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Which countries have a significantly low car theft rate? In the US: >...in 2017. In 2018, 748,841 vehicles were stolen, down 3.1 percent from 772,943 vehicles

• RandallBrown 7y ago
  Stealing the whole car vs. stealing objects inside the car is completely different. Do you have numbers for that?
  • hermitdev 7y ago
    I dont have stats, but in the 00's, my brother who lived in west Seattle at the time, had his SUV broken into 3 times in a short period. They ignored the stock stereo, hundreds of CDs, expensive set of golf clubs. Besides smashing a window, what was the damage? They stole his headlights. This was back when xenon headlights were novel. From what I recall, the police told him was something along the lines of "we'll never recover the parts and we'll likely never catch the crooks". Basically, they cant fulfill their job, and my brother was told to get ready for the insurance rate hike.
    • 2rsf 7y ago
      > This was back when xenon headlights were novel they are still expensive, in Sweden BMW steering wheels are a hit in the last few years
  • opo 7y ago
    I am not sure your point. The original argument made by the parent was that "In other nations with a better social system this worked quite well however." Is your hypothesis that these better social systems lead to comparable rates of major crime but significantly lower rates of petty crime? On the face of it that seems unlikely, but I'd be interested in any evidence you have.
    • RandallBrown 7y ago
      I don't have any evidence, but to my intuition it makes a lot of sense. The amount of time, effort, and risk to sell a stolen car seems much higher than the amount of effort to sell the stuff you find in the back seat of a car. Since most people resorting to crime for money are pretty desperate, I would imagine they would choose the easier, faster, and safer method. I couldn't find any numbers to back this up though, most crime statistics I saw focused on violent crime.