Kia and Hyundi are obviously right; theft rates are much lower in most other regions of this country and in other countries. These cities go easy on crime the

Kia and Hyundi are obviously right; theft rates are much lower in most other regions of this country and in other countries. These cities go easy on crime then blame literally anybody and anything else when it doesn't go as planned. It wasn't always like this, it was made like this by idealistic nonsense about solving crime by having more compassion for criminals and locking up / bolting down everything of value to protect the criminals from temptation. Does anybody truly believe that stronger locks on cars will make shithead delinquent teenagers stop committing crimes for thrills and find a harmless hobby? Even if you stop them from stealing cars they'll still get their thrills some other way, attacking random people in the street, raiding and smashing up storing, simply just carjacking people.. the list goes on. You can't use technical security measures to prevent all these crimes, even prisons can't stop crimes inside their walls. You need to sic police on the people who get their thrills by breaking the law and fucking with other people. And miss me with any poverty / systemic nonsense excuses for the criminals; the majority of these cars are being stolen for thrill rides, not for profit to pay rent. The criminals are antisocial assholes who think it's no-consequence fun to break the law. The only way to fix this is to use police and courts to ruin their fun and set an example for younger kids who will otherwise decide to emulate the criminal behavior they see others getting away with. So do Kia and Hyundai have some share of the blame? Sure, they foolishly believed these American cities are as civilized as the cities advertise themselves as being. They should have done some market research and discovered that so many American urban areas are poorly policed before they cheaped out on the locks. This was all out there for them to know already, they didn't have to learn the hard way. If they had done their research, American crime would have been somebody else's problem instead of egg on their own faces. But they didn't do their research, they lazily believed the advertising and assumed that America is serious about crime like South Korea. In South Korea if you steal cars you'll be thrown in prison for many years, get fed like shit and made to perform hard labor. America coddles criminals and thinks the solution to crime is to coddle them even more. The Americans who excuse this nonsense have more compassion for criminals than they do the victims of crime.