I run a van rental company. I've done my best to work with my colleagues in the industry. Last year, during the height of the pandemic, I was elected President of the American Car Rental Association. So I happen to know how frustrated the rental car industry is with this stuff.
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We see a lot of broken windows (not just in SF btw). I have personally tried to help customers after they had their stuff stolen more times than I can remember. Sometimes it's a devastating event. It's never a good experience.
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During my work and education on this issue, I was very surprised to learn that it is just a small number of people who are behind most of the burglaries and thefts we see. SFPD believes it is less than a dozen criminal fencing operations behind *most* of these crimes.
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These fencing rings aren't committing the burglaries themselves. They pay street criminals to do that work for them. It's a big business. The last major ring busted had over $8M of stolen goods in *multiple* warehouses.https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/10/06/major-san-francisco-bay-area-retail-theft-ring-busted-five-suspects-arrested-8-million-in-stolen-merchandise-recovered/ …
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It is *really* hard to catch street level criminals. The crime is over in seconds. It's dangerous to the public to chase them. State laws make it difficult to prosecute. The court systems are backed up, and putting low level criminals in prison is not effective, or sound policy.
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But the people running these theft rings are a different matter. They are running massive operations. They have substantial assets. And they are directly responsible for making tens of thousands of people miserable. We need to put these people out of business.
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When we started seeing the burglary rates go back up this spring I had a conversation with some of my friends at Enterprise, and I threw out a goofy idea: what if we offered a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the ringleaders - the people at the top?
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I'm pretty used to people shooting down my goofy ideas, but this time they didn't. So I started talking to other folks. I approached my friend
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Replying to @Sharkyl @SFPDDCLazar and
look i think its an interesting idea im just not convinced any of us can do anything about this, crime happens because of wealth disparity, thats all there is to it as i see it
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we need to be lifting people out of poverty thats what would work to lower crime
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crime is motivated by the pursuit of wealth, there will always be criminals as long as there are laws which protect wealth accumulation and we live in a society which commodifies literally everything.
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Replying to @plscallmekimi @Sharkyl and
if we crush this crime ring, a new crime ring will emerge to replace it, this has been the story for all time no matter what
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