"Many of these rental cars, when they're stolen, are actually used in other crimes. Someone doesn't want to use their own car in a crime because it can be traced so they take a rental car, they steal it and they go commit other crimes," said Assemblymember Matt Haney, emphasizing the need for quicker GPS tracking of stolen rental vehicles.
"Often times, they are driving vehicles through the front doors of business stores, they're not driving their own vehicles through those doors. They're driving stolen rental cars because they don't mind damaging those cars," added District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, highlighting the severe impact of rental car theft on local crime.
"Once that car is entered into the system as stolen, we will have another technological way to make sure that SFPD can do what it needs to, to pull over that car and make an arrest in that situation if necessary," Jenkins stated, stressing the benefits for law enforcement from the bill.
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