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I lost AirPods with an AirTag attached to them in my (now former) apartment complex's parking structure. It was Austin and so APD refused to help recover them despite me telling them there was an AirTag on them and they were still in the area, but moved to a vacant building leased by Google. Still no help from APD. Then, I watched them migrate to a residential address in another nearby town. Again, zero help from the Austin Police Department. Calling the police department in the other city was also of no help.

tl;dr: Don't live in Austin. That Google building's security people were thieves.

Reasons: Nonviolent crimes aren't policed in ATX because they're short ~300 officers. And, it also isn't prosecuted because the DA has the same views as other big cities, leading to more crime and a city death spiral.



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