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I'm a property crimes prosecutor. Our motor vehicle theft detectives and I have noticed a weird new trend. When the cars are recovered, a noticeable amount have had the rear view mirror removed. Theories range from the thieves are keeping them as trophies to they think there's some sort of tracking device in the mirrors, like onstar. It's a newer trend so we think it's younger thieves. Notice anything like that with your subjects? Opinions?

That occurred to us. But they're also doing it on pos cars that obviously don't have onstar. Guess it may be a better safe than sorry thing.

Also, I can't stress what an amazing job you did on this article. These days, it seems the media is saturated with pieces on crime and law enforcement which quickly jump to conclusions (on all sides) with little to no research or understanding of the issues. These issues are so multi-faceted. It's refreshing to read a well-informed, well-researched article dealing with such a complicated problem which I deal with daily. Great job and thank you.