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The study said commercial burglaries and robberies have become more prevalent in urban counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a champion of Proposition 47 who has repeatedly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-theft-8dec92007049f1fa41f9e280882bcef6\">argued California already has tools\u003c/a> to go after criminals sufficiently, rejected calls to reform the measure in January. He instead urged lawmakers to bolster existing laws and go after motor vehicle thefts and resellers of stolen merchandise. California is also \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-smash-grab-robberies-grants-police-0172b4e64ed9d748a6fced4316f4121d\">spending $267 million\u003c/a> to help dozens of local law enforcement agencies increase patrols, buy surveillance equipment and conduct other activities to crack down on retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. 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The proposition modified but did not eliminate sentencing for many drug and nonviolent property crimes, including thefts under $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funding saved from having fewer people in jails and prisons, totaling $113 million this fiscal year, has gone to local programs to fight recidivism with some successes, state officials and advocates said. But the proposition has made it harder to prosecute shoplifters and enabled brazen crime rings, law enforcement officials said. An effort to reform the measure failed in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975692,news_11979533,news_10743111\"]Following Newsom’s directions, Democratic leaders in both chambers at the Capitol also have shut down calls to repeal the measure. Last month, the state’s new Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, with bipartisan support, introduced a package of legislation that would target auto thefts and large-scale resell schemes and expand diversion programs such as drug courts and treatment services. Under the proposal, online marketplaces would also be required to crack down on users reselling stolen goods on their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe that this state needs to touch Prop. 47 to be able to help make our communities safer, full stop,” McGuire said during a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47\">who has said he also doesn’t want to repeal Proposition 47\u003c/a>, co-authored similar legislation aimed at repeat thieves and online resellers. 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Last month, the state’s new Senate President Pro Tempore Mike McGuire, with bipartisan support, introduced a package of legislation that would target auto thefts and large-scale resell schemes and expand diversion programs such as drug courts and treatment services. Under the proposal, online marketplaces would also be required to crack down on users reselling stolen goods on their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe that this state needs to touch Prop. 47 to be able to help make our communities safer, full stop,” McGuire said during a news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47\">who has said he also doesn’t want to repeal Proposition 47\u003c/a>, co-authored similar legislation aimed at repeat thieves and online resellers. It would allow law enforcement to “stack” the value of goods stolen from different victims to impose harsher penalties and arrest people for shoplifting using video footage or witness statements. The measure also would mandate online sellers to maintain records proving the merchandise wasn’t stolen and require some retail businesses to report stolen goods data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some Democratic lawmakers said those efforts won’t be enough to make a difference. Assemblymember James Ramos, who authored bipartisan legislation to increase penalties for repeat shoplifters, said many lawmakers want to see “the pendulum swing back to the middle.” The bill would require voters’ approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Prop. 47 needs to have some type of resetting. 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The groups are still collecting signatures to qualify for the November ballot before the April deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980483/california-lawmakers-look-for-balance-amid-solutions-to-stop-retail-theft","authors":["byline_news_11980483"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_25015","news_18502","news_30045"],"featImg":"news_11980490","label":"news"},"news_11980331":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980331","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980331","score":null,"sort":[1711054846000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sfpd-ups-reward-for-leads-on-unsolved-2016-double-homicide-to-200k","title":"SFPD Ups Reward to $200K for Leads on Unsolved 2016 Double Homicide","publishDate":1711054846,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SFPD Ups Reward to $200K for Leads on Unsolved 2016 Double Homicide | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department is offering $200,000 for information on a still-unsolved\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\"> double homicide\u003c/a> that happened in the city in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Elaine McCollum, 27, and Eddie “Tennessee” Tate, 51, were shot and killed on the night of Dec. 16, 2016, on the northwest corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District. Both were unhoused and were sleeping inside a wooden box on the street when they were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paulina Henderson, spokesperson, SFPD\"]‘The families want justice and oftentimes rewards motivate people to come forward with information that can lead to an arrest.’[/pullquote]Police are asking anyone with leads on the double homicide to contact SFPD’s homicide detail at 415-553-1145 or its tip line at 415-575-4444.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who provide information can choose to remain anonymous, according to Paulina Henderson, an SFPD spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if they were [living] on the street,” Evangelina Salazar, a long-time friend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\">told KQED in 2018\u003c/a>. “They just didn’t deserve to go that way. Somebody loves them. We love them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2019, police offered a $25,000 reward for any information that might lead to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in the case. Subsequently, in September 2022, they raised it to $100,000. Now, more than seven years after the two murders, the department is doubling that reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980336\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1494px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1494\" height=\"1644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED.png 1494w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-800x880.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-1020x1122.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-160x176.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-1396x1536.png 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1494px) 100vw, 1494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composite sketch is a Person of Interest in the killing of Lindsay Elaine McCollum and Eddie Wayne Tate. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFPD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the families are really motivated to find out what has happened and to have an arrest,” Henderson told KQED. “The families want justice, and oftentimes rewards motivate people to come forward with information that can lead to an arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCollum’s mother, Carrie McCollum, had also initially offered an additional $5,000 reward for information about her daughter’s death. She did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a forensic artist produced a sketch of a person of interest in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Elaine McCollum grew up in the Central Valley town of Patterson. McCollum struggled with heroin use and mental illness and had participated in a San Francisco rehabilitation program called Walden House. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\">Her mother previously told KQED\u003c/a> that her daughter loved animals, played piano and danced as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The SFPD is offering $200,000 for information in 2 unsolved murders that took place in San Francisco in 2016. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711060977,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":423},"headData":{"title":"SFPD Ups Reward to $200K for Leads on Unsolved 2016 Double Homicide | KQED","description":"The SFPD is offering $200,000 for information in 2 unsolved murders that took place in San Francisco in 2016. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SFPD Ups Reward to $200K for Leads on Unsolved 2016 Double Homicide","datePublished":"2024-03-21T21:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-21T22:42:57.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980331/sfpd-ups-reward-for-leads-on-unsolved-2016-double-homicide-to-200k","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department is offering $200,000 for information on a still-unsolved\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\"> double homicide\u003c/a> that happened in the city in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Elaine McCollum, 27, and Eddie “Tennessee” Tate, 51, were shot and killed on the night of Dec. 16, 2016, on the northwest corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District. Both were unhoused and were sleeping inside a wooden box on the street when they were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The families want justice and oftentimes rewards motivate people to come forward with information that can lead to an arrest.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Paulina Henderson, spokesperson, SFPD","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Police are asking anyone with leads on the double homicide to contact SFPD’s homicide detail at 415-553-1145 or its tip line at 415-575-4444.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who provide information can choose to remain anonymous, according to Paulina Henderson, an SFPD spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t matter if they were [living] on the street,” Evangelina Salazar, a long-time friend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\">told KQED in 2018\u003c/a>. “They just didn’t deserve to go that way. Somebody loves them. We love them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2019, police offered a $25,000 reward for any information that might lead to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in the case. Subsequently, in September 2022, they raised it to $100,000. Now, more than seven years after the two murders, the department is doubling that reward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980336\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1494px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1494\" height=\"1644\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED.png 1494w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-800x880.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-1020x1122.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-160x176.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240321-LINDSAY-McCollum-02-KQED-1396x1536.png 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1494px) 100vw, 1494px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A composite sketch is a Person of Interest in the killing of Lindsay Elaine McCollum and Eddie Wayne Tate. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFPD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the families are really motivated to find out what has happened and to have an arrest,” Henderson told KQED. “The families want justice, and oftentimes rewards motivate people to come forward with information that can lead to an arrest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCollum’s mother, Carrie McCollum, had also initially offered an additional $5,000 reward for information about her daughter’s death. She did not respond to KQED’s request for comment on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a forensic artist produced a sketch of a person of interest in the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Elaine McCollum grew up in the Central Valley town of Patterson. McCollum struggled with heroin use and mental illness and had participated in a San Francisco rehabilitation program called Walden House. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713590/remembering-lindsay-mccollum-two-years-after-her-still-unsolved-murder\">Her mother previously told KQED\u003c/a> that her daughter loved animals, played piano and danced as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980331/sfpd-ups-reward-for-leads-on-unsolved-2016-double-homicide-to-200k","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_1393","news_38","news_20331"],"featImg":"news_11980333","label":"news"},"news_11979891":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979891","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979891","score":null,"sort":[1710849627000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-mayor-says-crime-reduction-efforts-on-airports-hegenberger-corridor-are-working","title":"Crime-Reduction Efforts on Oakland's Hegenberger Corridor Showing 'Promising Results,' Mayor Thao Says","publishDate":1710849627,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Crime-Reduction Efforts on Oakland’s Hegenberger Corridor Showing ‘Promising Results,’ Mayor Thao Says | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Crime along East Oakland’s troubled Hegenberger corridor, which leads to the Oakland International Airport, has decreased since last year amid a greater presence of law enforcement and more collaboration with community groups, Mayor Sheng Thao announced on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing some promising results,” said Thao, flanked by law enforcement and business leaders at an event in front of the Oakland Airport Hilton hotel. “We are seeing that crimes — whether it’s burglaries, property crimes, homicides — all in this corridor, they are trending down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multipronged effort includes an increased police presence in the area, the deployment of “safety ambassadors,” and a private security team hired to patrol various businesses along the corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all comes in response to public pressure after years of rampant car break-ins, carjackings and other crimes that have plagued the corridor that connects the airport to the rest of the city. Crime along Hegenberger Road drew national attention in January when In-N-Out Burger \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/too-little-too-late-east-oaklanders-disappointed-in-n-out-is-closing\">announced\u003c/a> plans to close its only Oakland location, at the Hegenberger exit off Highway 880, citing crime concerns. The restaurant, set to close next week, will be the first location the chain has ever permanently shuttered in its 75-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/19/oakland-mayor-says-crime-reduction-efforts-on-airports-hegenberger-corridor-are-working/download-1-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11979892\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"a sign outside an In n' Out restaurant says it's closing\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-N-Out Burger on Oakport Road, near Hegenberger Road, in January announced it would close its doors (after March 24), citing crime and safety concerns in the area.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all know crime has caused significant impacts on a lot of our businesses, and specifically the tourism sector here in Oakland,” said Dhruv Patel, president of Ridgemont Hospitality, which owns multiple hotels near the airport. At the press conference, Patel said that things have been improving with the city’s focus on the neighborhood. “The increase in police, sheriff and CHP presence is welcomed by hoteliers, residents and tourists alike. The ambassador program will only continue to build on that and bolster our overall collective efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past several months, we have seen an overall improvement along the corridor,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police said property crimes in the area have gone down since mid-2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959799,news_11975161,news_11961919]“Currently, we have six foot-patrol officers and one sergeant dedicated to East Oakland,” said Angelica Mendoza, deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department. “Officers focus on enhancing security in shopping centers and gas stations within their respective areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all part of a $2 million effort to fund safety improvements across the Hegenberger corridor, Fruitvale neighborhood and downtown Oakland. At a press conference last month at the Holiday Inn & Suites on Hegenberger Road, law enforcement and community leaders also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/east-bay-crime-consortium-18667201.php\">announced\u003c/a> they would meet quarterly to coordinate strategies to reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974920/newsom-to-deploy-120-chp-officers-to-fight-crime-surge-in-oakland\">120 California Highway Patrol officers were deployed\u003c/a> to Oakland and elsewhere in Alameda County as part of a “surge operation” that resulted in scores of arrests and the recovery of hundreds of stolen vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CHP will continue to conduct unannounced surge operations alongside our law enforcement partner agencies in high-crime areas across the East Bay region,” said Don Goodbrand, CHP’s Golden Gate division commander. “Future searches will consist of 40 to 65 officers, in addition to the 72 that are currently assigned to the Oakland office for patrol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember Treva Reid, whose district includes the corridor, also highlighted the work of community safety ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety ambassador program was launched at a critical time here in East Oakland,” Reid said. “We all feel the weight of the public safety crisis. It has overwhelmed us in every corner of our city and throughout this region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city launched the program last year and contracted the nonprofit Black Cultural Zone to employ 35 ambassadors in the area. Similar community ambassador programs were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976748/oakland-mayors-announcement-of-3-5-million-public-safety-grant-disrupted-by-protesters-seeking-her-recall\">also launched last year\u003c/a> in Fruitvale and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have respectful, community-oriented policing if any of this is going to work,” said Greg Hodge, CEO of the nonprofit Brotherhood of Elders Network. “For years, the relationship with law enforcement in the Black community, shall I say, has not been good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “This is a moment for us to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The multipronged effort to increase police presence and work with community leaders comes in response to years of frequent car break-ins and other crimes along the main road leading to Oakland International Airport.