byroon@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 10 months agoThere Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’novaramedia.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1219arrow-down13
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minus-squarecasmael@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·10 months agoThere’s pretty large evidence of a car theft epidemic tho tbh
minus-squareSbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·10 months agoThat’d be personal theft. The police have already signaled they couldn’t give less of a shit about that.
minus-squarekool_newt@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoThis is for Hyundais an Kias mostly tho right? And it’s due to them refusing to fix a major flaw making theft trivially easy. Something like that, here’s a link I’m too lazy to read but looks related. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/hyundais-kias-are-easy-targets-amid-boom-in-vehicle-thefts
minus-squareGreatAlbatross@feddit.ukMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoAnd it’s not in the UK, as the cars were sold with immobilisers here.
minus-squarebyroon@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoIs there? Genuinely asking as I’ve not heard of that
minus-squarecasmael@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months agoYeah it’s been fairly bad in north London for the past couple of years. Seems to have been particularly bad these last few months tbh.
There’s pretty large evidence of a car theft epidemic tho tbh
That’d be personal theft. The police have already signaled they couldn’t give less of a shit about that.
This is for Hyundais an Kias mostly tho right? And it’s due to them refusing to fix a major flaw making theft trivially easy. Something like that, here’s a link I’m too lazy to read but looks related.
https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/hyundais-kias-are-easy-targets-amid-boom-in-vehicle-thefts
And it’s not in the UK, as the cars were sold with immobilisers here.
Ah
Is there? Genuinely asking as I’ve not heard of that
Yeah it’s been fairly bad in north London for the past couple of years. Seems to have been particularly bad these last few months tbh.