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> theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods You forgot to add "in the USA" (or some other country). Where I live (Japan), AFAIK, t
by greggman3 6y ago
> theft from parked cars is the number one problem in most neighborhoods
You forgot to add "in the USA" (or some other country). Where I live (Japan), AFAIK, theft from cars is practically non-existent. Leaving things in your car visible is not an issue. I don't think I've ever seen a pile of glass from a car window busted the entire time I've spent here (14 yrs) where as in SF, several times, I'd walk by Dolores Park or down Folsom and see a pile of glass every 3rd car space.
Once you get used to it living without such theft it's hard not to see places that have lots of theft from car issues as more 3rd world like than 1st. And it's sad that people get so used to it they take it as normal. I used to. In California had my car broken into 5 times and even stolen once.
- kenhwang 6y agoI've lived all over California and it pretty much never happens outside of SF. Smashed car windows and poop on sidewalks are kinda still uniquely SF things, not general California things. Other places with rampant car theft tends to have more elegant methods of getting into cars that doesn't involve the noise of smashing a window. Like a slim jim.
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- jojobas 6y agoYou're talking about an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society, which are in short supply these days.
- speedgoose 6y agoKicking out all the immigrants of San Francisco and keeping only the native Americans Ohlone may fix the car thefts issue indeed. Because that would be very few cars. About ethnicities and theft, correlation does not imply causation.
- buran77 6y agoConsider that crime might be higher in areas with a concentration of immigrants simply because those areas intrinsically offer good opportunities for both immigrants and criminals. Good jobs/pay for people (immigrants included) also means better stuff that criminals can steal.
- ehnto 6y agoImagine it's different even within the US. In the little Australian town I grew up in, we just leave the keys in the car. Who knows when someone might need it? In the city I live in now I lock it, and have had the whole thing stolen before right out the front of my house while I was away.
- namdnay 6y agoWhere you live theft in general is pretty much nonexistent (or at least, blue collar theft is). So I’m not sure it’s specific to cars
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoDraw a line between Bangor and San Diego and property crime in the US basically increases along it. There are places in the US that are basically as safe as Japan with regard to property crime. The only car thefts in my small city (~40k) this year were from a 14yo and a 9yo duo that were taking stuff people left running, driving a few blocks over and then going over it for anything of value.