43 Vehicle Thefts in DC in First 3 Days of 2024

[Anonymous]

It must be very dependent on the make of the car right? Mine has internal tracking that can’t be turned off so if anyone stole it I would know exactly where they are. It also doesn’t have a key but I guess they could drive it until the first time they parked it.
I would think the insurance companies would be tracking where the risk is.

[Anonymous]

This is not a sustainable way to live

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It must be very dependent on the make of the car right? Mine has internal tracking that can’t be turned off so if anyone stole it I would know exactly where they are. It also doesn’t have a key but I guess they could drive it until the first time they parked it.
I would think the insurance companies would be tracking where the risk is.

DC MPD has not always been helpful in retrieving cars in your scenario. No idea re: NoVA and MD. There have been news stories about DC where a woman was tracking her car on a device in front of MPD, who refused to act.

What would be your plan to retrieve the car, PP?

[Anonymous]

Detroit humbly relinquishes it’s crime capital crown to DC: “May the District wear it proudly.”

[Anonymous]

I would not want to find myself in that situation outside Union Station, especially if with my kids or elderly parents. Not just re: lost luggage, belongings, but due to risk. What is the solution, to fly out of DCA? Board Amtrak elsewhere?

It is extraordinary to me that this is tolerated by the feds who control the property.

Will Union Station become a new place it's hard to get a car/rideshare, like EoT river?

[Anonymous]

Cars have been jacked/stolen at gunpoint from the car rental in Union Station, not a solution there.

I still see cabs lined up but for how long if this continues?

Was not like that in the 90s, I worked for the Senate and Union Station was not having frequent carjackings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Detroit humbly relinquishes it’s crime capital crown to DC: “May the District wear it proudly.”

DC car owners:

“May the odds ever be in your favor.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It must be very dependent on the make of the car right? Mine has internal tracking that can’t be turned off so if anyone stole it I would know exactly where they are. It also doesn’t have a key but I guess they could drive it until the first time they parked it.
I would think the insurance companies would be tracking where the risk is.

1) The DC police are prohibited from vehicle pursuits. They would not help you retrieve your stolen car anyway. Even if you told them where the thieves were holding the car, they will not help.

2) Insurance companies find it much easier to simply write off your car, and pay you a small sum of money, as allowed by your policy. Vehicle collisions are a far bigger cost to insurance companies, so they ignore vehicle theft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
1) The DC police are prohibited from vehicle pursuits. They would not help you retrieve your stolen car anyway. Even if you told them where the thieves were holding the car, they will not help.

BUT... when the car is parked/stationary on the tracker, it's no longer a pursuit. MPD no longer has an excuse to not act then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1) The DC police are prohibited from vehicle pursuits. They would not help you retrieve your stolen car anyway. Even if you told them where the thieves were holding the car, they will not help.

BUT... when the car is parked/stationary on the tracker, it's no longer a pursuit. MPD no longer has an excuse to not act then.

Yeah good luck with that. You must be new to DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cars have been jacked/stolen at gunpoint from the car rental in Union Station, not a solution there.

I still see cabs lined up but for how long if this continues?

Was not like that in the 90s, I worked for the Senate and Union Station was not having frequent carjackings.

Same. I lived on the hill until 2002 and Union station at night was kinda sketchy, but nothing like it is now.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was 7,000 car break ins, not thefts

[Anonymous]

wait so do the theft numbers include carjackings? Imo if they took the key from someone with the car it should be a different (more dangerous) category.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cars have been jacked/stolen at gunpoint from the car rental in Union Station, not a solution there.

I still see cabs lined up but for how long if this continues?

Was not like that in the 90s, I worked for the Senate and Union Station was not having frequent carjackings.

Same. I lived on the hill until 2002 and Union station at night was kinda sketchy, but nothing like it is now.

Well not knowing anything about the particular area, carjackings are way way way up all over and it’s because cars are much harder to steal. The kids carjacking would steal an occupied car instead, but they can’t because of anti-theft technology.

[Anonymous]

Send in the National Guard