{"id":3467,"date":"2005-08-11T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/11\/seattle-car-theft-statistics\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T00:01:13","slug":"seattle-car-theft-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/08\/11\/seattle-car-theft-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Car Theft Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7826,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2002433109_cartheft11m.html?syndication=rss&amp;source=localnews.xml&amp;items=16&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2002433109_cartheft11m.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2002433109_cartheft11m.html?syndication=rss&amp;source=localnews.xml&amp;items=16\" title=\"Seattle Times: Car thieves put on notice\">Scary auto theft statistics for the Seattle area<\/a> from a Seattle Times article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>King County car thefts last year: &#8220;&#8230;9,253 in Seattle and 3,624 in the rest of the county.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;On average, a car is stolen every 12 minutes in Washington state. That&#8217;s an average of about 122 cars per day, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seattle-King County auto thefts represented more than a quarter of the 43,070 cars stolen last year in the state. By comparison, there were 4,825 auto thefts in Snohomish County last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;A car thief in Washington has about a 1-in-16 chance of being arrested for each car stolen, according to data provided by the prosecutor. And, because of sentencing guidelines, a car thief will face a year or more behind bars only after the seventh offense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#8220;State sentencing guidelines call for zero to 60 days in jail for a first offense. Many car thieves are given parole or relatively short sentences for initial offenses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the article, the King County Sherrif&#8217;s Office is exploring ways to combat this, but have a way to go and little to no budget for it. Pretty eyebrow-raising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On average, a car is stolen every 12 minutes in Washington state. That&#8217;s an average of about 122 cars per day, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}