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Originally Posted by Evergreen6
It is used to track down stolen cars. Sometimes.
But then we rely on our uniformed public servants to go track the vehicles down for us. Vehicle theft is a lower priority than violent crime and other types of theft.
Police aren't paid very well. Folks aren't willing to foot the additional tax bill to seriously bolster department resources and add 200,300% more officers or fund vehicle theft units fully.
Let's say they catch the crook who stole your car. Then what? Put them in prison, pay all their food, housing, and medical expenses? And when you let them out, they go back to stealing?
Arpad might be on to something, although we elected not to have an authoritarian government, and our police aren't that crooked. There's all kinds of corruption in the UAE, you just have to be someone in order for authorities to look the other way.
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Whether or not the police immediately respond is not the point. All the post-steal data should be in a GM data-bank, if the data collection is not stopped by the thief. Are you saying that every stolen car's location is known to GM, yet not available, either immediately or some point, to law enforcement? Whether or not the thief is caught, the data should show some important info.
Either the thieves know how to stop data collection, or GM has it post-crime.