were being written at. The cops did nothing.
The cops could have set up an arrest when the suspect stepped into the stolen car, but instead botched it
The cops in SF are not to blame. It's every politician people in California, and San fran voted for who are to blame. In California the criminal is the victim.
cops should quit working for leftwing sh-holes like the Bay Area
Yea why be passionate about law and order when they will get released after 5 minutes.
@Zek Kiel so what? By that logic, might as well just shut down the police departments since almost everyone will eventually be released; Or, everyone would be better off just starving themselves to death since they will eventually poop out the food and eventually die.
@@Tammy-og8hl No, the cops are to blame, they ignore these crimes, some are paid off. The whole SFPD is crooked and has been for decades
Dude, don't leave your keys laying around. They don't need any tools when you make it that easy. All they need to do is walk around pressing the alarm button to find your car to go with the key.
Seriously, even while surfing there are ways to safely carry your keys. No need to bury them🙄
He's not only one that does that and they were watching and waiting for someone as careless as him
"Tools" a screwdriver
At this point… we need to enforce maximum penalties on crimes. These people know that they will get off. Deterrence should be priority.. because catching the people is obviously not
Yep I use to get away with alot in Democrat city. Now I moved to republican state and learned real fast. 4 arrests within a year. I learned my lesson and am a good boy now. If not for these arrests I would have never learned my lesson. Guess it's a Democrat thing
It’s racist to lock ppl up… blame ur blue reps
Not yet
IS F*n Corrupted government & democracy protects criminals , these people get arrested & back in streets in 24 hours, thats why never stops & doing the same shyt over & over & get worst & Mayor shaking her booty in clubs, Golden state my a**..is more Golden shower on it
Need to get rid of the current DA who believes jailing criminals is offensive.
SFPD doesn’t care about blatant crime that occurs right in front of them…
Like they are going to catch a car thief with a DNA swab,
Please don’t pretend.
Blaming on the police. What a joke. Blame your useless DA and BLM. Everytime a police man does anything BLm burns down the city.
Why couldn’t they just wait for someone to hop on the car ? They obviously live near by and use the car daily … SFPD and Chesa don’t want to catch them lol
They do. But california is a catch and release state. Cant feed your family like that
We need batman!
@@dave3207 naw, Batman is for Gotham (NYC). You guys can get aquaman or something
That would mean those lazy pigs would have to do some work.
@@rogerj.3640 lmfaoo
Too bad the cops aren't up to doing this sort of detective work. You'd think the cops might have wanted to stake out the car with the stolen plate to see who might show up to try to drive it. Of course, the catch-and-release public defender masquerading as a DA will just plead any charges down to jaywalking, and recommend a light wrist-slap as a sentence.
you dummies.... If you already let it go this far, you might as well set up undercovers next to the car and see if they come back for it and what they are going to do with the car.
They don’t want to catch the criminals at all.
aint nobody got time for that, why dont you come over here and ill pay you to watch my house for me,
What's the point? The criminals will just get a same-day release and a slap on the wrist.
Cameras would find them, but residents are too uncomfortable with them. They could put a tracker, but if the thieves simply come back for the tools and don't move the car it's also wasted effort.
Hopefully they catch those criminals
I guess this makes license plate readers useless. And another lesson to the thieves, go to the beaches to basically look for surfer's cars because they gotta hide their keys somewhere. Meanwhile, the politicians are trying to lower the $950 misdemeanor theft threshold. Unfortunately criminals may not be smart but they sure are more nimble and agile than the wheel of justice. Sad.
Not if the cops pulled over the car and proper investigation is done by matching up Vin numbers they would know its stolen
It will be very useful when the plate is reported stolen
VIN numbers are usually printed on parking tickets. Think about all the wasted tax dollars on license plate readers. A simple step as cross referencing the VIN number could have saved Robbie Tolan's baseball career. For those not familiar with the Robbie Tolan story, his baseball career was over as a cop shot him when the cop and the dispatcher miscommunicated the liscense plate by one letter.
