Posted on 03/01/2022 10:22:16 AM PST by blam
DES PLAINES, Ill., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Cities across the United States have experienced an unprecedented rise in auto thefts and carjackings in recent years. David Glawe, president and CEO of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), provided comprehensive expert testimony today before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding this complex issue.
Cities across the United States have experienced an unprecedented rise in auto thefts and carjackings in recent years
In his testimony, Glawe spoke on the staggering increase in auto thefts and carjackings plaguing many states and major cities throughout the United States, the apparent connection between auto thefts and carjackings and other serious violent crimes, and how NICB partners closely with federal and local law enforcement to resolve these cases. Glawe also provided lawmakers with concrete policy recommendations for them to consider in addressing the overarching problem.
“Vehicle theft and carjackings are serious offenses that warrant the attention of public officials and policymakers,” said Glawe, the former Under Secretary and Chief Intelligence Officer at the Department of Homeland Security and a 30-year law enforcement veteran. “The victims of thefts and carjackings are deserving of being vindicated and seeing that justice is served. And offenders should be held accountable for putting victims and their communities in harm’s way.”
NICB, which collects data on auto thefts nationally and across many local jurisdictions, found that car thefts nationwide increased by 16.5% in 2021 compared to 2019 and nearly 29% compared to 2017. Colorado, for example, experienced 79% more auto thefts in 2021 compared to 2019, and Wisconsin had 74% more auto thefts over the same period. Additionally, the total volume of thefts between 2019 and 2021 was staggering. California, for example, saw over 200,000 auto thefts in 2021 compared to 160,000 in 2019.
More alarmingly, many large cities have experienced triple digit increases in carjackings. Unlike auto theft, a carjacking involves violent confrontation with an offender or the perceived threat of violence that could cause death or serious bodily injury. Some of the largest increases in carjacking trends between 2019 and 2021 occurred in:
◾New York: 286% increase
◾Philadelphia: 238% increase
◾Chicago: 207% increase
◾Washington, D.C.: 200% increase
◾New Orleans: 159% increase
During his testimony, Glawe offered six policy recommendations for the Committee to consider, including increasing community policing programs, revising well-intentioned criminal justice reform policies, enforcing existing laws as written, focusing attention on violent offenders, collecting national and state data on carjackings, and identifying and implementing successful early intervention programs.
“Many cities have cut police forces or slashed department funding in recent years,” said Glawe. “Drastically reducing police presence in communities across the country is not the answer. Whether through the federal COPS program or other measures, we need more community policing, not less.”
Additionally, Glawe stressed the need for state and local authorities to enforce the laws as written.
“In many jurisdictions, the law as written provides adequate penalties,” said Glawe. “However, certain enforcement or reform policies have effectively nullified these laws, thereby providing little disincentive for criminals to commit these serious offenses.”
Glawe’s testimony is available here: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/federal-support-for-preventing-and-responding-to-carjackings
Just some free-lance socialists getting their reparations a little early.
We used to hang horse thieves, just saying.
In black-led, demoncrat-controlled hell holes!
One - chip shortage and other factors have slowed production of cars and greatly increased used car prices. Of course criminals are going to take advantage of that.
Two - The fact that you can’t easily hot wire cars since the late 90s means that car jacking is one of the best ways to steal a car.
None of this is rocket science and requires a useless committee to investigate it.
Auto thefts up 40,000?
Good grief!
“...provided comprehensive expert testimony today before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding this complex issue.”
Complex issue? Da fuq?! What is so xplex about feral, black, urban “youths” stealing cars and mugging people?
Let me clue these over paid idiotic bureaucrats:
If you defund a city’s animal control department (dog catchers), the city will eventually be overrun by feral dogs, cats, rats and other vermin, and the same thing happens when you defund your police department. The only difference is the vermin that the police normally work to control have guns and knives and tend be as lethal as a rabid St. Bernard. They will beat, stab, rape, shoot and kill you even if you comply with their demands. They are feral and rabid animals and must be put down like all rabid vermin.
Just undocumented reparations.
“Vehicle theft and carjackings are serious offenses that warrant the attention of public officials and policymakers”
These folks need to get briefed on “black privilege”.
Black folks are just undocumented owners of these vehicles.
“Auto thefts up 40,000?”
Who knows? But one more reason to own old cars.
One of the number one stats that Hoover used to cite for his budget was the number of stolen vehicles recovered. So, why not make that a goal of the current Wray bunch. Keep them away from school boards and the like.
Milwaukee, with a population of less than 900,000 had around 10,000 vehicle thefts in 2021. Reparations, man!
Cultural decimation.
(Abstract) The history of human cultures is frequently marked by a distinctive pattern of evolution that paleobiologists term diversification and decimation. Under this process, fundamentally new socioeconomic systems appear during periods of dramatic cultural diversification, typically through cultural cladogenesis.
Discuss.
Denver is the new Capital of Auto Theft!
Cops and more laws can not stop it.
More secure cars can not stop it. And anyone who has lost his Apple password and turned his Iphone into a brick knows the complicated life totally secure items can make your life.
There is only one way to stop the car jackings and thefts and that is a combination of two things: The right for owners and occupants of autos to shoot the thieves combined with long prison terms for those thieves who survive. And the terms must be served.
Carjacking is not a crime according to Democrats.
If they weren’t shot dead in the act.
Awe Come on man, they need them cars to get to their jobs of rapin, robbin and killin
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