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Wealthy business or person calls cops to report a crime: cops immediately act upon it (usually despite a lack of any legal cause for arrest such as an officer witnessing the commission of a crime or getting an arrest warrant), presuming guilt.

Anyone else calls cops to report a crime: cops will come out to take a report in a few days, at which point they will ... do nothing. Hope you have insurance that covers theft.




The arrests mentioned in this article took place days to months after the false theft reports.


I never claimed otherwise.


If you call to report a stolen car the same will happen which makes your observation wrong.

Overconfidently wrong based on tone.


keep believing that. Hope your car doesn't get stolen.


You're claiming if you report your car stolen the police won't stop if it they run the plates?


Where did I say that?




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