>>64407361 (OP)
>what happened to drive by shootings, are they still things
On the one hand you hear about them sometimes but on the other hand there is now a metric shitload of surveillance everywhere, especially in melanin-rich environments - ShotSpotter, traffic cameras, software for automatically grabbing license plates and faces, wireless CCTV on residences and businesses, etc. plus other stuff like cell phone towers and social media.
Let's say that Jaquarius and LaNugget decide to smoke Tyreesespieces and do so, getting caught on video. In 1994 they're in a boosted Caprice. Their guns are Norinco AKs that have changed hands eight times before now and entered the country illegally in the first place. The only video is a potatocam blob of a "light-colored late-model sedan". There's no license plate that can be made out. When the car is found ditched in an alley, it's dusted for prints and there's one partial that can't be matched to anything. The case goes unsolved.
In 2025, they're in a boosted Elantra. Their guns are glawk brand glawks with switches that Jaquarius' girl straw purchased. The police know this because there is HD color video of everything but the actual shooting. They got caught on four traffic cameras headed to the scene of the shooting and three afterwards, including plates or the lack thereof. The police know where to start looking because the ShotSpotter towers caught the whole thing and immediately alerted them. The police immediately put out an APB on the car and when it turns up ditched in an alley the forensics teams go over it with a fine-toothed comb and find LaNugget's DNA on the seatbelt. That's enough PC to run LaNugget's phone records and find out that yes, he was in a neighborhood where a matching Elantra got boosted. They arrest LaNugget, find the glawk on him and immediately run it down and discover the straw purchase. Between the blickies and LaNugget's DNA, they have enough to charge both of them and they both plead out.