Posted on 08/23/2023 8:02:40 AM PDT by george76
Dang white privilege peeps out there stealing all the vehicles no doubt
And the best the left can do is to tell us not to confront the thieves because “it’s only stuff.”
Newsflash: It’s my stuff that I paid my money to buy. Insurance will give me some money, but not replacement value.
My son paid $15,000 for a used F-150. It was destroyed two months later by a drunk driver while it was parked.
He only got $12,000 from his insurance company.
It’s about time car thieves were treated like horse thieves in the old west.
Defunding the police means fewer detectives, which means that certain criminal investigations must be deprioritized. I guess car theft is among them.
Do they steal many EVs ?
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Kia-Boyz.
So the most hoodrat of car, is the easiest to steal. Great combo.
““It looks like these are mostly Kia and Hyundai related … select makes and models are vulnerable to thefts,” Lopez said.”
My Hyundai was stolen from my buildings garage. My other Hyundai has been broken into twice. After a week and a half, my car was found, but now I have to repair it.
Blame the thefts on the car makers. Sounds bout right.
I recall watching a documentary on auto theft and the criminals can even strip down cars and make almost completely new ones from the parts.
But “crime” is still down. Most stolen vehicles are probably considered “gone joy-riding”. Cuts down on the paperwork.
and those 4% only get solved because the cops find the car burned out, crashed and abandoned, or found as evidence used in another crime like a murder
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate attacks the middle class.
“Chicago Police Department crime statistics show a sharp rise in car thefts — from just under 9,000 in 2019 to more than 21,000 last year. That’s a 139% spike in just three years.”
I would have thought it was much higher than that.
The mare of Chicago has done better than I suspected. The horse’s laugh is on me.
I took an airtag, removed the speaker and hid it in my camper van. If it ever got stolen, the thief might detect that there is a tracker somewhere in the van, but it would be nearly impossible for him to find it with the speaker removed. He would probably end up ditching the van before getting tracked back to his chop shop.
For my whole life, the LE response to car thefts has been pathetic. As a teenager in the 80s, I learned when my car was stolen in broad daylight, while I was working at a summer job, that they don’t really do anything to try to deter or arrest car thieves. The police seemed like they couldn’t care less about it.
Part of our problem with lawlessness is that criminals don’t have any fear that committing crimes will cause them significant problems. It only seems to be getting worse.
Success in action. /s What does it take for people to recognize that what is currently being done doesn’t work and more of the same will yield even worse results?
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