Like someone else said it's easier to write speeding tickets. I had a Mustang GT get stolen in front of my house (Suffolk County back in the 1990's) and the cops found the car the next week stripped on the side of the highway. They never lifted a finger to find out who did it. They didn't even pretend to try. It's so easy to catch these guys too, just leave some hot car out under surveillance in a high crime area and follow them after the crime back to the body shop (that's who is behind 99% of car theft on LI) and arrest everyone involved. But it takes a tiny little bit of effort and it's just easier to eat donuts, point the radar gun and harrass people on their way to or from their job.
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