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710871896,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":729},"headData":{"title":"Crime-Reduction Efforts on Oakland's Hegenberger Corridor Showing 'Promising Results,' Mayor Thao Says | KQED","description":"The multipronged effort to increase police presence and work with community leaders comes in response to years of frequent car break-ins and other crimes along the main road leading to Oakland International Airport.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Crime-Reduction Efforts on Oakland's Hegenberger Corridor Showing 'Promising Results,' Mayor Thao Says","datePublished":"2024-03-19T12:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-19T18:11:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979891/oakland-mayor-says-crime-reduction-efforts-on-airports-hegenberger-corridor-are-working","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Crime along East Oakland’s troubled Hegenberger corridor, which leads to the Oakland International Airport, has decreased since last year amid a greater presence of law enforcement and more collaboration with community groups, Mayor Sheng Thao announced on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing some promising results,” said Thao, flanked by law enforcement and business leaders at an event in front of the Oakland Airport Hilton hotel. “We are seeing that crimes — whether it’s burglaries, property crimes, homicides — all in this corridor, they are trending down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The multipronged effort includes an increased police presence in the area, the deployment of “safety ambassadors,” and a private security team hired to patrol various businesses along the corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all comes in response to public pressure after years of rampant car break-ins, carjackings and other crimes that have plagued the corridor that connects the airport to the rest of the city. Crime along Hegenberger Road drew national attention in January when In-N-Out Burger \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/too-little-too-late-east-oaklanders-disappointed-in-n-out-is-closing\">announced\u003c/a> plans to close its only Oakland location, at the Hegenberger exit off Highway 880, citing crime concerns. The restaurant, set to close next week, will be the first location the chain has ever permanently shuttered in its 75-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11979892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/03/19/oakland-mayor-says-crime-reduction-efforts-on-airports-hegenberger-corridor-are-working/download-1-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11979892\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11979892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1.jpeg\" alt=\"a sign outside an In n' Out restaurant says it's closing\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/download-1-160x107.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In-N-Out Burger on Oakport Road, near Hegenberger Road, in January announced it would close its doors (after March 24), citing crime and safety concerns in the area.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We all know crime has caused significant impacts on a lot of our businesses, and specifically the tourism sector here in Oakland,” said Dhruv Patel, president of Ridgemont Hospitality, which owns multiple hotels near the airport. At the press conference, Patel said that things have been improving with the city’s focus on the neighborhood. “The increase in police, sheriff and CHP presence is welcomed by hoteliers, residents and tourists alike. The ambassador program will only continue to build on that and bolster our overall collective efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past several months, we have seen an overall improvement along the corridor,” Patel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland police said property crimes in the area have gone down since mid-2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11959799,news_11975161,news_11961919","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Currently, we have six foot-patrol officers and one sergeant dedicated to East Oakland,” said Angelica Mendoza, deputy chief of the Oakland Police Department. “Officers focus on enhancing security in shopping centers and gas stations within their respective areas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all part of a $2 million effort to fund safety improvements across the Hegenberger corridor, Fruitvale neighborhood and downtown Oakland. At a press conference last month at the Holiday Inn & Suites on Hegenberger Road, law enforcement and community leaders also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/east-bay-crime-consortium-18667201.php\">announced\u003c/a> they would meet quarterly to coordinate strategies to reduce crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974920/newsom-to-deploy-120-chp-officers-to-fight-crime-surge-in-oakland\">120 California Highway Patrol officers were deployed\u003c/a> to Oakland and elsewhere in Alameda County as part of a “surge operation” that resulted in scores of arrests and the recovery of hundreds of stolen vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The CHP will continue to conduct unannounced surge operations alongside our law enforcement partner agencies in high-crime areas across the East Bay region,” said Don Goodbrand, CHP’s Golden Gate division commander. “Future searches will consist of 40 to 65 officers, in addition to the 72 that are currently assigned to the Oakland office for patrol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember Treva Reid, whose district includes the corridor, also highlighted the work of community safety ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The safety ambassador program was launched at a critical time here in East Oakland,” Reid said. “We all feel the weight of the public safety crisis. It has overwhelmed us in every corner of our city and throughout this region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city launched the program last year and contracted the nonprofit Black Cultural Zone to employ 35 ambassadors in the area. Similar community ambassador programs were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976748/oakland-mayors-announcement-of-3-5-million-public-safety-grant-disrupted-by-protesters-seeking-her-recall\">also launched last year\u003c/a> in Fruitvale and Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to have respectful, community-oriented policing if any of this is going to work,” said Greg Hodge, CEO of the nonprofit Brotherhood of Elders Network. “For years, the relationship with law enforcement in the Black community, shall I say, has not been good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: “This is a moment for us to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979891/oakland-mayor-says-crime-reduction-efforts-on-airports-hegenberger-corridor-are-working","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_33915","news_416","news_31962"],"featImg":"news_11979893","label":"news"},"news_11979533":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11979533","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11979533","score":null,"sort":[1710500433000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47","title":"'I Don't Want to Go Back to the Ballot': Assembly Speaker Rivas Opposes Changes to Proposition 47","publishDate":1710500433,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘I Don’t Want to Go Back to the Ballot’: Assembly Speaker Rivas Opposes Changes to Proposition 47 | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) on Thursday said he didn’t want to ask voters to reverse parts of Proposition 47, the state’s controversial criminal justice reform law that some critics blame for increases in rates of shoplifting and organized retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to go back to the ballot,” Rivas said on KQED’s Political Breakdown. “I don’t think we need to repeal Prop. 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas joins the two other most powerful Democrats in Sacramento — Gov. Gavin Newsom and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article285940321.html\">Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire\u003c/a> — who previously stated their opposition to bringing the question back to voters. Rivas, McGuire and Newsom all say the state can tackle retail theft issues through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>California voters passed Proposition 47 in 2014, as the state faced a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce its prison population and as public opinion swung away from tough-on-crime laws that dominated criminal justice in previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure lowered simple possession of illegal drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas)\"]‘When you talk about Prop. 47, the important criminal justice reforms we have taken in this state — for me personally, there’s no going backwards.’[/pullquote]The thinking behind the ballot measure, which passed with nearly 60% support, was that expensive jail and prison beds should be reserved for people who pose a threat of violence and are not an appropriate place for drug addicts and minor thieves. It was crafted so that the state would have to reinvest the cost savings from fewer people in jails and prisons into treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons — $113 million this fiscal year alone, according to the governor’s Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement leaders have always opposed the law and, in recent years, have blamed the measure for increasingly visible retail theft problems in California, ranging from repeat offenders who shoplift small amounts to organized retail crime rings that steal merchandise to resell it. The brazenness of these crimes, which are often caught on video, has increased political pressure on Democrats in Sacramento to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">KQED analysis of Proposition 47 found \u003c/a>that law enforcement has been less aggressive in recent years in arresting low-level shoplifters and that Proposition 47 is often blamed for crimes that it doesn’t directly affect, such as large-scale organized retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it matters: \u003c/strong>Rivas’ comments could rankle some members of his caucus who are clamoring to change Proposition 47 on the ballot. Six Assembly Democrats have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1772\">signed on to a bipartisan bill\u003c/a> that would ask voters to approve additional jail time for people convicted of theft who have two or more prior shoplifting offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11975692 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1363480595-1020x680.jpg']And Kevin McCarty, chair of the Assembly Public Safety committee and a key Rivas ally has refused to close the door on changes to Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not picking and choosing which ideas are moving forward yet,” McCarty said at a February press conference. “Everything is on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What comes next could be a key test for Rivas’ promises of an egalitarian speakership, in which more bills will be given the opportunity of a public hearing. How far will Rivas allow proposals to advance that he personally opposes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What they’re saying: \u003c/strong> Rivas and Assembly Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/retail-theft-california-crime-bill/\">rolled out a bill\u003c/a> in February to tackle organized retail theft. While many other proposals focus on increasing criminal penalties for shoplifting, Rivas said the Assembly legislation targets a different key player: The online marketplaces where stolen goods are often resold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an undeniable connection when it comes to the proliferation of organized retail theft and the ease in selling stolen goods on these online marketplaces and e-commerce platforms,” he told Political Breakdown. “And so expecting more transparency and accountability from them needs to be part of the solution. They have to do much more to prevent the sale of stolen goods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would, among other things, require online sellers to maintain records showing that goods were legally obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said, in general, he remains committed to criminal justice reform and the strides the state has made in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching\u003c/strong>: Bills to push Proposition 47 changes onto the ballot could receive hearings in the coming weeks — along with other proposals that aim to reduce shoplifting without going to the voters. Those changes, backed by Newsom, include proposals that would make it easier for law enforcement and prosecutors to arrest and charge shoplifters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, groups representing retailers and prosecutors are collecting signatures to qualify a ballot measure to create new felonies for repeated theft. Rivas said Thursday he remains confident that a compromise can be achieved to avoid a bruising ballot fight this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I prefer the legislative process because it allows us to engage all stakeholders and refine any bill throughout that process,” Rivas said. “When you talk about Prop. 47, the important criminal justice reforms we have taken in this state — for me personally, there’s no going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen up:\u003c/strong> Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979435/how-assembly-speaker-rivas-rural-farmworker-background-affects-his-leadership-style\">the full episode of Political Breakdown\u003c/a>, on which Rivas talked to Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer about his first year as Assembly speaker, the state budget, and how he has dealt with a stutter throughout his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Asked about changes to controversial criminal justice reforms, the top Democrats told KQED’s Political Breakdown they don't think Proposition 47 should be repealed.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710524108,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":976},"headData":{"title":"'I Don't Want to Go Back to the Ballot': Assembly Speaker Rivas Opposes Changes to Proposition 47 | KQED","description":"Asked about changes to controversial criminal justice reforms, the top Democrats told KQED’s Political Breakdown they don't think Proposition 47 should be repealed.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'I Don't Want to Go Back to the Ballot': Assembly Speaker Rivas Opposes Changes to Proposition 47","datePublished":"2024-03-15T11:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-15T17:35:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) on Thursday said he didn’t want to ask voters to reverse parts of Proposition 47, the state’s controversial criminal justice reform law that some critics blame for increases in rates of shoplifting and organized retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to go back to the ballot,” Rivas said on KQED’s Political Breakdown. “I don’t think we need to repeal Prop. 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas joins the two other most powerful Democrats in Sacramento — Gov. Gavin Newsom and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article285940321.html\">Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire\u003c/a> — who previously stated their opposition to bringing the question back to voters. Rivas, McGuire and Newsom all say the state can tackle retail theft issues through the legislative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>California voters passed Proposition 47 in 2014, as the state faced a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce its prison population and as public opinion swung away from tough-on-crime laws that dominated criminal justice in previous decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure lowered simple possession of illegal drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When you talk about Prop. 47, the important criminal justice reforms we have taken in this state — for me personally, there’s no going backwards.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The thinking behind the ballot measure, which passed with nearly 60% support, was that expensive jail and prison beds should be reserved for people who pose a threat of violence and are not an appropriate place for drug addicts and minor thieves. It was crafted so that the state would have to reinvest the cost savings from fewer people in jails and prisons into treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons — $113 million this fiscal year alone, according to the governor’s Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement leaders have always opposed the law and, in recent years, have blamed the measure for increasingly visible retail theft problems in California, ranging from repeat offenders who shoplift small amounts to organized retail crime rings that steal merchandise to resell it. The brazenness of these crimes, which are often caught on video, has increased political pressure on Democrats in Sacramento to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system\">KQED analysis of Proposition 47 found \u003c/a>that law enforcement has been less aggressive in recent years in arresting low-level shoplifters and that Proposition 47 is often blamed for crimes that it doesn’t directly affect, such as large-scale organized retail theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why it matters: \u003c/strong>Rivas’ comments could rankle some members of his caucus who are clamoring to change Proposition 47 on the ballot. Six Assembly Democrats have \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1772\">signed on to a bipartisan bill\u003c/a> that would ask voters to approve additional jail time for people convicted of theft who have two or more prior shoplifting offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975692","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/GettyImages-1363480595-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And Kevin McCarty, chair of the Assembly Public Safety committee and a key Rivas ally has refused to close the door on changes to Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not picking and choosing which ideas are moving forward yet,” McCarty said at a February press conference. “Everything is on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What comes next could be a key test for Rivas’ promises of an egalitarian speakership, in which more bills will be given the opportunity of a public hearing. How far will Rivas allow proposals to advance that he personally opposes?