It seems, of late, the wheels of justice protects the criminals and rolls over the victims. If she hadn't taken the initiative and found her plate on a stolen car, I bet they'd still hold her financially responsible for the tickets the thieves racked up. Great job lady.
@@chemokineimmu7068 yes. But there is the bottleneck in this process. Think about the time it takes for the cops to get that information before the criminals take the car with stolen plates to commit other crimes.
Requiring 2 license plates per car is the reason this is happening in California. It allows two vehicles to be driven around with the same plate. In Florida we only have 1 plate. If it’s stolen, just report it stolen and makes it easier to recover the stolen car with the stolen plate.
When the criminals are smarter than the cops.. I just realized the cops don't even need to stay by the car to track it. just do what all the criminals do, drop an Apple air tag in the car and voila, you have the exact location of the car. I'm going to assume the fourth amendment about unreasonable search and seizures does not apply to a STOLEN car, therefore the cops can throw a tracker on the car without a warrant. Also with the AirTag location can prove this car was at the location of the crime, and all of this could be down without having the leave the comfort of your desk..
That's too logical. It makes sense, They'll never do it.
Your phone tells you every time you come within a certain feet of a airtag, so you can not be tracked without being notified. At least not from a apple airtag or a Tile airtag.
Yep, they could have caught the driver red handed. Probably by cheaper methods than forensics. They have their own sophisticated trackers 🤷♂️ and heir just lazy and have others crimes to solve which they drop the ball on too. Too many people don’t want to do the work anymore, just collect a pay check.
And when that stolen car’s driver leaves that car and shoots people - but cops aren’t chasing, only tracking him - then what, Andy?
What you’ve done is show your ignorance of consequential knowledge. You have no fucking idea what another profession is dealing with but you proceed with unbridled and solipsistic arrogance.
Cops are smart enough, but what's the point. You track down someone who is using the stolen car but that's not the same as a conviction, said person will be out free within an hour of arrest.
Lmao my dude put his keys in the sand… sounds like he got tired of paying that monthly car note
SFPD is incompetent. They could have staked out the car. Why do victims need to investigate on their own?
The social workers stopped to socialize and didn't get there in time...
OVERPAID CITY EMPLOYESSS CANNOT DO THEIR JOB, I HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO HAS NOT RETURN TO IN PERSON WORK, ZOOMING AWAY AND GETTING FULL SALARY, WHAT A JOKE.
The police mostly busy with revenue collect for tickets on petty stuff.
Get out of Cali before it's illegal
The DA wouldn’t prosecute if they stalked and arrested them anyway. Would’ve been pointless.
The woman needs to be hired by the city! She is better than any of the cops that worked the stolen car case since NOVEMBER
I know how to permanently solve that problem but no one is willing to listen.
The lack of accountability!!! Said it all
This Will never stop unfortunately
How many cops there and this woman has to solve crimes for them?
Don't worry because the DA will apologize to the criminals for any inconvenience.
They should of watched the car until someone got into it then they could of made a arrest on the spots.
Yep. Recd stolen property
She should have canceled her insurance, that car would have been pulled over immediately if the tag flagged on the police car scanner
This gal better than all cops put together in her town.
Swab for DNA? why waste tax dollars when the person will just be released on bond.
Yeah seems pretty unnecessary at that point. Just have a dude look at the car and see who comes back for it
Too much expensive personnel resources, CCTV would be best because it gathers evidence if not live alerts.
Plus the DNA file is permanent, and can be cross-referenced for future incidents. A pattern criminal is going to be caught and sentenced.
Thanks Chesa Great job!
Is living in SF really worth all this? I can't believe that it is.
@@imd1b4u always wanted to visit, but not anymore. It's not safe for tourists.
@@imd1b4u I have and there is human shit all over your side walks.
Lmao california ran out of uhaul trucks. CANT MAKE THIS CRAP UP wonder why...... hmmmmm
@@imd1b4u I have and not worth it for the price
IS F*n Corrupted government & democracy protects criminals , these people get arrested & back in streets in 24 hours, thats why never stops & doing the same shyt over & over & get worst & Mayor shaking her booty in clubs, Golden state my a**..is more Golden shower on it
Play that back, He's always careful about hiding his keys in the sand, but on that day, somebody found them.
🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅- you can't make this stuff up. ............GRIM
Ya that was odd lol
since the theft, he now hides his keys in the ocean
@@user-ik4br3nk2w
😠 - stop, don't make me laugh, I'm trying to look mean. 😆- 'ba, ha, ha, ha
Katie Lyons!! She was the lady that hired private security to patrol her street last year!
I knew she looked familiar. You'd think she'd have moved by now. 😂
Good sleuth work Ms Katie ! Righteous anger. You are the Heroine of the Month.
Step 1 commit crime.
Step 2 get caught.
Step 3 get a stern talking to about why crimes are bad.
Repeat cycle.
Good for her!!
I can't get the LAPD to help me with a grand theft case, involving an employee! I have tried every department. Very frustrating!!
What was stolen? That is very unfortunate!
there was a 2015 honda accord in the bay area that lived/worked near me and they had a license plate from the early 2000s and drove around with it for years. police never did a damn thing about it.
Shee-it. I've tags from 2015 and even no tags. 880. 101.
lol you wouldn’t know if cops did anything about it unless you saw a cop directly behind them running their plate. they could be avoiding cops everywhere they go. i used to have an unregistered project car without plates that i would drive around my neighborhood always watching for cops behind me, and turning off quick once I saw one.
@@e92e36 Cops don't do shit. In Texas, law enforcement estimates there's about 2 million illegal paper tags being used on the road. A lot of them are straight up fakes, and then there's plenty that are fraudulent tags "registered" by fake dealers for a $50-100 charge.
Selling fraudulent tags is such a lucrative crime here, especially because Texas law enforcement is too incompetent to deal with the problem. Criminals are even going as far as using illegal Texas tags in places like New York and Philadelphia.
A sophisticated crime, uncovered by an attentive citizen.
Susan W, can I talk to you for a moment?
they need to hire her as a detective...
Writing tickets and not checking the VIN??
What's the point of catching the thieves anyway. They'll be me out with a cushioned slap on the wrist. The criminals know it, the police know it and the justice system knows it...
This is so messed up! Glad she found her plate though
If front plates weren't required, this wouldn't be a temptation for thieves! 😂
If it was a black Audi it would be a hate crime.
They should do an investigative story on what the hell the SF DA is doing on a daily basis. Follow him around but i'm sure he will not do interviews with any news outlets cause he's slacking all day long on his job. What's the outcome of that recall?
what idiot leaves their keys in the sand vs just taking the physical waterproof piece of metal key with them>>
When you glorify movies like Fast and Furious which glorify crime, kids will only emulate it as a new career
Reason why I'm really against most violent movies
So he hid his car keys in the sand at the beach... Basically, he is 100% responsible for having his car stolen.
Thank you Karen. I mean Katie for doing the cop's job. You are a hero. You helped return stolen car and slowed down more thefts. No Consequences. No cops. Wild West!
Curious why you purposefully called her Karen and proceeded to correct yourself as if you’re talking and not writing. You could’ve easily backspaced with your keyboard.
This woman is a ‘Karen’ because she’s fed up with police inactivity and did her own research? 🤔 perhaps a slight misuse of the name
@@kylorenthehusky2584 Yes. I have friends named Karen and I thought that name needs to be associated with good deeds. Anyone's name could've easily been chosen for social media to pick on even Katie or Kyle.
This all starts at the TOP, Newsom, Breed, Boudin, and the Supervisors!
Parking enforcement is typically bottom of the barrel. You can’t expect anything above and beyond.
So why aren't the police investigating these obvious stolen plates? Or do they just not bother with car thieves these days?
Everybody should use security bolts on their plates. Tons of options for like $10 each on Amazon
not worth it, criminas can now use an iphone 13 and use lidar to scan your plate and they can 3D print it at home... i saw it on tik tok.
