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Car theft: Want your Honda Accord stolen? Take it to California
Modesto, California, city of 206,000 people, home to George Lucas Plaza, some of the country's worst air quality and the quaintly named newspaper of record, the Modesto Bee, tops the list once again as America's capital of car theft. The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released its 2007 numbers of the 10 worst cities for car thefts, and the area surrounding Modesto, including the entire county of Stanislaus, beat out other so-called Metropolitan Statistical Areas like Las Vegas/Paradise, Nev. (2nd); San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos, Calif. (3rd); Stockton, Calif. (4th); and San Francisco/Oakland/Fremont, Calif. (5th).
"The rate is determined by the number of vehicle theft offenses per 100,000 inhabitants using the 2007 census population estimates, the most current figures available," the NICB says. Curiously, it doesn't say how many cars were actually stolen in the cities it singles out for ignominy.
Odd that there is not one city east of the Mississippi on the NICB's top 10 list, or for that matter one city east of Texas.
The rest of the top 10 cities for car thefts:
6. Laredo, Tex.
7. Albuquerque, N.M.
8. Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, Ariz.
9. Yakima, Wash.
10. Tuscson, Ariz.
Filed under: North America, United States, Transportation, News
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gargamello May 4th 2008 12:33PM
How do people even steal modern cars? Even Honda Civics now come with special keys with an electronic code. And the ubiquitous alarms now.
These statistics must be inflated by trailer park on trailer park junker car wars.
WORKRSZ-R Aug 31st 2009 4:53PM
All the lazer cut keys and alarms do not matter, modern day car thieves will just pull your car up on to a flat bed trailer and off it goes. No one will say anything because they just assume the car is being reposesed or illegally parked. Tow trucks/trailers can be bought cheap on craigs list and pay them selves off in a hurry. Got lojack? that only works in areas where the local police have the equipment to track it. Besides by the time you realize its gone, make a report and send the police on there way to track the car it will already be stripped. High end cars that are wanted whole that are suspected of having lojack will get parked in an area for a couple days and watched. People who steal cars for a living are different than the punk kid that breaks a window to steal your CDplayer. I hope someone finds this informative.