Keyless cars now make up half of all vehicles stolen despite being 1 per cent of cars on the road. Thieves use new technology to target owners with widely available signal relay devices that tricks the car into thinking the correct key is present by amplifying its signal. Once thieves gain access to the vehicle, it […]
Illinois, Washington State Report Largest Increases in Thefts Between 2021 and 2022 DES PLAINES, IL, March 8, 2023 — Law enforcement agencies and communities across the United States continue to be plagued by record and near-record levels of vehicular crime as monthly theft totals nationwide consistently exceeded 75,000 in 2022. According to new analysis conducted by
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Car thefts started rising last summer in Baltimore, Cleveland, and other cities across the country. In fact, from December 2021 to December 2022, reported thefts[1] rose 50 percent in Atlanta and El Paso, Texas. They doubled in Chicago. They tripled in Dayton, Ohio. Some cities have blamed the auto manufacturers Kia and Hyundai for the rising thefts. Hyundai
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