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Denver mother is forced to track down her OWN stolen car after city's police department claimed they were 'too busy to help'

A Denver woman was forced to take matters into her own hands when she walked out of her job Monday afternoon to find her bright red Mazda SUV missing.

Holly Kaufman was furious when she realized her car was stolen - and she called the police, but also started tracking her vehicle via the Madza app after cops told her that they were too busy to at that moment to send someone to investigate. 

The mother told Fox KDVR that she had experience with vehicle theft and didn't want to risk losing it for good or having it damaged beyond recognition.

'In the past, I've had a vehicle stolen and they rip out your whole car, tear everything up, try to live in it and put drugs in it,' Kaufman said. 

'I'm a working mom and it's hard nowadays to make car payments,' she added. 'This is a car that I carry my 4-year-old son in, so I'm like, "This not happening in my car."' 

I am acquainted with someone in Portland, Oregon whose car was broken into outside her house three times, and every time, the police told her over the telephone that they no longer responded to property crimes, but did provide her with their online reporting portal where it would be ignored. The third time, the thieves were actively breaking in — “I’m watching them out my window” — and still the cops wouldn’t come. She has since moved out to the far outskirts of the city where, as she puts it, “I hear birds in the morning, not gunshots”.

That Denver mother was foolish to risk confronting the thieves who stole her car, but I understand her desperation, and, probably, her sense of being abandoned by those who are supposed to protect her. If I saw someone breaking into my car outside my window I have no doubt that I would grab one of my guns and go outside and tell them to cease and desist. Would I shoot a teenager over property theft? No, but if he threatened me, yes.

And I’m a pretty reasonable guy; others aren’t, and as the police stop policing and leave citizens on their own, I expect that we’ll start seeing more instances of victims fighting back. In NYC, that will result in trials for the victims, as we’ve seen in the case of NYC subway hero Daniel Penny; in other areas, like Florida, you’ll be awarded a Good Citizens Award” by the local sheriff. Either way, we’re in for interesting times.