For our Seattle, Washington Tesla owners who I guess feel their car is maybe immune to break-ins or being stolen here's some info on the area. "In the past three years, the Seattle Police Department has received, more than 23,000 reports of break-ins to parked cars – that’s about 21 car prowls a day." No idea what the date of this article is so no idea how current the statistics are.
https://www.seattlepi.com/lists/sli...ods-have-the-most-car-66946/photo-4955555.php I hate having to advance throught 65 frames to see all the totals. They saved the neighborhoods with higher break-in numbers for the end.
The following Seattle Gov/Police site shows police reports and the type of crimes within 12 hours of report. The 23,000 total over 3 years has to be accounted for under some other category other than Motor Vehicle Theft in these reports probably because they are classified as a lesser crime than auto theft due to the monetary loss.
Online Crime Maps - Police | seattle.gov
From looking at the "911 Map" link, it shows the last 24 hours of police reports on a map and it looks like in Seattle there are more stolen cars (guess why take the time to break in a car when you can just steal the whole vehicle) than car break-ins, but I see a number of those too within the last 24 hours. The "SPD Records Map" is archived over weeks and months is pretty interesting.
And there's these recent articles on car break-ins. This from Seattle Q13Fox from June 26, 2018:
Victims of car break-ins in Wallingford frustrated over lack of police response Sounds like the neighborhood isn't getting any police responding to car break-ins. Interestingly a few of these cars had alarms going off but more cars were still hit in the area with the alarms in earshot. Oh and the neighbors affected bring up homeless and druggies as the potential source. Sounds familiar to SF Bay Area break-ins. Hmm.
This from another neighborhood from just Oct. 17, 2018:
West Seattle Crime Watch: Car break-in at Lincoln Park which apparently made the news again just Nov. 12, 2018:
West Seattle Crime Watch: Lincoln Park car break-ins
Interesting Reddit thread from Seattle, Washington car owners who have faced break-ins and what they did about it or commented on it:
Car break-ins : SeattleWA Includes one who decided to leave his car unlocked--something a few people here have suggested. BTW doubt all these car break-ins are Teslas.
Point of this post is don't think you are immune to having your car broken into. Wonder how many arrests Seattle PD makes for break-ins, if the majority of them are prosecuted and where they house all those criminals found guilty.