The so called crime wave is a myth

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I live near St. Louis and it’s awful. All you have to do is stop at a red light, or be pumping gas and your chances of getting jacked skyrocket. Scary place for sure
 
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It's insanely bad here too. We're fixing on average 8-10 Kia/Hyundais a week right now and I just got a customer with Tucson back in because their car got stolen for a second time. Got stolen about 3mo ago and now it's back in again for the same thing. It's ridiculous how easy they are to steal. Just seeing how they are doing it I could see it being done easily in less than 2min, probably less than 30 seconds actually. A lot of them are failed attempts so you'll see these cars driving around with broken rear door windows so you know someone either jacked them or tried to jack them. They need to fix their ignitions because the design was just idiotic.
 
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Rambro said:
I live near St. Louis and it’s awful. All you have to do is stop at a red light, or be pumping gas and your chances of getting jacked skyrocket. Scary place for sure
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I live an hour+ north of the sh*thole. I basically never go downtown anymore. Since 2020 I’ve been to 2 baseball games and the science center once. I’m averaging once a year downtown.

I’ll leave my car running where I live. If I go downtown, I drive my sh*tbox and I’m locked and loaded.
 
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I can leave my car running and unlocked in my neighborhood and my city for the most part as Sumner is a small old school type of town, but every city around us is getting more and more dangerous by the day. I work in Kent and you can leave anything out that isn't bolted down. Had someone set two Enterprise cars in our lot on fire trying to steal gas, totalling a Ford Edge, and then two weeks ago Sunday morning we got broken into and they stole 3 of our new SnapOn scanners, a laptop, and multiple customer's keys, but luckily no cars were touched. That same weekend someone drove a truck into the front doors of the Napa we buy from across the street and stole a bunch of their stuff, and a number of other shops got hit as well. It's freakin ridiculous.
 
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Ur shit would be doing donuts in the local housing project here while the Police are chasing him.....lol

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LoL is it really that bad where you guys are at?
I leave my windows down and car running when I go in the post office.
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So, before 2020, I never knew anyone that had a car stolen. Last year, one of my friend's had his SRT Grand Cherokee stolen, and my dad has his 2001 Dodge Ram 3500 stolen.

The Grand Cherokee was recovered, my friend told me they made some kind of cable that they plugged into the harness near the rear hatch that allowed them to bypass the keyless key fobs and start the car and drive off.

Both were stolen at night, parked in the normal residential locations. My dad's truck was never recovered.

I constantly see people on Next Door talk about cars being stolen from the local mall. In all cases, including my friend and dad's, the police did not really seem to care. On Next Door people say that the real police tell them to talk to mall security about their stolen car.

Catalytic converter theft here is non-stop too. This really spun up post 2020 as well.
 
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Our scrap guy picked up on Saturday and wondered what all of the pipes with the steel cables on them were. They were the theft proof catalytic convertor set-ups that a local company put on all of their box trucks. Didn't work.
 
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Luckily converter thefts seem to have gone down some after Washington passed the law other states are passing, but it's still a common thing.

Had a customer with an 08 Ram diesel get the cat stolen and it went through insurance. Ended up being $17k in total to replace the oxidation catalyst or downpipe, center cat, DPF, and then all of the damaged pipes and related components. About 6mo later it happened again but prices had gone uso since then so it was over $20k the second time and we suggested it get totalled, and luckily they did, because there were signs of ECU damage from shorted wiring that was cut. Insurance wanted to go with aftermarket parts initially but soon realized you just can't. The only aftermarket part that will work is the oxidation catalyst that Magnaflow makes.
 
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bglf83 said:
So, before 2020, I never knew anyone that had a car stolen. Last year, one of my friend's had his SRT Grand Cherokee stolen, and my dad has his 2001 Dodge Ram 3500 stolen.

The Grand Cherokee was recovered, my friend told me they made some kind of cable that they plugged into the harness near the rear hatch that allowed them to bypass the keyless key fobs and start the car and drive off.

Both were stolen at night, parked in the normal residential locations. My dad's truck was never recovered.

I constantly see people on Next Door talk about cars being stolen from the local mall. In all cases, including my friend and dad's, the police did not really seem to care. On Next Door people say that the real police tell them to talk to mall security about their stolen car.

Catalytic converter theft here is non-stop too. This really spun up post 2020 as well.
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Was this in houston? My buddy had his white SRT Cherokee stolen around midtown, they ghost keyed that shit.
 
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Interesting about hacking a jeep through a harness at the back of the car

A friend is stationed in New Orleans and they average a car stolen every hour or something crazy like that. If they’re 15k each that’s over 10 million bucks
 
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DSG2003Mach1 said:
Interesting about hacking a jeep through a harness at the back of the car

A friend is stationed in New Orleans and they average a car stolen every hour or something crazy like that. If they’re 15k each that’s over 10 million bucks
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I can confirm. I heard on the news Friday that we had over 600 cars stolen since the beginning of the year.
 
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Was this in houston? My buddy had his white SRT Cherokee stolen around midtown, they ghost keyed that shit.
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My friend with the SRT Cherokee was Plano TX.

I did not even follow up with how the impound lot did not update the info to show it was no longer marked as stolen and 5 cops pulled him over guns drawn on the way home.
 

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