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What they’re saying: \u003c/strong> Rivas and Assembly Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/retail-theft-california-crime-bill/\">rolled out a bill\u003c/a> in February to tackle organized retail theft. While many other proposals focus on increasing criminal penalties for shoplifting, Rivas said the Assembly legislation targets a different key player: The online marketplaces where stolen goods are often resold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an undeniable connection when it comes to the proliferation of organized retail theft and the ease in selling stolen goods on these online marketplaces and e-commerce platforms,” he told Political Breakdown. “And so expecting more transparency and accountability from them needs to be part of the solution. They have to do much more to prevent the sale of stolen goods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would, among other things, require online sellers to maintain records showing that goods were legally obtained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said, in general, he remains committed to criminal justice reform and the strides the state has made in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching\u003c/strong>: Bills to push Proposition 47 changes onto the ballot could receive hearings in the coming weeks — along with other proposals that aim to reduce shoplifting without going to the voters. Those changes, backed by Newsom, include proposals that would make it easier for law enforcement and prosecutors to arrest and charge shoplifters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, groups representing retailers and prosecutors are collecting signatures to qualify a ballot measure to create new felonies for repeated theft. Rivas said Thursday he remains confident that a compromise can be achieved to avoid a bruising ballot fight this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I prefer the legislative process because it allows us to engage all stakeholders and refine any bill throughout that process,” Rivas said. “When you talk about Prop. 47, the important criminal justice reforms we have taken in this state — for me personally, there’s no going backwards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen up:\u003c/strong> Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979435/how-assembly-speaker-rivas-rural-farmworker-background-affects-his-leadership-style\">the full episode of Political Breakdown\u003c/a>, on which Rivas talked to Marisa Lagos and Scott Shafer about his first year as Assembly speaker, the state budget, and how he has dealt with a stutter throughout his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11979533/i-dont-want-to-go-back-to-the-ballot-assembly-speaker-rivas-opposes-changes-to-proposition-47","authors":["3239","227"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_22276","news_18502"],"featImg":"news_11979443","label":"news"},"news_11975692":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11975692","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11975692","score":null,"sort":[1707931027000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system","title":"Proposition 47's Impact on California's Criminal Justice System","publishDate":1707931027,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Proposition 47’s Impact on California’s Criminal Justice System | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For the last decade, most Democrats have staunchly defended one of the state’s biggest criminal justice reform measures: Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent months, more and more state leaders are pushing some sort of overhaul of the 2014 ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a major shift from a decade ago when voters approved the initiative to lower many drug possession and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was in the middle of reversing tough-on-crime laws, trading them for a slew of criminal justice reforms that were spurred by a U.S. Supreme Court order to thin out the state’s overcrowded prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s growing concerns over property crime and public safety have put a target on Proposition 47, even though state data show no significant increase in reported shoplifting or overall theft in California since the measure passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has changed over the past decade is the likelihood that police will arrest someone for stealing. According to state data obtained by KQED, about 15% of theft cases resulted in an arrest in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. In 2022, that number had dropped to 6.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in more than 90% of reported cases of theft, no one is ever arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón\"]‘I think it’s important, first of all, just to sort of separate organized retail theft from Prop. 47, because Prop. 47 doesn’t apply to organized retail theft — they are robberies, they are burglaries, they are conspiracies.’[/pullquote]Voters and Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly spurned efforts to reverse reforms like Proposition 47, despite vocal and unrelenting attacks of the measure by conservative prosecutors and police officials over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there’s a growing sense in the state, even on the left, that property crimes have spiraled out of control: Big retailers are locking up merchandise or shuttering stores altogether. Videos of mobs of thieves ransacking luxury goods have gone viral. And even Democrats who support Proposition 47 are saying that something needs to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail theft has changed,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said last month, shortly after he released the outlines of a plan to tackle property crime in California — one that would not touch Proposition 47. “It’s become deeply organized. And that’s what we need to go after. And that’s a whole different thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who supported Proposition 47 from its inception, remains bullish on the measure’s benefits. But as 2024 begins, there’s at least one proposed ballot measure that, if put before voters in November, would roll back portions of the law — and just last week, the mayors of two large liberal cities, San Francisco and San Jose, threw their weight behind the initiative. And there are at least a dozen proposals in the state Legislature to tweak or overturn the law — proposals that would also have to be approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Assembly has even convened a special committee to examine retail theft and come up with proposed solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how, or whether, Proposition 47 has actually changed criminal behavior is harder to quantify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This investigation, based on dozens of interviews and conversations with law enforcement leaders, criminal justice experts, retailers and others, as well as reviews of state and local data, lent credence to some criticisms of Proposition 47 but undercut others. And it revealed some potential policy changes that could help blunt the negative impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among our findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#numbers\">The Numbers:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Shoplifting numbers reported to law enforcement have not risen since Proposition 47, but the rate of arrests has fallen significantly. And there is evidence that many retailers do not report all thefts to police.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#police\">Police and Retailer Response:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Police and retailers have become less aggressive at engaging and arresting low-level shoplifters in recent years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#blame\">Misplaced Blame:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Proposition 47 is often blamed for crimes that are well outside its purview, such as organized retail theft rings and flash mobs targeting luxury goods stores.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#felony\">Felony Threshold:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> There’s no evidence in California or elsewhere that increasing that dollar threshold for felony shoplifting has led to more theft.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#offenders\">Repeat Offenders:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> It remains incredibly difficult for prosecutors to aggregate charges and charge repeat shoplifters with felonies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#courts\">Drug Courts:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Participation in some diversion programs, particularly drug courts, has dropped over the past decade.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outcomes\">Positive Outcomes:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> The ballot measure has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons, savings that have been funneled into reentry programs with incredibly high success rates.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The Promise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The theory behind Proposition 47 was that expensive jail and prison beds should be reserved for people who pose a threat of violence and are not an appropriate place for drug addicts and minor thieves. It was crafted so that the state would have to reinvest the cost savings from fewer people in jails and prisons into treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure came before voters on the heels of the 2011 Supreme Court order to reduce the state’s prison populations and was passed as California’s violent crime rate hit a 50-year low. The vote wasn’t even close: the measure passed with nearly 60% support, by more than 1.3 million votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the thinking behind Proposition 47 was, can we have a more judicious definition of what’s considered a felony and reserve that category for more serious crimes?” said Lenore Anderson, one of the ballot measure’s architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should be held accountable. This is not permitted activity. This is a crime. The question is, what level of crime is it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 was one of several criminal justice reforms approved by lawmakers and voters between 2011 and 2016. Among Proposition 47’s signature — and most controversial — policy changes is it lowered simple possession of illegal drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10743111,news_10513981\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“That’s essentially what we’re talking about: … theft of items under $950,” said Anderson, who is co-founder and president of the national reform group Alliance for Safety and Justice, which grew out of Proposition 47’s sponsor, Californians for Safety and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson argues that voters’ wishes have been repeatedly made clear. In addition to passing Proposition 47 in 2014, as well as ballot measures in 2012 and 2016 that made some prison sentences shorter, Californians resoundingly rejected an attempt to roll back portions of Proposition 47 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that we see cycling in and out of the justice system that we don’t want to have cycling in our justice system, oftentimes there’s underlying addiction issues. There’s extreme economic desperation, there’s extreme instability,” Anderson said. “Whatever the problem is, voters are clear. That’s not who we’re targeting with these precious justice system resources. Let’s put those folks on a pathway to treatment and healing and get them to stop cycling in and out through a different approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether Proposition 47 has succeeded is a matter of intense debate, and many law enforcement critics have attacked the measure from the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"numbers\">\u003c/a>The Numbers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Calls for reform of Proposition 47 are predicated on the assumption that retail theft has gone up in recent years. But in California, reported incidents of shoplifting have actually fallen, according to data collected by the California Department of Justice: From around 97,000 in 2014, when Proposition 47 was approved, to about 82,000 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Statewide Crime Rates, 2003-2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1nU6Q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1nU6Q/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retailers don’t report a huge increase nationally, either: the 2022 Retail Security Survey, conducted by the National Retail Federation, shows a “shrink” rate of about 1.4% of inventory, which is in line with the survey’s five-year average. (Shrink refers to all inventory losses, including internal and external theft and fraud and paperwork errors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reported Shoplifting Incidents per County, 2003 - 2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-HzP9n\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HzP9n/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry group’s report blames organized retail crime as the primary driver of external theft — and said, perhaps most troublingly, that 8 out of 10 retailers report an increase in violence and aggression associated with organized retail incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, particularly for frontline retail workers. But Proposition 47 supporters — including Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón — say it’s not the fault of the ballot measure. He said these types of organized crime rings are committing felony offenses well beyond the purview of the ballot measure, including robbery, conspiracy and sometimes assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón campaigned on behalf of Proposition 47 when he was San Francisco’s top prosecutor. He said his office is currently prosecuting dozens of cases related to organized retail crimes that include robbery, conspiracy and other felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important, first of all, just to sort of separate organized retail theft from Prop. 47, because Prop. 47 doesn’t apply to organized retail theft — they are robberies, they are burglaries, they are conspiracies,” he said. “The reality is that we have a problem. And the problem is primarily driven by organized retail theft. And it has to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some policymakers dispute the accuracy of the reported shoplifting figures and say that many shoplifting incidents are not reported at all. Santa Monica Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, who chairs the Assembly’s special committee on retail theft, said numerous retailers have told him they don’t bother to report thefts to police. San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said some businesses have created their own thresholds — say, only if it’s over $50 — for reporting theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Michelin, president and CEO of the California Retailers Association, agreed that shoplifting is underreported. She said many store managers feel pressure not to draw negative attention to their business and also know that police agencies have other, more serious priorities to handle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Proposition 47 supporters note that businesses and police still can report thefts of any amount under the ballot measure — they are just choosing not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"police\">\u003c/a>Police and Retailer Response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What is clear: Police are less likely to arrest someone for stealing than they were a decade ago. And retailers also appear less willing to apprehend shoplifters than they were in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, arrest rates for all crimes in California have fallen over the past decade, but none as sharply as shoplifting. For example, 41% of violent crimes resulted in an arrest in 2022, down from more than 45% in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. But just 6.6% of reported theft incidents resulted in an arrest in 2022, down from 15% in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Statewide Clearance Rates, 2003-2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-8OsID\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OsID/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin said it’s both problematic if retailers are not reporting crimes and if police aren’t arresting suspects when they are reported — but that there’s nothing in Proposition 47 preventing police from arresting shoplifters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubrin, who conducted the first study of Proposition 47’s impacts on crime, said low clearance rates usually indicate “a breakdown between police and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s nothing about Prop. 47 that says when you’re allowed to make an arrest or not make an arrest,” she said. “People can still be arrested and should still be arrested, but they are now being charged with misdemeanors, which require jail time of less than a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may technically be true, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. Misdemeanors are punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. But he said most people get off with little or no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality in California (is that) misdemeanors do not result in any actionable consequence or deterrence. Now, we can argue back and forth on whether that’s right or wrong. And I’m just telling you, that’s how it is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig’s frustration at the lack of consequences for misdemeanors is a common complaint among Proposition 47 skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if police are willing to engage someone accused of simple shoplifting, they may not have the resources to respond. The number of sworn police officers has fallen in California in recent years, posing tough choices for police agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their job is to respond to the calls by priority. And the top calls are, you know, murder, rape, robbery, child molest,” Reisig said. “They’re not responding to a misdemeanor retail theft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By nearly all accounts, police and retailers have become less aggressive at engaging and arresting low-level shoplifters in recent years. Michelin, of the California Retailers Association, said there’s a fear of blowback, particularly since so much is now caught on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The retailers, they’re trying to do what they can, but, you know, if they go too far. they’re the ones that are going to get sued,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an issue that’s caused friction between law enforcement officials and some large companies. In November, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper took to X, formerly Twitter, to go after Target security officials for preventing his officers from apprehending suspected shoplifters in the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sheriffjcooper/status/1722744442782937438?s=10&t=Loau47vje53ILf4rlmrG3g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Scott agreed that many retailers are choosing to take a “hands-off approach” and that police officers have also felt the pressure to be less aggressive in the wake of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the subsequent racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he insisted that it’s in everyone’s best interest to report theft and respond to it within the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise we become apathetic, and I think that fuels some of this brazenness…when there’s apathy and no accountability,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s intuition is in line with what criminologists have concluded after decades of studying criminal behavior, said Jake Horowitz, who directs research on safety and justice at the Pew Charitable Trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from research that it’s the likelihood of getting captured, not the severity of the sanction that deters behavior,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, years of data show it’s the threat of being arrested — not whether someone is being arrested for a felony or misdemeanor — that discourages people from breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t say, you know, I can do five years, but, if I get caught for this, I just can’t do 10. They don’t want to get caught at all,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who added that “there’s no such thing as a misdemeanor being allowed. It is specifically, criminally prohibited in our law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he backs one tweak to state law to clarify that a police officer can arrest someone for stealing, even if they did not witness the theft. That change is being proposed by Gov. Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"blame\">\u003c/a>Misplaced Blame\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is often blamed for visible, upsetting crimes that are well outside its purview, such as organized retail theft rings and flash mobs targeting luxury goods stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, last August, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeffreisig/status/1690598513808486400?s=42&t=8QR1pwbTF-pnrlueczZJUQ\">Reisig, the Yolo County DA, posted a video\u003c/a> on X of a group ransacking a Nordstrom in the San Fernando Valley. His caption read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This retail theft mob happened at a Nordstrom in California today. Because of broken state laws, these crimes are considered “non-serious” and “non-violent” and nobody will go to state prison, even if caught and convicted. State laws need to be fixed and YES, many people need to go to prison for this type of crime.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hashtag_click\"> #California\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Crime?src=hashtag_click\"> #Crime\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/RetailTheft?src=hashtag_click\"> #RetailTheft\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FixProp47?src=hashtag_click\"> #FixProp47\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jeffreisig/status/1690598513808486400?s=42&t=8QR1pwbTF-pnrlueczZJUQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig linked the incident to Proposition 47, despite the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/video-captures-mob-of-robbers-swarming-nordstrom-in-topanga-mall/\">police said\u003c/a> the group of 20–50 people engaged in behavior that would clearly constitute a felony: Pepper spraying a security guard and stealing more than $60,000 in merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Reisig defended the post, saying that Proposition 47 has created a narrative that there are no consequences for stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with Prop. 47, and this is why I always mention it, is that what it has created is such a knowing lack of consequence for theft that it has created a culture of lawlessness regarding retail theft,” he said. “And that’s why you have seen this proliferation of these smash and grabs and brazen thefts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors say they are regularly going after these types of crimes. San Mateo prosecutor Steve Wagstaffe said he’s currently pursuing grand theft charges against a group of women who stole $68,000 worth of high-end sunglasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Los Angeles, District Attorney Gascón said he’s currently prosecuting more than 100 organized retail theft cases as felonies — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-flash-mob-retail-thefts-robberies-nordstrom-westfield-topanga-crime-lapd/3212782/#:~:text=Those%20arrests%20include%20at%20least,handbags%2C%20clothes%20and%20other%20items.\">including at least one suspect from the San Fernando Valley Nordstrom incident.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also agreement that these problems — of organized retail theft and smash-and-grab incidents — are national in scope and driven in part by the lucrative nature of selling stolen goods on the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a growing problem, we’re seeing it increase not just here in California but across the country,” Rachel Michelin of the California Retailers Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said California has been a leader in tackling the issue since 2018, when former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law creating state task forces to investigate and prosecute organized rings and that Gov. Gavin Newsom has\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/CriminalJusticeandJudicialBranch.pdf\"> continued to invest around $85 million a year\u003c/a> into law enforcement grants and other investigative support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, the UC Irvine criminologist, said the most visible property crimes — “smash and grab” robberies by large groups of people — seem to have more to do with criminal trends brought on by the pandemic than any policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 was passed in 2014. Smash and grabs became a thing, I would say, starting around December of 2020,” she said. “In that lag was everything from the pandemic to economic instability, to challenging police-community relations, to political divisiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State leaders do agree with Reisig that more can be done to crack down on professional theft rings. Newsom is asking state lawmakers to strengthen several laws this year to make it easier to prosecute people who steal things to resell them and increase penalties for large-scale retailers of stolen property.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"felony\">\u003c/a>Felony Threshold\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most common attacks on Proposition 47 is over its provision that raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950, meaning that in order for prosecutors to charge a felony, the value of stolen goods would have to exceed $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s no evidence in California or elsewhere that increasing that dollar threshold for felony shoplifting has led to more theft, according to Pew’s Jake Horowitz, who has conducted research on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research looked at 30 states that raised their felony threshold between 2000 and 2012 and found no evidence that it resulted in increased property crime. In fact, theft rates continued to decline after the change. In general, he said, there’s no correlation between property crime rates and the felony threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz noted that there are wide variations in felony thresholds across the nation: In Texas, you have to steal $2,500 or more worth of goods to be prosecuted for a felony; in New Jersey, anything over $200 is a felony. And, he said that if states don’t raise the dollar threshold, their statutes automatically become more punitive because inflation erodes the value of a dollar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a defense of Proposition 47 Gov. Newsom has leaned into: He showed a chart at a recent news conference noting that at least nine other states have higher thresholds than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured speaking from a podium inside a conference room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11975715 alignright\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-800x2069.png\" alt=\"A data graph showing felony theft thresholds.\" width=\"392\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-800x2069.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-1020x2638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-160x414.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-594x1536.png 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-792x2048.png 792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state.png 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it sounds like California’s a little tougher than Texas,” he mused.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"offenders\">\u003c/a>Repeat Offenders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another common complaint from both law enforcement and retailers is that Proposition 47 has made it difficult to charge repeat thieves with felonies — even if they are stealing again and again from the same stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters note that state law does allow prosecutors to charge someone with grand theft for separate incidents if “the acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan.” That power was already allowed by court decisions but was also passed through legislation in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has been used before. Among those cases: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/prolific-retail-thief-responsible-for-more-than-100-thefts-from-target-chesa-boudin-says\">In 2021, a “serial” thief was charged with 8 counts of felony grand theft in San Francisco\u003c/a> in connection with 120 alleged shoplifting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reisig said prosecutors aren’t using the statute because it’s virtually impossible to prove that multiple thefts are committed with the same intent and for the same purpose. And, he said, it also requires all of the thefts be reported to police, and for police to follow up with a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón disagreed, saying it is possible to aggregate charges, but acknowledged that it does take more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have got to make the first arrest. If they don’t make the first arrest it is very hard to make a case for the aggregation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also noted that it’s already possible under state law to charge people who are stealing in order to resell as part of an organized retail theft ring with a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Assemblyman Rick Zbur and others believe that a simple change to the law could make aggregating charges far easier for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zbur said this is an area he’d like to see lawmakers tackle; it’s also one of the proposed reforms Gov. Newsom is asking the Legislature to undertake. In Newsom’s case, he is asking for legislation clarifying that law enforcement can combine the value of multiple thefts to charge grand theft, even if there are different victims involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"courts\">\u003c/a>Drug Courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors critical of Proposition 47 have complained since its implementation that the measure has resulted in a steep drop in participation in collaborative courts, also known as diversion programs. These programs generally offer someone charged with a crime the opportunity to have the charges dropped or reduced if they complete some sort of treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Proposition 47, said Wagstaffe, the top prosecutor in San Mateo County, many people arrested for theft would be facing felony charges that could carry jail or prison time — giving them an incentive to participate in drug courts as an alternative to being incarcerated and having a felony conviction on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My observation over the decades is that [very few] drug addicts can reach within themselves and say, ‘it’s time,’” Wagstaffe said. “There needs to be something that pushes them toward it.” Wagstaffe believes that Proposition 47 took away the court’s leverage, “because judges were not going to fill up our jails with misdemeanors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t collect statewide data on participation in drug courts, but KQED obtained data from more than a dozen counties and found that nearly all of them had seen a drop in participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wagstaffe’s county, for example, 42 defendants participated in drug court in 2016; in 2023, that number was 12. And overall, the numbers plummeted from thousands of participants a year to a few hundred, based on data from the counties that responded to our request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe doesn’t believe that it makes sense to fill jails with misdemeanor defendants, but he said there’s little incentive for someone in the throes of addiction to agree to drug treatment and probation oversight for a year if they could just plead guilty and spend a few days in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people on the frontlines of addiction treatment argue that these sorts of coerced programs don’t ultimately work long-term to keep people clean. Lanelle Laws is a licensed therapist in Los Angeles whose work at a Watts nonprofit is funded by Proposition 47 savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws said most drug court programs require participants to “quit cold turkey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t always work for everyone,” she said. “They will go back to prison because they can’t sustain themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws said her experience as an incarcerated person has shaped the way she approaches people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen what happens behind the walls. And there is a better way to approach people. There’s a better way to handle things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said he doesn’t believe everyone is capable of finding their way to treatment without some sort of stick hanging over their head. Reisig cited his personal, not just professional experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have (a) family member who has been living on the streets literally since 2015, who’s addicted to heroin, who uses heroin and fentanyl every single day,” Reisig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That family member has repeatedly refused to get help, and Reisig said he steals every day to feed his habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My own family member is the poster child for the failure of Prop. 47 that not only decriminalized hard drugs but essentially decriminalized many forms of theft,” he said. “I’m not saying that we need to go back to a system where everybody goes to prison for drugs, but this isn’t working with Prop. 47 because there’s no stick anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outcomes\">\u003c/a>Positive Outcomes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Criticisms of Proposition 47 often ignore its most tangible benefit: The money saved by incarcerating fewer people has been invested into reentry programs with very high success rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons — $113 million this fiscal year alone. Those figures are calculated every year by the state Department of Finance and included in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money has been handed out to counties and cities, who then award grants to nonprofits that run reentry programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference in outcomes between those who participate in Proposition 47 programs and the overall population released from prison is staggering. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2023/04/Recidivism-Report-for-Offenders-Released-in-Fiscal-Year-2017-18.pdf\">According to the most recent state data available, about 44% \u003c/a>of people who left prison in California returned with a new conviction in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That recidivism rate was \u003ca href=\"https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=f1cf46a86b2f4e8199bff93cc5d20e81\">only about 8% \u003c/a>for people who completed a Proposition 47 reentry program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing glasses, a hat a black jacket and dark jeans stands inside an office.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Barclay poses for portraits at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which receives funding from Proposition 47 savings. Barclay was released from prison in 2021, after 18 years. Barclay, who’s now 46, said that until this latest release, he had spent basically every year of his life since age 14 behind bars. Now, he’s a peer navigator and life coach at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles. His position is funded through the L.A. mayor’s office’s Proposition 47 program, called Project Impact. Dressed in a three-piece pinstripe suit and an L.A. Dodgers hat, he said people now mistake him for a lawyer. