Police: Unlocked Cars Make Easy Targets for Thieves
Two attempted car thefts reported in North Caldwell Wednesday.
Residents are being reminded to keep their cars locked at night after two attempted thefts were reported in the borough Wednesday, officials said.
Police believe thieves in both incidents rummaged through the glove compartment looking for a valet key.
A resident of Rosemont Court reported at 8 a.m. that someone had gone through her 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, which had been left unlocked in the driveway. She told police she found the glove box open and items missing.
Police later found the registration and owner's manual for the vehicle discarded several hundred feet away at the intersection of Hamilton Drive East.
At 8:50 a.m. Wednesday, a resident of Squire Hill Road reported items missing from the glove compartment of a 2010 Land Rover, which had been left unlocked overnight. The registration, owner’s manual and insurance card were discovered on Tanglewood Road.
“People are leaving their cars unlocked or they are leaving them unlocked and running in their driveways,” North Caldwell Chief Mark Deuer said. “There’s this group of people out there trying to take them.”
Deuer added, “Besides locking your cars, if you are up early in the morning, just be on the lookout for suspicious vehicles and report them to police.”
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Cj
5:47 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
How many times do you have to tell these people. They are not children. They got what they deserved. Its getting old now
Michael
9:08 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
why tell us about unlocked doors? the police spend more time talking to hack reporters than arresting crooks. why not tell thieves if you steal you will be locked up!?! better yet catch them and beat the crap out of them like the good ol days, seemed to work, till the libs past laws making it illegal to put someone in jail.
Mike Bolger
12:50 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
It's called "target hardening", and it's part of police work: educate the public to make their property less accessible to criminals, thus making the criminals move on to easier pickings. Harden enough targets and you've reduced crime townwide. Patrolling alone doesn't get it done- crime prevention requires a multi-faceted response.
Michael
3:34 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Yes I know the process, that is why I am against it. Reduce the freedoms of those that would not commit a crime so that they are hold up in thier houses and can't move. while the lunatics find and invent new ways to get what they want, its called reality, and when they end the stupidity of "target hardening" and start putting targets on the heads of the scum, we can all go outside and play again.
Michael
3:34 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
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Michael
3:34 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
"Target hardening" is a tool that was developed out of desperation for not enforcing laws, as you eluded to, it is designed to move the element down the road, kick the can down the road, push it off on someone else, bla bla bla you name it, it's still libs making laws that prevent cops from getting rid of the cancer in society. It's like your rectum having cancer and the doctor saying don't worry, stop eating, plug your butt and maybe the cancer will move to your lungs, or like most libs, to their brains.
Mike Bolger
7:32 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Right Michael- tell that to the guy whose BMW was stolen Friday because he left it running while he went into 7-11. I don't know what laws you are referring to, but common sense should be enough to tell you that dangling the opportunity carelessly will enable crime; removing opportunity will prevent it. Kick it down enough roads and its will go out of sight.
...and a colonoscopy wouldn't hurt either.
Michael
7:49 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013
The guy with the BMW was on someones property that was not his own, so no loved loss on that, it wasn't his property and so precautions should have been taken since the property owner could have been held liable if something worse had happened, and frankly I would not be surprised if it wasn't planned, (probably lost his business thanks to Obama and couldn't make the payments anymore), and as we know about kicking the can down the road, the earth is round so the can will eventually come back, now if you get rid of the can instead of kicking it down the road, you don't have to worry about it coming back.