If you are to the point where you feel your license plate is going to get stolen, you might want to fuckin move.
If it were possible, thieves would probably steal the cable cars.
Remember when “Top Grunge” did that with his chopper in “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?”
The fact that you can improvise steal a car plate and steal another car with exactly the same model on the fly tells a lot how shitty SF is now.
Good for you, Katie. You would make a great detective!
Happened to my son. He was at work at a grocery store working the overnight shift and had used my Focus to got o work. And someone with a silver Focus like mine, stole his rear license plate. This was before they passed a law requiring only a rear plate. So I still had a front plate. Apparently later that night they evaded a police chase and the next day I get a phone call asking me where I was the night before. It wasnt until the cops showed up at my house and we were walking around the car that I noticed the registration sticker was expired. And being I had just got it registered, I knew it wasnt right. I pulled out my registration from the glove box and showed it to the cop. He took the plate with him and to make a long story short they figured it after a couple days and the officer leading the investigation even emailed me to let me know they knew we were innocent and I was cleared. The cop told me this was a new fad and happening a LOT. When they tracked down the owner of the plate it turned it too had been stolen from his car and he didnt even know it.
Not such a new fad. This was happening in the 70's. There was no central computers back then, so it happened a lot, with no record of it.
When you drive a Audi but can't afford parking. That pretty much sums up people living in CA with debt up to their eye balls but still have to floss.
Gotta take your keys with you regardless of where you park, but they don't do so well after a day drowned in salt water. Beaches don't provide security guards to watch car keys either.
Another reason to get custom plates!
Exactly!
Or just secure your plate properly...
I’m assuming CA charges out the butt for it. But I guess if you can afford to live their and drive an Audie
How would custom plates stop them..??
@@CannabisTechLife They will just pry it off and damage the car, and even a little damage to the plate they can still use it.
I work for Audi Concord. If Joe had the app, he could have tracked the car once it was off and used the kill engine feature.
Cops should not even be able to write a ticket without getting the VIN off of the vehicle receiving the ticket. If they can't read the VIN (because the driver has obscured it) they should immediately double-boot the vehicle and hold it there until the owner calls the city to have it removed - and the officers can get the VIN, and likely arrest the operator on the spot for car theft. If no one shows up in 24 hours they bring in someone to get into the car (a roadside assistance tech can do it in less than 2 minutes) so they can get the VIN and get the car returned to its owner after being swabbed for DNA and fingerprints.
No lol be careful what you asking for
Whoa there. You aren't double booting my car over a parking ticket.
@@gorkyd7912 Then park legally - it's the VIN being obscured that gets the boot, not the ticket.
@@amzarnacht6710 Yeah and I might accidentally obscure my VIN but booting the car is a very serious escalation that should not be left to an underpaid parking enforcer's judgment to decide that my VIN was obscured since they often can't discern if I've parked legally either.
She must had an Apple airtag 😂🤣😂🤣
Meanwhile the San Francisco DA is already planning to preemptively give the criminals a pardon for their crimes.
That’s also why you are supposed to report a missing or stolen license plate IMMEDIATELY.
Make sure to vote out Chesa . It’s coming up.
That rotten commie.
His family story is quite sad
Guy buries car keys in sand on a public beach.
Didn’t think anyone would take his keys..
I really want to see the follow up story after the DNA comes back. Lets say the DNA IDs a suspect, will they make an arrest? If they do arrest, how quickly will the suspect be released and any charges dropped? And also, how large will the reparations check be for the criminal due to the inconvenience of being arrested? Hopefully the DA will hold a press conference to answer those questions.
Yea poor criminal has to borrow another Audi. Probably they will check DNA for aids and cooflu not for identification purposes. The guy spent 5 minutes in jail was in process taking off his right shoe while already putting on left. Two officers were reportedly tying his shoes while the social workers were apologizing the gentleman criminal for the inconvenience and white rage of officers
SFPD and DNA is a bad! Remember back in the early 2000s, Kamala and Newsom ran the city. The SFPD crime lab falsified DNA evidence and Kamala's office prosecuted close to 10,000 cases, even after knowing SFPD lied.
