Chapter 34: I'll Make a Phone Call

Only a quarter of the sheep had been eaten, and everyone in the room had told at least one story of a lost electric scooter. Either themselves, or someone around them.

If averaged out to each year, this number wasn't strange at all; in the bicycle era, even more people lost bicycles.

However, the total number was still very high.

"Did the video surveillance downstairs record the theft process?" Jiang Yuan ate mutton and attached a little importance to it.

"It was recorded, and it was reported to the police, but they couldn't find anyone. By the way, can you find someone to do facial recognition?" Jiang Yongxin, who ran a car wash downstairs, was a young man after all, and he immediately thought of new technology.

Jiang Yuan looked blank: "I don't know. I haven't seen facial recognition in the bureau."

Jiang Yongxin was a little disappointed and said, "The conditions in our county are still too poor."

"There's no facial recognition in the city either. Domestic train stations and airports have hundreds of thousands of people flowing through them; when would facial recognition ever get to that?" Jiang Yuan was helpless.

"But they have it abroad. Can't we learn to build it domestically?" Jiang Yongxin didn't believe it.

"What we are doing domestically is gait recognition... We don't have that either, so don't think about it. Even if we did, it's impossible to use it to find your electric scooter." Jiang Yuan dipped the mutton in chili sauce; he was a bit tired of it.

For the police, solving electric scooter cases is even more troublesome than solving general theft cases. Because an electric scooter is equivalent to stolen goods that can walk by themselves and carry the criminal suspect, its disposal is also simpler than general stolen goods, and committing the crime and leaving the crime scene are generally faster. If the operation is cautious enough, it is basically very difficult to catch anyone.

Even if someone is caught, it is very difficult to fix evidence and successfully prosecute the criminal suspect.

In fact, most ordinary theft cases have no follow-up after being reported to the police. A simple description can prove this point—when the police officers of the police station lose their own mobile phones, they all buy a new one to use.

Furthermore, the attitude of ordinary people towards theft cases is also different from that of the police.

Ordinary people hope to recover their losses, and it is best to punish the thief, so the primary goal of ordinary people is to find the lost property, and the secondary goal is to find the criminal. But when the police solve a case, the first thing to do is to fix evidence, followed by finding the criminal suspect, third is successful prosecution, and fourth is finding the lost property.

If it is a homicide or a major case, then achieving the primary task, which is fixing evidence, can barely be considered qualified work. If you can't catch the person, you can find a way to pursue them later. Some suspects run away after committing a crime, and there is no way to arrest them.

But if it is changed to a theft case, just fixing evidence is obviously unqualified. Not only is the victim dissatisfied, but the police themselves are also dissatisfied. It is equivalent to doing useless work for a day or two, or two or three days.

In theft cases, the police must achieve the first three goals at once, that is, fixing evidence, catching the person, and handling the case for prosecution, to barely be considered to have completed the task. But even so, it still cannot reach the minimum expectation of the reporter, which is finding the lost property.

But even if the lost property is found and all four tasks are completed at the same time, for the police, the harvest of this operation is still extremely small. It is just solving a case worth thousands of yuan, catching one or several minor criminals, and recovering losses of thousands of yuan.

Therefore, in small counties where police force has always been scarce, theft cases and the like have always been low-attention cases. Only when the number of police reports increases sharply for a period of time, and it is discovered that it is a gang crime or a serial case, can they be slightly more active. The premise is that there are no newly occurred homicides and other major cases recently.

And for the police officers directly participating in the cases, theft cases are not only unnutritious but also very annoying.

Because not only do they not attach importance to this kind of case, but other colleagues in the bureau also look down on it, so fingerprinting requires queuing, on-site investigation requires begging, and watching videos relies entirely on oneself. Everywhere is the lowest priority configuration...

Even so, you can't complain. Complaining means you don't understand the situation—the experts doing fingerprints are working on homicides, robbery cases, and serial arson cases. You take a newly occurred electric scooter theft case and demand comparison; do you want to cut the line?

Fortunately, Jiang Yuan himself can do fingerprints and also understands on-site investigation...

For electric scooter theft cases, having these two skills is enough.

People who are smart, cautious, and have strong execution will take the college entrance examination, kill people, steal hearts, and won't come to steal electric scooters.

"I'll find someone to help later and see if I can find one or two electric scooters." Jiang Yuan said quite cautiously. However, he also felt it was quite good to do something for the villagers. There must be some human interaction and worldly wisdom among relatives, and as a junior forensic doctor, he couldn't think of doing things on the cutting edge every time he helped relatives.

The emotions of the people in the room rose.

Auntie Hua praised even more: "It's different to be a civil servant; you can help. Unlike my Junye, who won't work when asked, won't take the civil service exam when asked, and can't marry a wife when asked..."

Jiang Yuan looked at Auntie Hua, whose emotions were rising higher and higher, and had to remind her: "Auntie, the electric scooter you lost the year before last, if you look for it this year, you definitely won't find it."

"It's okay, I'm not short of money." Auntie Hua waved her hand, looking very indifferent, and then added: "It's not necessarily impossible to find. A thief can't be a thief for a lifetime, and can't just be one for a year. Unless his family has also been demolished, otherwise how can he stop if he stops his hands?"

Jiang Yuan felt that Auntie Hua was wrong, but also felt that she wasn't far off.

Jiang Yongxin ate the ribs in his hand in two or three bites, wiped his mouth, and asked more actively: "Jiang Yuan, you call someone, and I'll go to the property management and let them adjust the video."

The two electric scooters he lost were both lost this year, and there was still hope of finding them back. More importantly, he not only ran a car wash but also ran a car and electric scooter parts shop, and he was dissatisfied with both the theft cases and the surrounding public security.

Jiang Yuan looked at the sky outside the window and said: "It's too late. You can't call people whenever you want. Hmm... I'll make a phone call first."

What Jiang Yuan had in mind was Wei Zhenguo, and the phone call was also made to Wei Zhenguo.

The Sixth Squadron where Wei Zhenguo was located had been doing theft-related property infringement cases all year round, and it could be considered a proper criminal investigation squadron.

Wei Zhenguo, who had only left a few hours ago, thought there was some unfinished business with the arson case, so he quickly answered the phone and asked happily: "Wu Wu Fa Yi Jiang, you say..."

A smile appeared on Jiang Yuan's face: "Captain Wei, you said before, if there's anything you need help with, definitely find you..." ===== CHAPTER 35 =====