[FoRK] Open Arms

[Stephen D. Williams]

Exactly.  And, to some extent, they are just a train / Bart ride away.

Which leads to the point that these guys know they have safe havens that 
they can slip off to where they aren't going to be successfully chased 
by either cops or bystanders.  Which leads to the conclusion that the 
cops are ineffective.  The problems don't spill over to the nicer 
neighborhoods so much, probably, exactly because they'd be stranded in a 
sea of people who would chase their ass, calling in their location the 
whole way.

I was working at my colocation site in Cincinnati once, years ago, and 
was leaving late on a Sunday or something.  I happened to be behind this 
Taurus on the highway that sure seemed like it had been stolen.  (Funny 
configuration of lights, etc. like it had been hotwired.)  I called it 
in to police, but they probably just blew it off.

The lesson I learned from the episode late last year where I geolocated 
my daughter's stolen phone is this: If you want to get police help on a 
theft or similar, ask for the most junior detective on the force, often 
on third shift.  They're still wanting to prove their mettle and they'll 
go after little stuff or long(er) shots.

sdw

J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>> Not that I think guns are bad. Now in the Bay Area, I think there are 
>> more murders in the news here so far than ever in DC.
>
>
> Ironic, since most parts of the Bay Area, and certainly where most 
> vaguely engineer-ish types are found, are among the safest in the US 
> (and most of the industrialized world if you extend the coverage to 
> "violent crime").  Silicon Valley proper may be deadly boring, but it 
> is ridiculously safe by the same virtue -- you would have to try 
> pretty hard to look for trouble to get into it.  The greater Bay Area 
> contains some of the very safest and most dangerous spots in the US, 
> and never the 'tween shall meet.
>
> J. Andrew Rogers
>
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