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Originally Posted by Sun Belt
They won't. The police won't respond to thefts, vandalism, fraud for 4, 6, 8 hours, maybe even the following day -- unless their is bodily harm involved, then they're there within minutes.
Nobody is going to enforce this.
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I don't remember where you live (if you've ever mentioned it?), but it really depends on the jurisdiction. In South Pasadena, where I live, if you call the cops, they are ON IT. But it's a small city. When I got rear-ended in South Pas, after I called the police, they were there in literally a few minutes, interviewing me and the other driver, making a police report. When I got rear-ended in the city of Los Angeles, when I called the police, I was asked "Was anyone injured?" When I said no, I was then asked if the cars were operational, I said yes, and I was told that there was no reason for the police to come over, to just exchange insurance information and go on my way.
When my parents' neighbors were burglarized in the city of Cerritos (which does not have its own police department), an LA County sheriff's deputy was there within 15 minutes. A former co-worker of mine, who lives in Pasadena (a separate city from South Pasadena), told me that when you call the cops in Pasadena, they take forever to come to your house (however she defined forever), but where she lived, which was near the Altadena (an unincorporated community) border, if you call the sheriff's department, they come over a lot faster.
Again, if you get the health department involved, because really, this is a public health issue, I think they'll be on the business owners. Even apartment building owners. They have to be in compliance.