A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves

Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by rconti on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:52PM (#12433213)

Between 1993 and 2012, Property Crime has fallen from a rate of 4740 to 2859 per 100,000 inhabitants in the US. 2012's rate was 60% of 1993's rate. Burglary from 1100 to 670 (61%) Larceny from 3034 to 1959 (65%).

Compared to those dramatic declines (and yes, 1993 was a pretty bad year for crime in the US, but that's the FBI's stats), motor vehicle theft has fallen off a cliff.

In 1993 there were 606 per 100,000 inhabitants. in 2012 there were 230. The new number is 38% of the old number.

I hear about fairly advanced car thefts in the UK all the time (RFID cloning, etc), but it's a problem that virtually doesn't exist anymore in the US in the eyes of car enthusiasts. (Yes, 20 year old Honda Accord parked in the ghetto is still a target. But modern vehicles in relatively good areas are simply not something we worry about anymore).

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by Spooky23 on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:44PM (#12433366)

In olden times, stealing a car was trivial. Ditto radios, which had resale value.

Now it's parts. Wheels, airbags, bumpers, etc.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by hnal943 on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @10:17AM (#12436152)

It's also to provide untraceable vehicles for other crimes. My city has a huge carjacking problem right now, and most of them are used as get away vehicles in other crimes.

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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by gd2 on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:30PM (#12433485)

But we see a lot of smash the window and grab whatever bags are in the car in San Francisco.

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