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Barclay is one of those success stories. He was released from prison in 2021, after 18 years. Barclay, who’s now 46, said that until this latest release, he had spent basically every year of his life since age 14 behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he’s a peer navigator and life coach at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles. His position is funded through the L.A. mayor’s office’s Proposition 47 program, called Project Impact. Dressed in a three-piece pinstripe suit and an L.A. Dodgers hat, he said people now mistake him for a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a beautiful thing because people see me, they don’t — I don’t look like I’ve been incarcerated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Impact reentry programs are based on the concept of wrap-around services, so someone like Barclay and the people he’s now coaching not only receive help getting job training but also mental and behavioral therapy, legal assistance, and access to healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a journey, but I can say with support,” Barclay said, “having somebody I can communicate with on a daily basis, really help me navigate through life challenges, you know, kept me away from unhealthy relationships, helped me just stay focused on my goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to this job, Barclay is working on a bachelor’s degree in social work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I’m able to give back to others, that’s just the ultimate blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, the UC Irvine criminologist, said stories like Barclay’s show the flaws in California’s previous overreliance on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know from the research on incarceration and crime is there are diminishing returns at some point. The added incarceration rates do not add subsequent crime declines,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For the last decade, most Democrats have defended Proposition 47, the state’s criminal justice reform measure. But recently, more state leaders are pushing some sort of overhaul of the 2014 ballot measure.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710872121,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1nU6Q/8/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HzP9n/5/","https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OsID/8/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":118,"wordCount":5022},"headData":{"title":"Proposition 47's Impact on California's Criminal Justice System | KQED","description":"For the last decade, most Democrats have defended Proposition 47, the state’s criminal justice reform measure. But recently, more state leaders are pushing some sort of overhaul of the 2014 ballot measure.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Proposition 47's Impact on California's Criminal Justice System","datePublished":"2024-02-14T17:17:07.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-19T18:15:21.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/3f98866f-f056-4e9e-af56-b11500feb007/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the last decade, most Democrats have staunchly defended one of the state’s biggest criminal justice reform measures: Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent months, more and more state leaders are pushing some sort of overhaul of the 2014 ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a major shift from a decade ago when voters approved the initiative to lower many drug possession and property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state was in the middle of reversing tough-on-crime laws, trading them for a slew of criminal justice reforms that were spurred by a U.S. Supreme Court order to thin out the state’s overcrowded prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s growing concerns over property crime and public safety have put a target on Proposition 47, even though state data show no significant increase in reported shoplifting or overall theft in California since the measure passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What has changed over the past decade is the likelihood that police will arrest someone for stealing. According to state data obtained by KQED, about 15% of theft cases resulted in an arrest in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. In 2022, that number had dropped to 6.6%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in more than 90% of reported cases of theft, no one is ever arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think it’s important, first of all, just to sort of separate organized retail theft from Prop. 47, because Prop. 47 doesn’t apply to organized retail theft — they are robberies, they are burglaries, they are conspiracies.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Voters and Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly spurned efforts to reverse reforms like Proposition 47, despite vocal and unrelenting attacks of the measure by conservative prosecutors and police officials over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now there’s a growing sense in the state, even on the left, that property crimes have spiraled out of control: Big retailers are locking up merchandise or shuttering stores altogether. Videos of mobs of thieves ransacking luxury goods have gone viral. And even Democrats who support Proposition 47 are saying that something needs to give.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retail theft has changed,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said last month, shortly after he released the outlines of a plan to tackle property crime in California — one that would not touch Proposition 47. “It’s become deeply organized. And that’s what we need to go after. And that’s a whole different thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who supported Proposition 47 from its inception, remains bullish on the measure’s benefits. But as 2024 begins, there’s at least one proposed ballot measure that, if put before voters in November, would roll back portions of the law — and just last week, the mayors of two large liberal cities, San Francisco and San Jose, threw their weight behind the initiative. And there are at least a dozen proposals in the state Legislature to tweak or overturn the law — proposals that would also have to be approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Assembly has even convened a special committee to examine retail theft and come up with proposed solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how, or whether, Proposition 47 has actually changed criminal behavior is harder to quantify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This investigation, based on dozens of interviews and conversations with law enforcement leaders, criminal justice experts, retailers and others, as well as reviews of state and local data, lent credence to some criticisms of Proposition 47 but undercut others. And it revealed some potential policy changes that could help blunt the negative impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among our findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#numbers\">The Numbers:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Shoplifting numbers reported to law enforcement have not risen since Proposition 47, but the rate of arrests has fallen significantly. And there is evidence that many retailers do not report all thefts to police.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#police\">Police and Retailer Response:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Police and retailers have become less aggressive at engaging and arresting low-level shoplifters in recent years.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#blame\">Misplaced Blame:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Proposition 47 is often blamed for crimes that are well outside its purview, such as organized retail theft rings and flash mobs targeting luxury goods stores.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#felony\">Felony Threshold:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> There’s no evidence in California or elsewhere that increasing that dollar threshold for felony shoplifting has led to more theft.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#offenders\">Repeat Offenders:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> It remains incredibly difficult for prosecutors to aggregate charges and charge repeat shoplifters with felonies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#courts\">Drug Courts:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> Participation in some diversion programs, particularly drug courts, has dropped over the past decade.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#outcomes\">Positive Outcomes:\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> The ballot measure has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons, savings that have been funneled into reentry programs with incredibly high success rates.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The Promise\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The theory behind Proposition 47 was that expensive jail and prison beds should be reserved for people who pose a threat of violence and are not an appropriate place for drug addicts and minor thieves. It was crafted so that the state would have to reinvest the cost savings from fewer people in jails and prisons into treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure came before voters on the heels of the 2011 Supreme Court order to reduce the state’s prison populations and was passed as California’s violent crime rate hit a 50-year low. The vote wasn’t even close: the measure passed with nearly 60% support, by more than 1.3 million votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the thinking behind Proposition 47 was, can we have a more judicious definition of what’s considered a felony and reserve that category for more serious crimes?” said Lenore Anderson, one of the ballot measure’s architects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People should be held accountable. This is not permitted activity. This is a crime. The question is, what level of crime is it?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 was one of several criminal justice reforms approved by lawmakers and voters between 2011 and 2016. Among Proposition 47’s signature — and most controversial — policy changes is it lowered simple possession of illegal drugs from a felony to a misdemeanor and raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_10743111,news_10513981","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“That’s essentially what we’re talking about: … theft of items under $950,” said Anderson, who is co-founder and president of the national reform group Alliance for Safety and Justice, which grew out of Proposition 47’s sponsor, Californians for Safety and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson argues that voters’ wishes have been repeatedly made clear. In addition to passing Proposition 47 in 2014, as well as ballot measures in 2012 and 2016 that made some prison sentences shorter, Californians resoundingly rejected an attempt to roll back portions of Proposition 47 in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The folks that we see cycling in and out of the justice system that we don’t want to have cycling in our justice system, oftentimes there’s underlying addiction issues. There’s extreme economic desperation, there’s extreme instability,” Anderson said. “Whatever the problem is, voters are clear. That’s not who we’re targeting with these precious justice system resources. Let’s put those folks on a pathway to treatment and healing and get them to stop cycling in and out through a different approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But whether Proposition 47 has succeeded is a matter of intense debate, and many law enforcement critics have attacked the measure from the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"numbers\">\u003c/a>The Numbers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Calls for reform of Proposition 47 are predicated on the assumption that retail theft has gone up in recent years. But in California, reported incidents of shoplifting have actually fallen, according to data collected by the California Department of Justice: From around 97,000 in 2014, when Proposition 47 was approved, to about 82,000 in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Statewide Crime Rates, 2003-2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-1nU6Q\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/1nU6Q/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retailers don’t report a huge increase nationally, either: the 2022 Retail Security Survey, conducted by the National Retail Federation, shows a “shrink” rate of about 1.4% of inventory, which is in line with the survey’s five-year average. (Shrink refers to all inventory losses, including internal and external theft and fraud and paperwork errors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Reported Shoplifting Incidents per County, 2003 - 2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-HzP9n\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/HzP9n/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry group’s report blames organized retail crime as the primary driver of external theft — and said, perhaps most troublingly, that 8 out of 10 retailers report an increase in violence and aggression associated with organized retail incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a problem, particularly for frontline retail workers. But Proposition 47 supporters — including Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón — say it’s not the fault of the ballot measure. He said these types of organized crime rings are committing felony offenses well beyond the purview of the ballot measure, including robbery, conspiracy and sometimes assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón campaigned on behalf of Proposition 47 when he was San Francisco’s top prosecutor. He said his office is currently prosecuting dozens of cases related to organized retail crimes that include robbery, conspiracy and other felony charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important, first of all, just to sort of separate organized retail theft from Prop. 47, because Prop. 47 doesn’t apply to organized retail theft — they are robberies, they are burglaries, they are conspiracies,” he said. “The reality is that we have a problem. And the problem is primarily driven by organized retail theft. And it has to be addressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some policymakers dispute the accuracy of the reported shoplifting figures and say that many shoplifting incidents are not reported at all. Santa Monica Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, who chairs the Assembly’s special committee on retail theft, said numerous retailers have told him they don’t bother to report thefts to police. San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said some businesses have created their own thresholds — say, only if it’s over $50 — for reporting theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Michelin, president and CEO of the California Retailers Association, agreed that shoplifting is underreported. She said many store managers feel pressure not to draw negative attention to their business and also know that police agencies have other, more serious priorities to handle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Proposition 47 supporters note that businesses and police still can report thefts of any amount under the ballot measure — they are just choosing not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"police\">\u003c/a>Police and Retailer Response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>What is clear: Police are less likely to arrest someone for stealing than they were a decade ago. And retailers also appear less willing to apprehend shoplifters than they were in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, arrest rates for all crimes in California have fallen over the past decade, but none as sharply as shoplifting. For example, 41% of violent crimes resulted in an arrest in 2022, down from more than 45% in 2013, the year before Proposition 47 passed. But just 6.6% of reported theft incidents resulted in an arrest in 2022, down from 15% in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Statewide Clearance Rates, 2003-2022\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-8OsID\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8OsID/8/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin said it’s both problematic if retailers are not reporting crimes and if police aren’t arresting suspects when they are reported — but that there’s nothing in Proposition 47 preventing police from arresting shoplifters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kubrin, who conducted the first study of Proposition 47’s impacts on crime, said low clearance rates usually indicate “a breakdown between police and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s nothing about Prop. 47 that says when you’re allowed to make an arrest or not make an arrest,” she said. “People can still be arrested and should still be arrested, but they are now being charged with misdemeanors, which require jail time of less than a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may technically be true, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. Misdemeanors are punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. But he said most people get off with little or no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality in California (is that) misdemeanors do not result in any actionable consequence or deterrence. Now, we can argue back and forth on whether that’s right or wrong. And I’m just telling you, that’s how it is,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisig’s frustration at the lack of consequences for misdemeanors is a common complaint among Proposition 47 skeptics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if police are willing to engage someone accused of simple shoplifting, they may not have the resources to respond. The number of sworn police officers has fallen in California in recent years, posing tough choices for police agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their job is to respond to the calls by priority. And the top calls are, you know, murder, rape, robbery, child molest,” Reisig said. “They’re not responding to a misdemeanor retail theft.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By nearly all accounts, police and retailers have become less aggressive at engaging and arresting low-level shoplifters in recent years. Michelin, of the California Retailers Association, said there’s a fear of blowback, particularly since so much is now caught on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The retailers, they’re trying to do what they can, but, you know, if they go too far. they’re the ones that are going to get sued,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an issue that’s caused friction between law enforcement officials and some large companies. In November, Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper took to X, formerly Twitter, to go after Target security officials for preventing his officers from apprehending suspected shoplifters in the store.