DC on pace for 6,000 stolen cars this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Will police even bother to recover a stolen car if they know the location? I certainly would not go into the dangerous parts of DC by myself to attempt to recover a car.

The housing voucher program is bringing the dangerous parts of DC to your neighborhood. Nowhere is safe anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Not really. The air tag tells anyone with an Apple device that it is present if it has been following you for a couple hours.

Drill the speaker, and put it behind the dash and they’ll never find it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP do you have a citation? What were these numbers in previous years?

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This story has the numbers. Take the thefts up until the date of the article (March 20) and extrapolate it over the year and you get more than 6,000 stolen cars:

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-car-theft-uspp-officer-involved-shooting-northeast-delaneo-martin-porshia-mccullum-stolen-suv-speed-camera-investigation-increase-crime-metropolitan-police-department-crash

Keep in mind the actual number would be even higher, since "MPD says carjackings are not included in the auto theft data and have a separate set of numbers."

They interview the woman whose car was stolen in the recent case where the park police shot the car thief as he tried to drive away with one police officer in the car and another being dragged by it. Here's the victim:

McCullum is a mom of four, a full-time student and works two jobs. She’s hoping to just break even after insurance but is now left with no car, and frustration with the District.

"How is it that an innocent bystander can see my vehicle, but a camera cannot, but you have all of these speed cameras that are snapping our license and taking our money," McCullum said. "I don’t understand the concept.

"I’m just frustrated with everything, but I got to keep pressing forward because me being frustrated is not going to get me a vehicle."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Will police even bother to recover a stolen car if they know the location? I certainly would not go into the dangerous parts of DC by myself to attempt to recover a car.

That’s what led to the recent Park Police fatal shooting.

[Anonymous]

Cars that are stolen are usually found pretty fast. They’re not stealing them for parts. It’s kids and teens who want a car to drive around. Cars have gotten harder to steal, which is why young people suddenly started committing more carjackings. TikTok and the internet generally are now helping them figure out how to steal more models of car.

The answer will probably be some sort of Face ID for drivers, with an emergency override that takes a photo and alerts police. The problem with that is maybe they would just force people to drive them around, but ultimately I don’t think that’s what they want.

Ultimately there’s probably no way to fix the problem except to intervene way, way more aggressively when kids are younger to get them on a better path.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cars that are stolen are usually found pretty fast. They’re not stealing them for parts. It’s kids and teens who want a car to drive around. Cars have gotten harder to steal, which is why young people suddenly started committing more carjackings. TikTok and the internet generally are now helping them figure out how to steal more models of car.

The answer will probably be some sort of Face ID for drivers, with an emergency override that takes a photo and alerts police. The problem with that is maybe they would just force people to drive them around, but ultimately I don’t think that’s what they want.

Ultimately there’s probably no way to fix the problem except to intervene way, way more aggressively when kids are younger to get them on a better path.

The cars are stolen with the purpose of committing other crimes. Then they are dumped. They don’t need to steal your car to steal the high value and marketable parts like airbags, wheels and catalytic converter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do you have a citation? What were these numbers in previous years?

/;
This story has the numbers. Take the thefts up until the date of the article (March 20) and extrapolate it over the year and you get more than 6,000 stolen cars:

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-car-theft-uspp-officer-involved-shooting-northeast-delaneo-martin-porshia-mccullum-stolen-suv-speed-camera-investigation-increase-crime-metropolitan-police-department-crash

Keep in mind the actual number would be even higher, since "MPD says carjackings are not included in the auto theft data and have a separate set of numbers."

They interview the woman whose car was stolen in the recent case where the park police shot the car thief as he tried to drive away with one police officer in the car and another being dragged by it. Here's the victim:

McCullum is a mom of four, a full-time student and works two jobs. She’s hoping to just break even after insurance but is now left with no car, and frustration with the District.

"How is it that an innocent bystander can see my vehicle, but a camera cannot, but you have all of these speed cameras that are snapping our license and taking our money," McCullum said. "I don’t understand the concept.

"I’m just frustrated with everything, but I got to keep pressing forward because me being frustrated is not going to get me a vehicle."

It was over 1,500 car thefts through the first quarter. So over 6,000 for the year. Crime usually picks up during summer months so this is not a good start to the year at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars that are stolen are usually found pretty fast. They’re not stealing them for parts. It’s kids and teens who want a car to drive around. Cars have gotten harder to steal, which is why young people suddenly started committing more carjackings. TikTok and the internet generally are now helping them figure out how to steal more models of car.

