totally out of the norm. july 28th, 2008. arlington, texas. detective jesse minton of the arlington police department auto theft unit is alerted that a bait car has been broken into. bait cars rigged with cameras and gps tracking equipment are used by police departments nationwide to catch thieves in areas where auto theft is a recurring problem. we pick a car that looks like cars that are most stolen. with those cars, we take some time and install the equipment, so we can lock the doors remotely, kill the engine remotely. record everything inside with video cameras and microphones. then we deploy them to a place where we have a crime problem or persons stealing cars in the area. we re basically fishing with the bait. the bait car, a sporty red
community in america. sheriff doug gillespie encourages his force of more than 3,000 officers to be creative. policing cannot be reactive when people call you for help. you to have proactive, come up with different ideas, some old, some new. don t accept just being good. so the vegas police find opportunities to catch thieves in the act. lately here car theft has been jumping. as you may remember from our last report, we re once again riding along with lieutenant bobby duvall who runs the viper squad a specialized unit formed to combat auto theft. hundreds of cars are stolen even month in las vegas, costing victims millions of dollars. just three years ago, vegas led the country in auto theft. with aggressive policing, numbers have been dropping. his team uses specially designs bait cars rigged with hidden cameras.
you re watching realtime video of a thief in the act of stealing a car. it happens over and over again. in fact, every 30 seconds another car is stolen somewhere in america. until just a few years ago las vegas led the nation in auto theft. [ sirens ] but the police here responded with a specialized unit called viper, and soon the crime numbers began falling. we have state of the art bait car program. we ve been riding along with a lieutenant showing us specialized bait cars. this has a map. each car is represented by a color. here s how it works. two undercover detectives, a
you re watching realtime video of a thief in the act of stealing a car. it happens over and over again. in fact, every 30 seconds another car is stolen somewhere in america. until just a few years ago las vegas led the nation in auto theft. but the police here responded with a specialized unit called viper, and soon the crime numbers began falling. we ve been riding along with an lieutenant showing us specialized bait cars. this has a map. each car is represented by a color. here s how it works. two undercover detectives, a
the operator of the vehicle. totally out of the norm. july 28th, 2008. arlington, texas. detective jesse minton of the arlington police department auto and theft unit is alerted that a bait car has been broken into. bait cars rigged with cameras and gps tracking equipment are used by police departments nationwide to catch thieves in areas where auto theft is a recur being problem. we pick a car that looks like cars that are most stolen. with those cars we take some time and install the equipment so we can lock the doors remotely. kill the engine remotely. record everything inside with video cameras and microphones. then we deploy the cars out to a location where we either have a crime problem or persons are stealing those kind of cars in that area. we re basically fishing with the bait. the bait car, a red chrysler sebring is stolen just down the