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1722744442782937438"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Scott agreed that many retailers are choosing to take a “hands-off approach” and that police officers have also felt the pressure to be less aggressive in the wake of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the subsequent racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he insisted that it’s in everyone’s best interest to report theft and respond to it within the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Otherwise we become apathetic, and I think that fuels some of this brazenness…when there’s apathy and no accountability,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s intuition is in line with what criminologists have concluded after decades of studying criminal behavior, said Jake Horowitz, who directs research on safety and justice at the Pew Charitable Trusts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know from research that it’s the likelihood of getting captured, not the severity of the sanction that deters behavior,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, years of data show it’s the threat of being arrested — not whether someone is being arrested for a felony or misdemeanor — that discourages people from breaking the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t say, you know, I can do five years, but, if I get caught for this, I just can’t do 10. They don’t want to get caught at all,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who added that “there’s no such thing as a misdemeanor being allowed. It is specifically, criminally prohibited in our law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said he backs one tweak to state law to clarify that a police officer can arrest someone for stealing, even if they did not witness the theft. That change is being proposed by Gov. Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"blame\">\u003c/a>Misplaced Blame\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition 47 is often blamed for visible, upsetting crimes that are well outside its purview, such as organized retail theft rings and flash mobs targeting luxury goods stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, last August, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeffreisig/status/1690598513808486400?s=42&t=8QR1pwbTF-pnrlueczZJUQ\">Reisig, the Yolo County DA, posted a video\u003c/a> on X of a group ransacking a Nordstrom in the San Fernando Valley. His caption read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This retail theft mob happened at a Nordstrom in California today. Because of broken state laws, these crimes are considered “non-serious” and “non-violent” and nobody will go to state prison, even if caught and convicted. State laws need to be fixed and YES, many people need to go to prison for this type of crime.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hashtag_click\"> #California\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Crime?src=hashtag_click\"> #Crime\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/RetailTheft?src=hashtag_click\"> #RetailTheft\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FixProp47?src=hashtag_click\"> #FixProp47\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1690598513808486400"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Reisig linked the incident to Proposition 47, despite the fact that \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/video-captures-mob-of-robbers-swarming-nordstrom-in-topanga-mall/\">police said\u003c/a> the group of 20–50 people engaged in behavior that would clearly constitute a felony: Pepper spraying a security guard and stealing more than $60,000 in merchandise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Reisig defended the post, saying that Proposition 47 has created a narrative that there are no consequences for stealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with Prop. 47, and this is why I always mention it, is that what it has created is such a knowing lack of consequence for theft that it has created a culture of lawlessness regarding retail theft,” he said. “And that’s why you have seen this proliferation of these smash and grabs and brazen thefts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors say they are regularly going after these types of crimes. San Mateo prosecutor Steve Wagstaffe said he’s currently pursuing grand theft charges against a group of women who stole $68,000 worth of high-end sunglasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Los Angeles, District Attorney Gascón said he’s currently prosecuting more than 100 organized retail theft cases as felonies — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-flash-mob-retail-thefts-robberies-nordstrom-westfield-topanga-crime-lapd/3212782/#:~:text=Those%20arrests%20include%20at%20least,handbags%2C%20clothes%20and%20other%20items.\">including at least one suspect from the San Fernando Valley Nordstrom incident.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also agreement that these problems — of organized retail theft and smash-and-grab incidents — are national in scope and driven in part by the lucrative nature of selling stolen goods on the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a growing problem, we’re seeing it increase not just here in California but across the country,” Rachel Michelin of the California Retailers Association said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said California has been a leader in tackling the issue since 2018, when former Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law creating state task forces to investigate and prosecute organized rings and that Gov. Gavin Newsom has\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/BudgetSummary/CriminalJusticeandJudicialBranch.pdf\"> continued to invest around $85 million a year\u003c/a> into law enforcement grants and other investigative support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, the UC Irvine criminologist, said the most visible property crimes — “smash and grab” robberies by large groups of people — seem to have more to do with criminal trends brought on by the pandemic than any policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 was passed in 2014. Smash and grabs became a thing, I would say, starting around December of 2020,” she said. “In that lag was everything from the pandemic to economic instability, to challenging police-community relations, to political divisiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State leaders do agree with Reisig that more can be done to crack down on professional theft rings. Newsom is asking state lawmakers to strengthen several laws this year to make it easier to prosecute people who steal things to resell them and increase penalties for large-scale retailers of stolen property.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"felony\">\u003c/a>Felony Threshold\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most common attacks on Proposition 47 is over its provision that raised the felony threshold for theft from $400 to $950, meaning that in order for prosecutors to charge a felony, the value of stolen goods would have to exceed $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s no evidence in California or elsewhere that increasing that dollar threshold for felony shoplifting has led to more theft, according to Pew’s Jake Horowitz, who has conducted research on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research looked at 30 states that raised their felony threshold between 2000 and 2012 and found no evidence that it resulted in increased property crime. In fact, theft rates continued to decline after the change. In general, he said, there’s no correlation between property crime rates and the felony threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Horowitz noted that there are wide variations in felony thresholds across the nation: In Texas, you have to steal $2,500 or more worth of goods to be prosecuted for a felony; in New Jersey, anything over $200 is a felony. And, he said that if states don’t raise the dollar threshold, their statutes automatically become more punitive because inflation erodes the value of a dollar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a defense of Proposition 47 Gov. Newsom has leaned into: He showed a chart at a recent news conference noting that at least nine other states have higher thresholds than California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962596\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962596\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured speaking from a podium inside a conference room.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/003_SanFrancisco_NewsomRecallEvent_09142021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11975715 alignright\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-800x2069.png\" alt=\"A data graph showing felony theft thresholds.\" width=\"392\" height=\"1014\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-800x2069.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-1020x2638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-160x414.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-594x1536.png 594w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state-792x2048.png 792w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/AhQVO-felony-theft-thresholds-by-state.png 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it sounds like California’s a little tougher than Texas,” he mused.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"offenders\">\u003c/a>Repeat Offenders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another common complaint from both law enforcement and retailers is that Proposition 47 has made it difficult to charge repeat thieves with felonies — even if they are stealing again and again from the same stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters note that state law does allow prosecutors to charge someone with grand theft for separate incidents if “the acts are motivated by one intention, one general impulse, and one plan.” That power was already allowed by court decisions but was also passed through legislation in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it has been used before. Among those cases: \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/prolific-retail-thief-responsible-for-more-than-100-thefts-from-target-chesa-boudin-says\">In 2021, a “serial” thief was charged with 8 counts of felony grand theft in San Francisco\u003c/a> in connection with 120 alleged shoplifting incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reisig said prosecutors aren’t using the statute because it’s virtually impossible to prove that multiple thefts are committed with the same intent and for the same purpose. And, he said, it also requires all of the thefts be reported to police, and for police to follow up with a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón disagreed, saying it is possible to aggregate charges, but acknowledged that it does take more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have got to make the first arrest. If they don’t make the first arrest it is very hard to make a case for the aggregation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also noted that it’s already possible under state law to charge people who are stealing in order to resell as part of an organized retail theft ring with a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Assemblyman Rick Zbur and others believe that a simple change to the law could make aggregating charges far easier for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zbur said this is an area he’d like to see lawmakers tackle; it’s also one of the proposed reforms Gov. Newsom is asking the Legislature to undertake. In Newsom’s case, he is asking for legislation clarifying that law enforcement can combine the value of multiple thefts to charge grand theft, even if there are different victims involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"courts\">\u003c/a>Drug Courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors critical of Proposition 47 have complained since its implementation that the measure has resulted in a steep drop in participation in collaborative courts, also known as diversion programs. These programs generally offer someone charged with a crime the opportunity to have the charges dropped or reduced if they complete some sort of treatment program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Proposition 47, said Wagstaffe, the top prosecutor in San Mateo County, many people arrested for theft would be facing felony charges that could carry jail or prison time — giving them an incentive to participate in drug courts as an alternative to being incarcerated and having a felony conviction on their record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My observation over the decades is that [very few] drug addicts can reach within themselves and say, ‘it’s time,’” Wagstaffe said. “There needs to be something that pushes them toward it.” Wagstaffe believes that Proposition 47 took away the court’s leverage, “because judges were not going to fill up our jails with misdemeanors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California doesn’t collect statewide data on participation in drug courts, but KQED obtained data from more than a dozen counties and found that nearly all of them had seen a drop in participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Wagstaffe’s county, for example, 42 defendants participated in drug court in 2016; in 2023, that number was 12. And overall, the numbers plummeted from thousands of participants a year to a few hundred, based on data from the counties that responded to our request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe doesn’t believe that it makes sense to fill jails with misdemeanor defendants, but he said there’s little incentive for someone in the throes of addiction to agree to drug treatment and probation oversight for a year if they could just plead guilty and spend a few days in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some people on the frontlines of addiction treatment argue that these sorts of coerced programs don’t ultimately work long-term to keep people clean. Lanelle Laws is a licensed therapist in Los Angeles whose work at a Watts nonprofit is funded by Proposition 47 savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws said most drug court programs require participants to “quit cold turkey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That doesn’t always work for everyone,” she said. “They will go back to prison because they can’t sustain themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws said her experience as an incarcerated person has shaped the way she approaches people struggling with addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen what happens behind the walls. And there is a better way to approach people. There’s a better way to handle things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said he doesn’t believe everyone is capable of finding their way to treatment without some sort of stick hanging over their head. Reisig cited his personal, not just professional experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have (a) family member who has been living on the streets literally since 2015, who’s addicted to heroin, who uses heroin and fentanyl every single day,” Reisig said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That family member has repeatedly refused to get help, and Reisig said he steals every day to feed his habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My own family member is the poster child for the failure of Prop. 47 that not only decriminalized hard drugs but essentially decriminalized many forms of theft,” he said. “I’m not saying that we need to go back to a system where everybody goes to prison for drugs, but this isn’t working with Prop. 47 because there’s no stick anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"outcomes\">\u003c/a>Positive Outcomes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Criticisms of Proposition 47 often ignore its most tangible benefit: The money saved by incarcerating fewer people has been invested into reentry programs with very high success rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure has saved the state more than $800 million by keeping people out of jails and prisons — $113 million this fiscal year alone. Those figures are calculated every year by the state Department of Finance and included in the state budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money has been handed out to counties and cities, who then award grants to nonprofits that run reentry programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difference in outcomes between those who participate in Proposition 47 programs and the overall population released from prison is staggering. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2023/04/Recidivism-Report-for-Offenders-Released-in-Fiscal-Year-2017-18.pdf\">According to the most recent state data available, about 44% \u003c/a>of people who left prison in California returned with a new conviction in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That recidivism rate was \u003ca href=\"https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=f1cf46a86b2f4e8199bff93cc5d20e81\">only about 8% \u003c/a>for people who completed a Proposition 47 reentry program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975272\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975272\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man wearing glasses, a hat a black jacket and dark jeans stands inside an office.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3202-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Barclay poses for portraits at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition, which receives funding from Proposition 47 savings. Barclay was released from prison in 2021, after 18 years. Barclay, who’s now 46, said that until this latest release, he had spent basically every year of his life since age 14 behind bars. Now, he’s a peer navigator and life coach at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles. His position is funded through the L.A. mayor’s office’s Proposition 47 program, called Project Impact. Dressed in a three-piece pinstripe suit and an L.A. Dodgers hat, he said people now mistake him for a lawyer. