What do you all think is the proper move if you see someone ready to break into your car as you approach?
Take their picture! That is usually enough to get them to move on.
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What do you all think is the proper move if you see someone ready to break into your car as you approach?
Oh man. I was parked in that area earlier today. These are not bad neighborhoods. It could be that's what's making them targets, though.
All that you could do at that moment is try to scare them off
Cupertino doesn't actually have a PD. It's served by a combination of the San Jose PD and the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office. I initially called the latter and they directed me to the San Jose PD for non-emergency reports. I did receive an email confirmation of the police report, but nothing further. It's interesting to note that Santa Clara County does have an auto theft task force. Hopefully they're on this, even though it's more about vandalism and theft from cars, not car thefts.Did anyone get an update / acknowledgement from any of the PDs ? Hoping that Sunnyvale and Cupertino PDs are more actively looking into this.
Oh my, your nativity will be your undoingI think the best things to do is to start a video feed of them. If you are on twitter or Facebook or instagram or other platform LIVE feed and start talking (or fake it if you don't have a connection).
I am here in "place" San Jose at my car at 1st and Tasman and this man is trying to break my back windshield. He is white, 5'10" about 210 pounds. Oh he has an accomplice nearby....
That would be quite a scene if his nativity were showing.Oh my, your nativity will be your undoing
You're a wise man.That would be quite a scene if his nativity were showing.
Spell check and not proof reading did me inThat would be quite a scene if his nativity were showing.
City Council of San Jose voted about a decade ago to make San Jose a destination for destitute poor displaced by hurricanes. The first layer of these refugees seem ok, but then they invite all of their relatives who are drug dealers, pimps, murderers, scammers, and thieves, and they go to town, so to speak. The police not doing as much also hurts. There's other things as well, but I don't feel the need to bring them up right now. My point is that the neighborhood may be traditionally safe, but not as much any more. By the way, that particular intersection is within a few blocks of a huge trailer park, so just keep in mind your assumptions of who lives around there and how they may be slightly wrong.Oh man. I was parked in that area earlier today. These are not bad neighborhoods. It could be that's what's making them targets, though.
That one is interesting because the rear quarter glass wasn't broken, just the rear door window. There must have been something clearly visible on the back seat or floor.
I'm leaving the parcel shelf off for now.
While fact-checking my post, I realized I was too conservative; (1) it's within a block of the closest trailer park, which I know to be a not-well-to-do area, and (2) there are a lot of brand new massive super super high density housing projects, with many % designated for low income. These tend to be populated by poor and not so bad people, but then of course, they have their worst relatives move in, and things go down hill, as previously described above with the council.City Council of San Jose voted about a decade ago to make San Jose a destination for destitute poor displaced by hurricanes. The first layer of these refugees seem ok, but then they invite all of their relatives who are drug dealers, pimps, murderers, scammers, and thieves, and they go to town, so to speak. The police not doing as much also hurts. There's other things as well, but I don't feel the need to bring them up right now. My point is that the neighborhood may be traditionally safe, but not as much any more. By the way, that particular intersection is within a few blocks of a huge trailer park, so just keep in mind your assumptions of who lives around there and how they may be slightly wrong.
You sound like one of those conservative deplorables.City Council of San Jose voted about a decade ago to make San Jose a destination for destitute poor displaced by hurricanes. The first layer of these refugees seem ok, but then they invite all of their relatives who are drug dealers, pimps, murderers, scammers, and thieves, and they go to town, so to speak. The police not doing as much also hurts. There's other things as well, but I don't feel the need to bring them up right now. My point is that the neighborhood may be traditionally safe, but not as much any more. By the way, that particular intersection is within a few blocks of a huge trailer park, so just keep in mind your assumptions of who lives around there and how they may be slightly wrong.
What? They randomly broke glass on 13 cars just on the off chance that some were carrying a laptop?
I work in Sunnyvale, can confirm."Off chance"? In Sunnyvale? Probably have a better chance finding a laptop in the car than floor mats...
They are not following the Mayor Giuliani method of enforcement, but the other issue is that it is hard to find them. Facial recognition software paired with good AP2 HW surround-cam footage would actually work, but the forces that be (Tesla, police departments) don't want to do it. As you said, it is not a priority. My poor advice to anyone is make it annoying for them to go target a car, and they might not do it. (I have some more rugged and rural type of advice, but it is something I feel like is not appropriate for TMC.)Another one, September 7th near El camino + Lawrence. Called Santa Clara PD non-emergency number and they directed me to an online form to self-report the incident. I asked if it's safe to get in / use the car, the operator got frustrated and said "THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO EVEN IF SEND A CAR OUT THERE". I'm going to take that as it's not very high on their list of crimes