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That car theft number is blowing my mind. I would have easily guessed 10x that. Are there any aspects of the crime that make it less appealing? Electronic coun

• smallmancontrov 1y ago
  Consumer goods went on a 50 year deflation streak while health care, housing, and education pumped to the moon. That's its own problem, but it's hard to steal any of those three things.
• pjdesno 1y ago
  This paper argues that electronic locks played a large role: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41284-024-00452-2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41284-024-00452-2 I would bet that the pervasive use of electronic records has something to do with it, too. According to this 1979 report from the Nat'l Assoc. of Attorneys General, in the 70s there were a lot of paths to retitling a stolen vehicle back then, which along with the the rise of chop shops and easier export of stolen cars, supported a large stolen-car economy: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/59904NCJRS.pdf https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/59904NCJRS.pdf