Imagine waking up one morning and going through your daily routine: shower, get dressed, coffee, grab your car keys—but you discover your car isn’t where you parked it the night before. All that’s left behind is an empty space and a sinking feeling in your gut that you won’t see your car again.
While motor vehicle thefts in 2019 decreased 4% compared to 2018, there were still an estimated 721,885 motor vehicle thefts in 2019, according to the FBI’s 2019 uniform crime reports. That accounts for a rate of almost 220 thefts for every 100,000 people.