Funny how for the last many years thefts have been on the rise with very few recoveries. Now, all of a sudden in the last few months, with numbers reaching unheard of levels and a the police feeling some heat, suddenly we're hearing about all sorts of busts and recoveries. Perhaps police forces have actually been able to do something about this all along but were just choosing not to?
Anyhow, on another topic, what happened to the spray-in "millions of VIN number" tag things that they used to have? They loaded them into some sprayer machine and sprayed them in every nook and cranny in the vehicle, I think they had some adjesive as well that made them stick. The premise was that with literally millions of them (they were basically like tiny confetti / glitter) all over every body part inside and out (although where you wouldn't normally see them) that there was no way to actually remove all of them in a meaningful fashion and accordingly, it made the parts harder to sell, and made the vehicle basically traceable until the end of time as there was no way to get them off every single body part.
Is this not a thing anymore?
Anyhow, in the short term, in addition to GPS (which has it's faults and limitations), some sort of super stealthy proximity pinger system would seem to be something they should explore, with receivers mounted at all border crossings and ports of entry and exit. It does nothing until it detects a vehicle in "stolen" mode, and then it sets off an alarm or alert somewhere. Even if a vehicle is in a seacan on it's way to a ship to head overseas, unless they start lining the cans in lead, it'll go off.
That, and they need to start screening seacans more and more. Xraying every 100th one as it comes in and out just doesn't seem to be working anymore.
Anyhow, on another topic, what happened to the spray-in "millions of VIN number" tag things that they used to have? They loaded them into some sprayer machine and sprayed them in every nook and cranny in the vehicle, I think they had some adjesive as well that made them stick. The premise was that with literally millions of them (they were basically like tiny confetti / glitter) all over every body part inside and out (although where you wouldn't normally see them) that there was no way to actually remove all of them in a meaningful fashion and accordingly, it made the parts harder to sell, and made the vehicle basically traceable until the end of time as there was no way to get them off every single body part.
Is this not a thing anymore?
Anyhow, in the short term, in addition to GPS (which has it's faults and limitations), some sort of super stealthy proximity pinger system would seem to be something they should explore, with receivers mounted at all border crossings and ports of entry and exit. It does nothing until it detects a vehicle in "stolen" mode, and then it sets off an alarm or alert somewhere. Even if a vehicle is in a seacan on it's way to a ship to head overseas, unless they start lining the cans in lead, it'll go off.
That, and they need to start screening seacans more and more. Xraying every 100th one as it comes in and out just doesn't seem to be working anymore.