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>David Barclay is one of those success stories. He was released from prison in 2021, after 18 years. Barclay, who’s now 46, said that until this latest release, he had spent basically every year of his life since age 14 behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, he’s a peer navigator and life coach at the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles. His position is funded through the L.A. mayor’s office’s Proposition 47 program, called Project Impact. Dressed in a three-piece pinstripe suit and an L.A. Dodgers hat, he said people now mistake him for a lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a beautiful thing because people see me, they don’t — I don’t look like I’ve been incarcerated,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Project Impact reentry programs are based on the concept of wrap-around services, so someone like Barclay and the people he’s now coaching not only receive help getting job training but also mental and behavioral therapy, legal assistance, and access to healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a journey, but I can say with support,” Barclay said, “having somebody I can communicate with on a daily basis, really help me navigate through life challenges, you know, kept me away from unhealthy relationships, helped me just stay focused on my goals,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to this job, Barclay is working on a bachelor’s degree in social work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that I’m able to give back to others, that’s just the ultimate blessing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charis Kubrin, the UC Irvine criminologist, said stories like Barclay’s show the flaws in California’s previous overreliance on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know from the research on incarceration and crime is there are diminishing returns at some point. The added incarceration rates do not add subsequent crime declines,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11975692/prop-47s-impact-on-californias-criminal-justice-system","authors":["3239"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_27626","news_116","news_30045"],"featImg":"news_11975732","label":"news"},"news_11961919":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961919","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961919","score":null,"sort":[1695243611000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oakland-passes-broad-public-safety-resolution-amid-rising-crime-concerns","title":"Oakland Passes Broad Public Safety Resolution Amid Rising Crime Concerns","publishDate":1695243611,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland Passes Broad Public Safety Resolution Amid Rising Crime Concerns | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894410/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-interim-police-chief-respond-to-concerns-over-crime\">a recent uptick in reported crime\u003c/a>, Oakland city leaders plan to evaluate — and potentially expand — several key services and agencies focused on preventing and responding to violence and theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council early Wednesday morning passed a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/gateway.aspx?M=F&ID=95b35524-694d-401c-8ef5-c78ed8a14fda.pdf\">resolution (PDF)\u003c/a> directing the city administrator to evaluate how to hire and retain more 911 dispatchers and police officers, expand violence prevention programs, and create a grant program to provide surveillance equipment for local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in crime and the violent nature of some of those crimes over the past several months is just unacceptable,” Councilmember Dan Kalb, who proposed the resolution, told KQED. “We have to do as much as we can to help reduce crime in the short- and long-term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927904,news_11961636,forum_2010101890809,news_11928655]Crime rates in Oakland are significantly lower than they were throughout much of the 1990s and at a peak in 2012. But there has been a more recent uptick that’s put many residents on edge, including a 17% increase in violent incidents such as homicide and aggravated assault compared to this time last year, and a 44% increase in burglary and other property crimes, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1280647384290\">the city’s police department (PDF)\u003c/a>. The rate of vehicle theft in the city has also nearly doubled since before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its numerous goals, the broad public safety resolution orders the city administrator to produce a report outlining possible measures the city can take to address its short-staffed 911 dispatch center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland needs to fill at least 16 vacancies for 911 dispatchers, a position that offers a competitive salary — about $110,000 annually — but is emotionally draining work, with high rates of turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, an Alameda County Grand Jury found that the Oakland Police Department was \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.acgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/city-of-oakland-response-1.pdf\">not answering emergency calls fast enough and was failing to adhere to state standards (PDF)\u003c/a>, which dictate that 95% of a department’s 911 calls be answered within 15 seconds. A 2022 report shows that Oakland’s emergency communication center only \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.acgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-23-GJ-Full-Report-Consolodated.pdf\">responded to about half of its calls within that time window (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also calls for recommendations on ways the city could create and implement a new grant program for small businesses looking to purchase security cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Tuesday’s vote requires the city to evaluate and report on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-ceasefire-strategy\">CeaseFire program\u003c/a> and other public safety programs, like the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO), which dispatches mental health workers to handle certain non-violent 911 calls in an effort to free up police officers for more dangerous situations and divert them from incidents that may be better handled by mental health experts. Additionally, the vote requires the city administrator to do a cost-benefit analysis of the city’s walking beat officers and non-police ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also calls for legislation to create and fund an abbreviated police academy, also known as lateral police academies, in the current budget cycle, in order to “get some experienced officers in place more quickly than it takes with brand new officers, which takes a long, long time,” Kalb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While nearly every council member supported the resolution, some members of the public called in to say they disagreed with the fast-tracked police academy idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday night’s city council meeting, Oakland interim police chief Darren Alison stated that the lateral police academies “have not been wildly successful in the past.” He cited a past example where the Oakland Police Department ran one such academy. The program brought in 22 applicants, and none were successfully hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb’s resolution is also looking for additional support from federal agencies, like the FBI, to assist Oakland in investigating unsolved homicides and shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, at 714 sworn officers, Oakland currently has more police than it’s ever had, Thao recently told KQED. In addition, she said, the governor has assigned six additional California Highway Patrol officers to work with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public speakers and council members expressed concern over the focus on adding police instead of meeting basic needs and addressing the underlying reasons why robberies and other crimes have increased recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The child tax credit ended, food stamps in California were slashed,” said Councilmember Carroll Fife. “What we need to do is make people feel safe by making sure their everyday needs are taken care of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misty Cross, a mother and member of the Moms of Magnolia Street housing activist group, said to the council, “We got to talk about the issues that are creating this. When I think about the robberies and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">bipping\u003c/a> and everything going on, and people who are committing these crimes, these are people in poverty, these are people adapting to their survival mode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959799 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1-1020x680.jpg']All findings and recommendations stemming from the resolution are due by the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Sheng Thao on Monday told KQED the city is working on many of the challenges the city plans to probe, including securing funding to expand police patrols, auditing the city’s gun violence prevention program, and approving 300 additional surveillance cameras around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said she is working to obtain drones to assist police response to shootings. This comes after several recent homicides, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/09/16/mother-of-two-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-oakland-friday-night/\">a mother of two who was shot and killed\u003c/a> by a stray bullet on Friday night as she sat on a couch in her Laurel District home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, however, admitted that the city recently \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/15/oakland-misses-state-grant-retail-theft/\">missed a key deadline\u003c/a> to apply for potentially millions of dollars in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961449/california-targets-smash-and-grabs-with-267-million-program-aimed-at-brazen-store-thefts\">state funding to help combat retail theft\u003c/a>. San Francisco, San José, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Palo Alto are among the many cities across the state that will receive funding over the next three years to buy surveillance equipment, build up investigative units, increase foot patrols, and prosecute more theft cases — but Oakland will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao attributed the mishap in part to “a personnel issue,” including understaffing in the city’s Economic Workforce Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re putting in measures and mechanisms so that we would never miss an opportunity like this again,” Thao said. “It is very disappointing. I’m highly disappointed in myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The city plans to probe its public safety programs and law enforcement academies for opportunities to expand. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697500546,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1086},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Passes Broad Public Safety Resolution Amid Rising Crime Concerns | KQED","description":"The city plans to probe its public safety programs and law enforcement academies for opportunities to expand. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Oakland Passes Broad Public Safety Resolution Amid Rising Crime Concerns","datePublished":"2023-09-20T21:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-16T23:55:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961919/oakland-passes-broad-public-safety-resolution-amid-rising-crime-concerns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Following \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101894410/oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-interim-police-chief-respond-to-concerns-over-crime\">a recent uptick in reported crime\u003c/a>, Oakland city leaders plan to evaluate — and potentially expand — several key services and agencies focused on preventing and responding to violence and theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland City Council early Wednesday morning passed a \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/gateway.aspx?M=F&ID=95b35524-694d-401c-8ef5-c78ed8a14fda.pdf\">resolution (PDF)\u003c/a> directing the city administrator to evaluate how to hire and retain more 911 dispatchers and police officers, expand violence prevention programs, and create a grant program to provide surveillance equipment for local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increase in crime and the violent nature of some of those crimes over the past several months is just unacceptable,” Councilmember Dan Kalb, who proposed the resolution, told KQED. “We have to do as much as we can to help reduce crime in the short- and long-term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927904,news_11961636,forum_2010101890809,news_11928655","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Crime rates in Oakland are significantly lower than they were throughout much of the 1990s and at a peak in 2012. But there has been a more recent uptick that’s put many residents on edge, including a 17% increase in violent incidents such as homicide and aggravated assault compared to this time last year, and a 44% increase in burglary and other property crimes, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1280647384290\">the city’s police department (PDF)\u003c/a>. The rate of vehicle theft in the city has also nearly doubled since before the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among its numerous goals, the broad public safety resolution orders the city administrator to produce a report outlining possible measures the city can take to address its short-staffed 911 dispatch center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland needs to fill at least 16 vacancies for 911 dispatchers, a position that offers a competitive salary — about $110,000 annually — but is emotionally draining work, with high rates of turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, an Alameda County Grand Jury found that the Oakland Police Department was \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.acgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/city-of-oakland-response-1.pdf\">not answering emergency calls fast enough and was failing to adhere to state standards (PDF)\u003c/a>, which dictate that 95% of a department’s 911 calls be answered within 15 seconds. A 2022 report shows that Oakland’s emergency communication center only \u003ca href=\"https://grandjury.acgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-23-GJ-Full-Report-Consolodated.pdf\">responded to about half of its calls within that time window (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also calls for recommendations on ways the city could create and implement a new grant program for small businesses looking to purchase security cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Tuesday’s vote requires the city to evaluate and report on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/oaklands-ceasefire-strategy\">CeaseFire program\u003c/a> and other public safety programs, like the Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO), which dispatches mental health workers to handle certain non-violent 911 calls in an effort to free up police officers for more dangerous situations and divert them from incidents that may be better handled by mental health experts. Additionally, the vote requires the city administrator to do a cost-benefit analysis of the city’s walking beat officers and non-police ambassadors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also calls for legislation to create and fund an abbreviated police academy, also known as lateral police academies, in the current budget cycle, in order to “get some experienced officers in place more quickly than it takes with brand new officers, which takes a long, long time,” Kalb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While nearly every council member supported the resolution, some members of the public called in to say they disagreed with the fast-tracked police academy idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday night’s city council meeting, Oakland interim police chief Darren Alison stated that the lateral police academies “have not been wildly successful in the past.” He cited a past example where the Oakland Police Department ran one such academy. The program brought in 22 applicants, and none were successfully hired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalb’s resolution is also looking for additional support from federal agencies, like the FBI, to assist Oakland in investigating unsolved homicides and shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, at 714 sworn officers, Oakland currently has more police than it’s ever had, Thao recently told KQED. In addition, she said, the governor has assigned six additional California Highway Patrol officers to work with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other public speakers and council members expressed concern over the focus on adding police instead of meeting basic needs and addressing the underlying reasons why robberies and other crimes have increased recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The child tax credit ended, food stamps in California were slashed,” said Councilmember Carroll Fife. “What we need to do is make people feel safe by making sure their everyday needs are taken care of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Misty Cross, a mother and member of the Moms of Magnolia Street housing activist group, said to the council, “We got to talk about the issues that are creating this. When I think about the robberies and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">bipping\u003c/a> and everything going on, and people who are committing these crimes, these are people in poverty, these are people adapting to their survival mode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11959799","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>All findings and recommendations stemming from the resolution are due by the end of 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Sheng Thao on Monday told KQED the city is working on many of the challenges the city plans to probe, including securing funding to expand police patrols, auditing the city’s gun violence prevention program, and approving 300 additional surveillance cameras around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said she is working to obtain drones to assist police response to shootings. This comes after several recent homicides, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/09/16/mother-of-two-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-oakland-friday-night/\">a mother of two who was shot and killed\u003c/a> by a stray bullet on Friday night as she sat on a couch in her Laurel District home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, however, admitted that the city recently \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/09/15/oakland-misses-state-grant-retail-theft/\">missed a key deadline\u003c/a> to apply for potentially millions of dollars in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961449/california-targets-smash-and-grabs-with-267-million-program-aimed-at-brazen-store-thefts\">state funding to help combat retail theft\u003c/a>. San Francisco, San José, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Palo Alto are among the many cities across the state that will receive funding over the next three years to buy surveillance equipment, build up investigative units, increase foot patrols, and prosecute more theft cases — but Oakland will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thao attributed the mishap in part to “a personnel issue,” including understaffing in the city’s Economic Workforce Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re putting in measures and mechanisms so that we would never miss an opportunity like this again,” Thao said. “It is very disappointing. I’m