NYPD meets FMI: Cop nabs iPhone thief in NYC

Oh, but let us not forget that Bloomberg claims that guns are illegal in NY and that passing more gun control laws will make the public safer! Ha! That lunacy aside, good for Robert Garland.

It's exciting to see the new possibilities of technology for recovering lost or stolen goods. As you state, this is probably not the norm, but still incredible that someone recovered their phone with the iCloud technology.

Sarah
Mosaic Technology
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What do Americans mean when they say "boot"? To me that's the back part of a car (a.k.a. the "trunk") or a type of footwear. Since the guy was walking it's probably not in his car, and I don't see why someone who stuff a phone into their shoes. So does "boot" mean 'back pocket of their trousers'?

Someone having their property taken from them by use or threat of force is very different than a person discovering their iPhone was "stolen" from their backpack when they were not looking. This story fails to mention that had the suspect's appearance not been known by the officers, they would never have arrested the guy simply because they heard beeping coming from his boot. Police don't do anything other than take a report for most stolen property if there is no witness to the crime, because they cannot do anything else. It is a civil matter, not a criminal one. Technically, it is lost property. I know this sucks when it is your iPad that someone has taken and you just feel like you have to do something to get the scum who took it. The officers understand this, too.

They also know that the person reporting their property stolen could be setting up their ex- who was just caught cheating and this is payback. Another example: your friend borrowed your car and now refuses to return it. Guess what? This is not considered a criminal matter... It's civil. The officers have enough crap to deal with daily than to open up a can of worms like this. So don't hate on the cops for doing their job properly and obeying the law. If they could do more, most would.

Refreshing, this day in age, to hear a story of a cop serving the public as opposed to locking horns with them.

The only reason the cop did that because she was robbed at gunpoint. If someone stole your iPhone normally, you can forget about cops doing anything about it, even if its a female and you have Find My iPhone. Trust me, I seen it happen a couple times this year already.

Of course they don't tell the ethnicity of the suspect. *cough* black guy *cough*

That's great. I had my iPhone stolen in Boston, used the Find My iPhone feature to track it down to an exact address where it stayed for several hours, and couldn't get BPD to so much as drive by the location.

In related news, police supposedly use Find My iPhone to recover another iPhone stolen from a woman aboard a Long Island Rail Road train.

http://mobile.newsday.com/inf/infomo;JSESSIONID=2F84864F6C1C64B35F15.3216?site=newsday&view=search_results_item&feed:a=newsday_5min&feed:c=crime&feed:i=1.3481396&nopaging=1

If only the NYPD would have been that helpful when mine was taken. They bounced me around to different precincts until the phone stopped popping up on the Find My iPhone.