Here in the STL, there was a huge spittlescreeching about how some little municipalities (St. Louis County has over 100 "cities" within the borders) were issuing tickets as revenue generation. And... People who drive hoopties are more likely to pay them, as opposed to wealthier people being more likely to flip it to an attorney, which would then cost the muni money... So, the state basically said that the tickets didn't really mean anything. While at the same time, the social justice warriors carefully explained to our police that they weren't supposed to ever get in a situation where they might have to shoot Sumdood, or they would be utterly destroyed.
So now we have Sumdood and his buddies playing Grand Theft Auto STL, and when they wreck the stolen Dodge Charger, they abandon it, and go steal something else.