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> 1: Turns out if you report,...

Wait, what? That's the kind of statement that just begs for a followup. Did they say what they thought was going on to justify that response?

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I have no idea what happened to the OP, but I have had my plate stolen and I did report this to the police. When I reported it stolen, they warned me that anyone caught driving around with it was going to get pulled over at gunpoint, so I'd better report it if I somehow found that it had fallen off or whatever.

I got new plates soon after that, I never found out what happened to mine.

Ah. Perhaps it was standard practice to replace plates on a stolen car with stolen plates from a non-stolen car prior to major crimes such as bank robbery at some point.

But if so you would think the criminals would learn to swap plates instead, as who looks at their plates that closely?

In my case, I reported it via an online form. I figured I'd get some sort of confirmation or response to take to the DMV. Found out what the standard operating procedure was the hard way.

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