The answer will probably be some sort of Face ID for drivers, with an emergency override that takes a photo and alerts police. The problem with that is maybe they would just force people to drive them around, but ultimately I don’t think that’s what they want.

Ultimately there’s probably no way to fix the problem except to intervene way, way more aggressively when kids are younger to get them on a better path.

The cars are stolen with the purpose of committing other crimes. Then they are dumped. They don’t need to steal your car to steal the high value and marketable parts like airbags, wheels and catalytic converter.

Perhaps the DC government could provide easily accessible cars for these victims of society?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cars that are stolen are usually found pretty fast. They’re not stealing them for parts. It’s kids and teens who want a car to drive around. Cars have gotten harder to steal, which is why young people suddenly started committing more carjackings. TikTok and the internet generally are now helping them figure out how to steal more models of car.

The answer will probably be some sort of Face ID for drivers, with an emergency override that takes a photo and alerts police. The problem with that is maybe they would just force people to drive them around, but ultimately I don’t think that’s what they want.

Ultimately there’s probably no way to fix the problem except to intervene way, way more aggressively when kids are younger to get them on a better path.

Since you’re so laid back about this, please come back and post when it happens to you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars that are stolen are usually found pretty fast. They’re not stealing them for parts. It’s kids and teens who want a car to drive around. Cars have gotten harder to steal, which is why young people suddenly started committing more carjackings. TikTok and the internet generally are now helping them figure out how to steal more models of car.

The answer will probably be some sort of Face ID for drivers, with an emergency override that takes a photo and alerts police. The problem with that is maybe they would just force people to drive them around, but ultimately I don’t think that’s what they want.

Ultimately there’s probably no way to fix the problem except to intervene way, way more aggressively when kids are younger to get them on a better path.

The cars are stolen with the purpose of committing other crimes. Then they are dumped. They don’t need to steal your car to steal the high value and marketable parts like airbags, wheels and catalytic converter.

Perhaps the DC government could provide easily accessible cars for these victims of society?

Surprises me that they don’t specifically target the ZipCars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Not really. The air tag tells anyone with an Apple device that it is present if it has been following you for a couple hours.

Drill the speaker, and put it behind the dash and they’ll never find it

Yea, I don’t really think most people are going to go out of their way to find it. Most of these cars are joyride/crime spree then dumped. If it’s not somewhere they can easily access, they’re probably going to cut their losses and ditch the car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP do you have a citation? What were these numbers in previous years?

/;
This story has the numbers. Take the thefts up until the date of the article (March 20) and extrapolate it over the year and you get more than 6,000 stolen cars:

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-car-theft-uspp-officer-involved-shooting-northeast-delaneo-martin-porshia-mccullum-stolen-suv-speed-camera-investigation-increase-crime-metropolitan-police-department-crash

Keep in mind the actual number would be even higher, since "MPD says carjackings are not included in the auto theft data and have a separate set of numbers."

They interview the woman whose car was stolen in the recent case where the park police shot the car thief as he tried to drive away with one police officer in the car and another being dragged by it. Here's the victim:

McCullum is a mom of four, a full-time student and works two jobs. She’s hoping to just break even after insurance but is now left with no car, and frustration with the District.

"How is it that an innocent bystander can see my vehicle, but a camera cannot, but you have all of these speed cameras that are snapping our license and taking our money," McCullum said. "I don’t understand the concept.

"I’m just frustrated with everything, but I got to keep pressing forward because me being frustrated is not going to get me a vehicle."

This is correct but not what you think. Carjacking is considered a violent crime but car theft is not. As a result, DC does everything it can to reclassify what most people would understand to be carjackings as auto theft. For example, every one of the stories you hear about where a car gets bumped and then when the people get out to look at the damage the car is forcibly taken is classified as theft and not carjacking, even if force or the threat of force is being used. This helps to keep down the violent crime stats in the city which is why there is no point in paying attention to any stat except the most important one, homicides. It is a lot harder to juke homicides than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Invest in a $25 air tag. Well worth the money if it gets your car back.

Not really. The air tag tells anyone with an Apple device that it is present if it has been following you for a couple hours.

Drill the speaker, and put it behind the dash and they’ll never find it

Yea, I don’t really think most people are going to go out of their way to find it. Most of these cars are joyride/crime spree then dumped. If it’s not somewhere they can easily access, they’re probably going to cut their losses and ditch the car.

Or you can just use Tile, which does not notify people being tracked like AirTags do.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to Charles Allen! His policies on restorative justice and rehabilitating youth offenders are getting more effective every day!!!

[Anonymous]

Statehood now! Clearly they've demonstrated they are perfectly capable of running basic civics.