They patched the law to make it plausible to infer car theft from possession again now (For a while if they caught a tweaker in a stolen car with car theft tools he’d be like “uhh, Bryan gave it to me” and then prosecutors would have to prove there was not in fact another homeless junkie car thief in Portland named Bryan who stole it first. That’s why possession is nine tenths of the law.)
So that’s back down, catalytic converter thefts are up which makes sense cause that’s a second-best way to make money from crime against a parked car, also license plates too. They say it’s to replace the trucks they steal to do even heavier crime in, but plates stolen off a car in the driveway seem to get reported almost as fast as the car itself so not really sure what that helps
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