Editing Blog/2025-04-15/Catching A Laptop Thief (section)

== The Police ==

By this time, I'd hopped on the phone and called 911 and informed them that we had apprehended the laptop thief. They asked me if both the victim and the suspect were there, and whether the victim wanted to press charges. I assume this meant they wanted to know if we would cooperate with a prosecution. Personally, I would gladly have done so on my own but it's hard without the victim cooperating. And this time, we were fortunate enough that everyone was willing to play. So they sent out a car.

Now one thing the police report from [[Motorcycle Accident|my motorcycle accident]] is that they can get there quite fast when they've got the sirens flying. The ambulance got to me in a few minutes that day (which is probably why I'm in reasonably good shape despite the incident). Well, this incident wasn't as serious as that, so we waited some half an hour. During this time, police dispatch did call the victim back on his cell phone since his call was interrupted.

Fortunately for us, the new Mayor Daniel Lurie has [https://www.sf.gov/mayor-lurie-launches-sfpd-hospitality-task-force-major-new-effort-to-strengthen-public-safety-drive-economic-comeback this SFPD hospitality task force] that goes around places like Yerba Buena Gardens and sees if everything is fine. I spotted them park there and Mario went over to tell them about the whole thing. They came back, and processed the arrest and took our witness statements.