How do police track stolen cars?

If your car is stolen and there isn't a known suspect you might get pieces of the car back at some time. It is like Rick Bruno said. Now if there is a known suspect the police can work that angle. read more

Mounted on the roof of his cruiser was an automatic license plate reader, a device that scanned hundreds of vehicles' license plates as they entered the parking lot. As each car rolled in, the scanner sent a "ding" to his dashboard computer. read more

When your car was stolen, the car thief would park your car somewhere and then abandoned it. The car was ticketed and put into the parking violation database, which is available online apparently. You can follow the below steps to do a “stolen car” lookup online. read more