Carjackings exploded nationwide between 2020 and 2022 but fell the last two years. Data from cities and states that publish it shows the plunge is continuing even faster through around midyear this year.
https://jasher.substack.com/p/carjackings-continue-to-fall-a-lot
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Wtf is going on in Houston
Before anyone starts making this political: Plunging started in the previous administration
Oh, maybe the insurance companies will lower rates a bit now. /s
Well that’s pretty clearly because of that Elantra situation where you could start the car with a USB type A and turning it. But now all those cars have had security updates… Or have been totalled.
Ok but what city is “Montgomery County”
More to the point, they’ve been plummeting for the last 2.5 years.
Electronics are to cheap and common now?
2020-2022 was the tiktok trend of stealing Hyundai and Kia cars. They spread videos of how to pop off the key slot with a USB and then turn the ignition manually, which shouldn’t be possible but Hyundais and kias didn’t have immobilizers, which are standard on almost all other cars. So there was nothing to stop someone from manually turning the ignition if the key slot had been somehow bypassed. It created such a rampant car theft spree that in many cities, car insurance companies refused to insure kias and Hyundai’s, and some cities even sued kia and Hyundai over the fiasco. I would guess that this massive drop in thefts is mostly a result of recalls to address the issue, or people just getting rid of the cars being targeted.
I’ll dig up the original article if people are interested, but I read a couple months ago car jackings are almost universally done by kids. It’s a federal crime with like a 20 year mandatory minimum for adults, and no practical monetary benefit, so it’s almost exclusively done by dumbass teenagers. I think the article was about DC (?) grappling with the desire to have a fair juvenile justice system while also recognizing its super bad and maybe they shouldn’t just essentially let kids off with a warning for it. Sad and interesting
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/
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Causation, used car index combined with inventory levels.
I wonder if more and more cars auto locking doors when you move is having an impact
Any correlation to immigration? We can get a good story going.