The best thing about this latest Mark Rober video is that if you know what to look for, you'll see that it matches up with everything I've tried to tell y'all about San Francisco crime:
* SF is the car break-in capital of the USA
* Most car break-ins are not done by Black people
* Most car break-ins are not done by homeless people
* Police are not designed to help you with these car break-ins. Police are designed to abuse Black people.
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The USA is such a racist country, that our reflexive solution to most societal problems, is to find the closest Black population and punish them.
Ending bail reform, recalling progressive DAs, rolling back police accountability measures, and authorizing killer robots, does nothing to end any of these car break-ins.
Notice that the cars the break-in crews jump out of are late model luxury cars, like I said. Lexus. Infiniti. BMW. Benz. Homeless people typically don't have late model luxury cars.
And you should understand why most of the car break-in crews aren't Black. I get pulled over too much in SF. A Black crew would be randomly stopped too much.
San Francisco had a DA that said:
* Stop abusing Black people
* Make the cops do their job
* Stop criminalizing poverty
* Let's go after these professional break-in crews.
And we recalled him for one that said:
* Abuse more Black folk
* Reduce police accountability
* Arrest the homeless
* Break-ins and lawlessness are caused by evil poors
Before David Sacks joined Elon in this anti-woke boardroom at Twitter, where they ended all ERGs, and yelled at a closet full of T-shirts, he funded the recall of San Francisco's progressive DA.
So you see why SF will always have a car break-in problem, for the same reason that the US has so many other problems. All of our solutions are aimed at harming Black folk, when Black folk do almost none of the harm. 🙂🙃
Chesa said "stop hurting Black folk for no reason, and lemme do this"
And SF voters said, "No! Go back to hurting Black folk! We like that better!"
I'm not professing my love for any DA. But the racism of SF voters made this situation where the problem can't get fixed.
If you've had something stolen from your car, know that I've probably been pulled over more times than the person that stole your stuff. SFPD budget is almost $1B/year, just to not follow up on thefts.
A laptop stolen from your car doesn't wind up in a homeless Black person's tent in the Tenderloin. Racism and hate for the homeless makes you believe that lie.
Your laptop goes into a luxury car, then into a Faraday bag, then into a storage container where it is powered down and sits for a while, before being wiped and shipped to another city, where it's listed on Craigslist or another classifieds or auction site.
By volume, that's most of the break-ins. Homeless car smashers are the exception
@mekkaokereke Way back I used to repair people's computers and partner with local stores for drop offs and pickups. One started asking me to reset laptops, flat fee, no data recovery, sometimes had a power brick sometimes they'd ask me to get one. I did one but then asked more questions and they were for sure stolen. I backed the hell away.
I can still remember the girl who set it up. "What's the matter? It's not hurting you."
@reconbot @mekkaokereke When my ~$4K laptop was stolen out of my apartment in Providence a few years ago, I had to do all the leg work of cyber-stalking the fence, and managed to get the cops to set up a sting and seize it from him at the local mall after I handed them his cell phone number, but then they let him go because, and I quote, "he was a harmless fat white kid". Got a call like 2 years later to testify against the guy who actually did the break-in that I had no evidence on...
@elfprince13 @mekkaokereke I once found a laptop ditched on Broadway in Manhattan, it was stolen out of a hotel room and had a German keyboard layout so it probably wasn't easy to sell. It took a few days of sleuthing but we tracked the guy down and shipped it back to Germany for him. The police (from the hotel room break in) dngaf.
@mekkaokereke @reconbot i think the only reason they cared here is (a) because they didn’t have to do anything but text someone and chill at the mall (b) asset value was well high enough to be a felony
@reconbot @elfprince13 @mekkaokereke that checks out.
@reconbot @mekkaokereke when I went to the station to pick up my laptop after it had been recovered, all the officers chilling in the lobby were cracking "I can't breath jokes" (circa December 2014)
@reconbot @mekkaokereke when it was first stolen, my _extremely built_ friend who was ex-Army Intelligence offered to just come with me to get it, and I was pretty tempted (especially since this fencing operation was clearly operating out of an upper-middle class neighborhood so risk of violence seemed low), but was like "nah, don't need to risk things escalating or them throwing out my laptop to avoid getting caught" but after that experience with the cops 🤮🤮🤮
@elfprince13 @mekkaokereke that's so weird and messed up