Posted on 07/18/2018 1:37:07 PM PDT by CedarDave
For the second year in a row the Albuquerque area was rated No. 1 in the country – in auto theft, that is.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau found that Bernalillo and neighboring counties kept the 2016 streak alive with nearly 10,000 auto thefts in 2017, according to statistics released Thursday.
Analyzing data from the National Crime Information Center, the bureau found 9,989 auto thefts across Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and Valencia counties in 2017. That ranks the area No. 1 in the country for auto thefts per capita.
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Wisconsin (not Madison or Milwaukee) has a winter rule. Everyone respects a running car in a parking spot when it’s winter. Nobody turns their car off when running errands and such. Nobody steals your car.
Notice almost all the places have large populations of Mexicans. All the Central Valley CA cities are rife with them.
Why there? Anyone?
WELFARE KINGS.
Springfield has a big meth problem
Interesting, thanks.
I was sondering if there was a strong correlation with the number of lowered Chebbys.
Deter thieves by driving a Lada Riva.
Sounds like the Albuquerque PD has to get a few “ bait cars” up and running
...besides seal clubbing...not a lot to do...*smiles*
About 5 years or so ago they did an audit of a Mexican parking lot noted for the consistent presence of premium autos there:
They ran the VINs and found that almost ALL the cars had been stolen from the USA.
IT WAS A MEXICAN POLICE STATION.
They do have bait cars, but like the idiots that they are, they also have large, flashing signs say "WARNING, BAIT CARS BEING USED IN THIS AREA".
I kid you not.
Or any AMC/Renault vehicle
It’s a straight shot down to Juarez.
The Alliance...of rust.
Some jury or judge ruled “bait cars” to be entrapment, so one cholo got charges dropped. I guess the stupid sign is considered the remedy?
Which deters thieves in that area, cuz they don't know what's what.
That being said, I have a co-worker who didn't learn his lesson the first time his car was stolen here in Albuquerque. He left it running and went back into his house for his briefcase. Not more than 30 seconds, and it was gone. That car disappeared. No luck in tracking it. His replacement vehicle was also stolen a few months later, because he did the same damned thing.
That vehicle was found within a few days and returned, thankfully not destroyed.
I think he learned his lesson on the second one. Maybe his was a "lightning-doesn't-strike-twice" kind of mentality.
Place all Plutonium Containers face down on the back seat so the Radioactive Symbol is not showing.
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