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by w0mbat 1883 days ago
If there was an easy mechanism to temporarily hand over tracking of stolen tags/iPhones/iPads to police, with the nice ultra wideband tracking that gives an arrow and direction, police would go and get a lot of stuff back. The police love low-hanging fruit and easy arrests.
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You can already do this today with iPhones and iPads and the police won’t do anything
Chasing down petty thieves is not the low hanging fruit most police departments go for.
They'd be interested if drug activity in that house were reported. Then they could raid the house, and keep whatever goods weren't broken or burned in the raid for themselves.