I'm Jimmy Wallace and this is the incarnate investigation. One night around dinner time a partner and I were driving down the road and saw a car that had a busted rear window.

The broken window always stands out to us on patrol because, well, number one, it's unusual to see a car with a broken window, but two, a broken window can be a specific indicator of criminal activity.

One of the most common ways for a suspect to force their way into the car to steal it or items out of it

is just to smash the window and there's a number of easy and quick ways to do this.

So when we see a broken window on a car driving down the road, it immediately gets me wondering if the car might

be recently stolen. On top of that I noticed the car was relatively nondescript.

It was an older model car. These are the exact type of cars commonly targeted by car thieves because they blend in.

At least criminals think that. They think the common-looking cars won't draw extra attention from police.

And criminals are usually stealing

cars because they want to do other things with the car like commit other crimes

and so they don't want to be stopped by the police in the process so they try to target cars that will blend in with

traffic and maybe they'll get lucky a police officer even if one was around

might drive right by not realize the car was stolen. So the fact that the car was stolen.

So the fact that the car was consistent with the type of cars that are commonly stolen, and the fact the rear window was broken out

really raised my suspicions about it.

On top of that, we ran the license plate. We found out that the registered

owner was a female. But the only person we saw in the car was a male in like his early 20s. So everything I was seeing kind of made me a little suspicious about

the car. It was certainly consistent with what a stolen car would look like, but there was no

way to know for sure at that time if the vehicle was stolen or not or if the driver was a type of criminal.

I mean, in fact, if the vehicle had been reported stolen, we would have seen that when we ran the vehicle's license

flight.

So when we ran the license flight and it did not come back as a reported stolen vehicle, it means that if it was stolen we would have it would have had

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