Unlocked Vehicles Making Easy Targets for Burglars Stealing Electronics
Police say 91 percent of the vehicle break-ins on record this year are cases in which the vehicle's owner didn't lock the doors.
More than 100 Plainfield residents have had their vehicles burglarized since January, Plainfield Police Chief John Konopek said Tuesday. That, however, is not the shocking part. What's harder to believe is 94 of the 103 victims may have invited the crime by leaving their vehicles unlocked, Konopek said. "I really find it surprising," he said. "What you're really doing is creating a crime of opportunity for somebody." And the number of victims may be even higher than reported. Police have recovered a large number of items from the 14 break-in arrests they've made this year that can't be linked to any police reports on file, Konopek said. In fact, the police department has so many unclaimed GPS devices and other electronic items that Konopek…
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