@@juicyfruit6311 well Kamala lied so they can have that "free labor" for the state from the prisoners..She even laughs about that...Sickening what these ppl are capable and shows they have absolutely no concsience and will ruin ppl's lives and not even lose an ounce of sleep over it...Evil
It's time to take care of this crime wave ourselves. First, arm yourself and learn how to safely shoot criminals without shooting innocent people. Practice with your weapon. Remember, do not show your gun unless you are willing to use it. Do not let the criminal take and use your weapon against you or anybody else. Pat attention to your surroundings at all times. If you are not sure about your abilities with a gun, get some training before you carry. Good luck and good aim!
Talk about lazy cops, you have to solve your own crime now. And why didn’t they put the car under surveillance? Seems to me if you’d wait for them to come back you’d catch them.
Much respect to this woman, but it's honestly sad that residents have to do the police's job for them.
Accountability in the city? There is now accountability in California at all...
I hope this spreads further into the nice suburbs so those leftarded will start to experiencing what they have actually voted for.
Betty Yu is the best reporter
SFPD the most overpaid PD in the country. Cops making over 100k a year but it’s up to individual citizens to solve our own cases.
Well lets see dum dum. These criminals get arrested, get a slap on the wrist by the woke politicians you vote in office all in the name of “equity” and are right back on the streets in an hour. Get a clue
You obviously have never been to Chicago lol.
Arrests don’t matter. It’s wether the criminal gets time. And they don’t. Keep voting blue…..keep watching crime go up.
@@jonnyfendi2003 sorry dum dum. Ive never voted democrat my entire life nor have I ever voted my support for any of the current SF politicians. Why do you assume that anyone who doesn’t support the cops is a liberal? Some of us just don’t blindly cling to an ideology.
@No ducks It's a failure all around. Bad police, bad DA, bad mayor. The police do the bare minimum. The DA let's everyone out. The mayor is in it for the money. It's just a cash grab for the biggest paycheck. No one takes pride in the community because everyone sees it as a job not a social responsibility. People who blame "democrats" or "republicans" have been brainwashed into thinking it's black or white issue. News flash Red states are run just as badly as blue states.
This is great; at least both car owners aren't responsible for any tickets due to stolen plates, etc.
Everyone who votes or keep voting for Democrats and for the Mayor of SF thank you for causing it 😉.
Hide your keys in the sand😳 what!?
The dude was lucky AF, so is the lady too. I park in SF and have my window broken into twice. I gave up and just taped over the broken window now, seems like a very good deterrent so far.
The story never says SF parking tickets being voided. How long will that take?
Wow...this is scary
That SF supervisor is so right!
Buy torque head screws with its own adapter. Depending on the car you could also drill a small hole through the plate and attach a cable to a support member.
In Denmark we also have that problem. many people in recent years have started gluing their plates to the car with car window glue, (Polyurethane) so if anyone wants to remove them, they will be destroyed.
That actually happen to me 10 years ago too.They were using it on the toll ways back and forth.Reported it to Houston Police and they took care of it.
This lady is doing more work than the police 🤦♂️
Great job 👏 glad 😃 she could find out who did this 🙏
The front plate does not need the month & year of expiration stickers on it...both plates are photographed as rear plates.... a bit confusing!!!
check the cams around where the stolen car was parked
Katie did what the lazy, overpaid thin blue line gang couldn't do.
No crimes get solved anymore except for by the victims.
Good for her! She has guts!
Gone in 60 second . Great job to the woman who found her own plates
Great job!
When they write the tickets, do they match the license plate with the VIN?
Michigan hasn't had a front plate law for a very long time. The last time I remember having one was in 1982. Good detective work by Katie for not only getting her plate back but also leading to the guy getting his car back as well.
If the stolen plate and car racked up "multiple parking tickets" why didn't any the of the cops writing any of the tickets notice that the plate did not have a registration sticker on the plate?
Good for her !!!
Sad police detectives didn't solve this yet, defund the police is hurting us