Bait car operations are very simple. Firstly, have an LEO off-team to spawn a civilian vehicle, have them park it in a busy area (such as Redwood CD) fully unlocked. Have multiple Law Enforcement Officers around the area of the bait vehicle in unmarked vehicles (like the picture at the top of this topic), once someone decides to jump into the vehicle and drive off, immediately communicate with the other LEOs, pursue the suspect, preform a C7 and eventually arrest.
OPINIONS
I personally support the idea of Bait cars, now yes, we do lack training in doing this but I’m sure a simple joint department training on this won’t hurt anybody.
And yes, the Governor has stated in #state-announcements to not do “bait cars” but I’m just asking for the publics opinion.
to be fair, car theft is like the least common crime in v2 (except for reckless driving a train of course), i think its a waste of time/resources to do a bait car when units are best spent doing something more pro-active
i agree. thats why we would only have around 2 units dedicated to this operation, the rest would get involved once someone gets in the bait vehicle and drives off.
this operation would obviously be done in a server that has 8+ units actively patrolling. in the long run, having this operation would raise awareness of this issue and eventually citizens will catch on to this and stop stealing vehicles.
I have seen civilians attempt to steal cars before but cause theyre broke, not to commit GTA. it doesnt happen often. could it rarely work? yes. do i think its worth manpower? no