highly disappointed in myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961919/oakland-passes-broad-public-safety-resolution-amid-rising-crime-concerns","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_17626","news_18","news_643","news_412"],"featImg":"news_11961924","label":"news"},"news_11959799":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11959799","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11959799","score":null,"sort":[1693566058000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area","title":"Car Break-Ins: The Tips That Could Help Keep Your Vehicle Safe","publishDate":1693566058,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Car Break-Ins: The Tips That Could Help Keep Your Vehicle Safe | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It’s the fear that looms large over every person who drives a vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area. You leave your car — perhaps only for a few minutes — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">and return to a smashed window and your important belongings gone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto break-ins, \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/g-biz/content/2022-10-27-this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-your-car-has-been-bipped-too-many-times/\">unofficially referred to as “getting bipped” by many in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, are frustratingly common in the region — so common that KQED has already published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">a step-by-step guide to what to do if your car is broken into\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11959477\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/081723-CAR-BREAK-IN-BIPPED-AV-KQED-1020x680.jpg\"]And now, in the second of our two-part series on coping with car break-ins, we’re looking at possible strategies for reducing your chances of getting bipped in the Bay Area. But let’s get one thing out of the way first. …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You can do everything ‘right’ and still get bipped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, a person can do \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> they can to reduce their risk of a break-in, and still suffer one in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of “smash and grab” break-ins that happen all over the Bay Area — many times in very busy places in broad daylight — show that bipping doesn’t just happen in dark alleyways or to careless drivers. Nor do break-ins only happen to newer or expensive-looking cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opportunistic thieves can still target people who purposefully park in well-lit, crowded areas and who strip their cars of anything that looks remotely valuable in an attempt to foil a break-in. And break-ins happen to people who’ve lived in the Bay Area all their lives as well as first-time tourists. Sometimes, all your effort just doesn’t pay off — and it’s not your fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ you’ll get your car broken into if you live in the Bay Area,” said Ladan Sobhani, co-owner of Berkeley repair shop Auto Glass Express. Sobhani spoke to KQED to share advice on how to prevent getting bipped and she has also written \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">a list of tips to reduce your risks of a break-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobhani estimates that “somewhere between 50% to 25%” of the work her shop does is related to auto break-ins. “As a South Berkeley resident who has experienced her share of break-ins,” she writes in \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">her list of tips\u003c/a>, “I know that no matter how careful you are you can still be a victim of car vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean you can’t still try. And we hope the following tips might help you even lower your risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be on guard in the areas — and tourist hotspots — most at risk for break-ins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some cities and neighborhoods see more auto break-ins than others — and San Francisco has become particularly notorious among tourists and residents alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Standard reported that from July 2022 to July 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/17/san-francisco-car-break-in-epicenter-north-beach-tourists/\">there were 2,432 thefts from vehicles in the city’s North Beach neighborhood alone\u003c/a> — a 51% rise from the same 2018–2019 time period. The city’s Japantown neighborhood registered the second-highest number of break-ins, followed by the Presidio. You can also check out the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sf-car-breakins/\">SF Car Break-In Tracker tool\u003c/a>, which shows the number of bips in any given neighborhood with data going as far back as 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be especially wary around SFO or OAK airports — or on the way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Car thieves are especially vigilant around airports, says Sobhani, because they know that cars stopping in this vicinity may contain luggage headed to or from a flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re catching a flight, she urges you to be particularly careful stopping off and leaving your car at coffee shops or fast food restaurants closest to the airport. “People get broken into there multiple times a day,” said Sobhani. Back in March, NBC Bay Area reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-car-break-ins/3195436/\">the story of a couple who suffered two break-ins on the same day\u003c/a>, in the same parking lot of an In-N-Out near Oakland International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need an explainer on right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Even if you’re not close to the airport, but you’re on the way there, stay vigilant in tourist areas and local beauty spots where you or your visitors might be stopping off on the way to the airport. Marina Greenwood, a Marina resident of five years, told KQED that break-ins near the Palace of Fine Arts, where tourists often stop for one last picture before heading out of the city, were commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a tourist come to my house asking if we have video surveillance because all of their passports have been stolen, and they’re on their way to the airport,” said Greenwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The rear window of a car that is completely shattered.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even if you just leave behind a bag in your car that is completely empty, that bag could still be a reason for a thief to break your windows. \u003ccite>(ayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Never leave electronics in your car — even if you think they’re hidden\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One strategy used by many Bay Area residents is hiding important electronics somewhere inside the car where they are out of sight — but leaving anything in your car unattended still runs the risk of being stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both journalists and industry experts point out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bluetooth-car-break-in-18257966.php\">thieves targeting cars now have access to technology that can detect Bluetooth devices in your car\u003c/a>, even if they’re hidden way out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/bluetooth-scanner-car-thefts/\">\u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em> magazine looked into this phenomenon and talked to security firm founder Jake Williams\u003c/a>, who said some devices emit a Bluetooth signal even when in sleep mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that has to do with power savings; it depends on what sleep mode different laptops go into when the lid is closed,” Williams told \u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em>. “But I have little doubt that some thieves are using Bluetooth scanners to target devices. It’s trivial to use one, so it’s not like technical knowledge is a limiting factor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, car security researcher Tim Strazzere also told \u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em> that he’s more likely to attribute such electronic thefts to a thief’s eyesight rather than their technology. “If I’m sitting in a parking lot and going to break into a car,” said Strazzere, “and I see someone get out of their car and put something in their trunk, then walk away, would I bother checking my iPhone to see if a Bluetooth beacon is beaconing from that trunk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No. I’m going to smash the window two seconds after they’re out of view, take the bag, walk away, and look at it when I’m out of sight again. Save the time, go fast, grab everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why run the risk and leave any electronics in your car at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pay attention to what you leave in view — and don’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So you’ve taken out all your expensive electronics from your car. Should that cover you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly not. Auto shop owner Sobhani says you shouldn’t assume that thieves will only be tempted by expensive-looking stuff. In her \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">list of tips for reducing your risks of a break-in\u003c/a>, Sobhani writes how “a bag with stinky gym clothes cost one customer the expensive back glass on her Prius,” and warns that a bag on display with nothing of value inside it is still a bag that a thief will deem worth breaking your window for.[aside label='More Guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']At a press conference held at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts — a particular hotspot for bipping — on Aug. 24, SFPD Chief Bill Scott also warned against leaving luggage in your car, “even for a minute.” Many visitors (and residents chaperoning visitors) will leave their car for a moment to snap a photo, “and they get back and they [were] 50 yards away, and their stuff is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about victim shaming at all,” he said, “this is about just being smart. … when there’s nothing there, it makes it harder for crooks to do what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aux cables and other jacks on display can also signal to thieves that an electronic device could be close by in the car, Sobhani warns — even if it isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a hatchback or station wagon, Sobhani advises you to keep your cargo cover open (or you can remove the cover entirely), and the trunk visibly empty. That’s because “one of the most commonly broken windows” she sees in her industry is the small quarter glass on hatchbacks, which thieves will break to be able to pull down a car’s back seat and see what’s in the cargo area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Assume you and your car are being watched\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Often, people will “go out of their way” to lock a purse and a bag in their trunk before leaving their car, says Sobhani — not realizing that someone was watching them do just this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t see anyone around (the suspicious look behind you doesn’t help), you should assume that someone with nefarious intentions saw you stash that purse in the trunk,” writes Sobhani, who also mentions that she’s seen this happen to hikers visiting spots like the Berkeley Marina, Tilden Park and other East Bay Regional Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t assume that just because you’re leaving your car for just a minute or two that this isn’t enough time for a thief to strike, and make off with your stuff. It absolutely is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Shattered glass from a car window covers a street sidewalk. There are two electric scooters parked nearby.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken car-window-glass pieces are seen by a curb at San Francisco’s Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Experts also warn that some thieves keep track of what vehicle owners place in their trunk after they park. ‘You should assume that someone with nefarious intentions saw you stash that purse in the trunk,’ writes car-shop owner Ladan Sobhani. \u003ccite>(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Don’t let any ‘anti-theft’ measures make your car itself more steal-able\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Start asking around how folks in the Bay Area try to protect their own car from a robbery, and you might hear things like leaving your windows rolled down or car doors deliberately unlocked — in the hope that a thief might choose to rifle through an open car without breaking a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Janet Ruiz, director of strategic communications at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, warns that, leaving your car essentially open could also just increase the likelihood that your car might get outright stolen instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really want to protect your car from being stolen,” said Ruiz who also recommends installing a car alarm “and maybe even cameras outside your home that point to your car, as well as keeping your doors and windows locked.” If you have a garage, she says, you’re better off parking your car inside that space — or in a well-lit area in front of your home, if you don’t have a garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is law enforcement doing to reduce car break-ins?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 24 press conference held at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, police Chief Bill Scott shared that his department plans to increase the number of police officers — both in uniform and plain clothes — across the city to deter break-ins and catch thieves in the act. Popular sightseeing spots like Alamo Square, Lombard Street and Fisherman’s Wharf will now have more of what he referred to as “tourism deployment” of on-duty officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What new strategies will SFPD employ to counter thieves? Scott made it clear that he wasn’t “going to go into a whole lot of details, because by design we want the people who are breaking into cars to be caught.”[aside postID=\"news_11954507\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66630_GettyImages-1369841386-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]But he did mention that the department will be using “bait cars” owned by SFPD that contain police property in order to catch burglars “Our best chance of making this problem get better is catching people, because these are very, very difficult crimes to solve,” said Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott also encouraged residents who have been victims of a break-in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">to report what happened to the police\u003c/a>. Doing so gives authorities “an idea of where to put our resources,” he said. “We can’t solve problems that we don’t know about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite the presence of police officers in the area, the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/car-break-ins-san-francisco-tourism-police-18328516.php\">a tourist’s rental car was broken into just around the corner from where the SFPD conference was held\u003c/a> — moments before officials were due to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1680715754872934400\">after the latter’s car got bipped\u003c/a> — sorry Joe!) to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Bay Area, along with the rest of California, has seen a spike in car break-ins, also known as 'bipping.' Here are some strategies to hopefully reduce the risk of this happening to you.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1693600043,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":42,"wordCount":2447},"headData":{"title":"Car Break-Ins: The Tips That Could Help Keep Your Vehicle Safe | KQED","description":"The Bay Area, along with the rest of California, has seen a spike in car break-ins, also known as 'bipping.' Here are some strategies to hopefully reduce the risk of this happening to you.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Car Break-Ins: The Tips That Could Help Keep Your Vehicle Safe","datePublished":"2023-09-01T11:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-01T20:27:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s the fear that looms large over every person who drives a vehicle in the San Francisco Bay Area. You leave your car — perhaps only for a few minutes — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">and return to a smashed window and your important belongings gone\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auto break-ins, \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/g-biz/content/2022-10-27-this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-your-car-has-been-bipped-too-many-times/\">unofficially referred to as “getting bipped” by many in the Bay Area\u003c/a>, are frustratingly common in the region — so common that KQED has already published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">a step-by-step guide to what to do if your car is broken into\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11959477","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/081723-CAR-BREAK-IN-BIPPED-AV-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>And now, in the second of our two-part series on coping with car break-ins, we’re looking at possible strategies for reducing your chances of getting bipped in the Bay Area. But let’s get one thing out of the way first. …\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>You can do everything ‘right’ and still get bipped\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, a person can do \u003cem>everything\u003c/em> they can to reduce their risk of a break-in, and still suffer one in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of “smash and grab” break-ins that happen all over the Bay Area — many times in very busy places in broad daylight — show that bipping doesn’t just happen in dark alleyways or to careless drivers. Nor do break-ins only happen to newer or expensive-looking cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opportunistic thieves can still target people who purposefully park in well-lit, crowded areas and who strip their cars of anything that looks remotely valuable in an attempt to foil a break-in. And break-ins happen to people who’ve lived in the Bay Area all their lives as well as first-time tourists. Sometimes, all your effort just doesn’t pay off — and it’s not your fault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ you’ll get your car broken into if you live in the Bay Area,” said Ladan Sobhani, co-owner of Berkeley repair shop Auto Glass Express. Sobhani spoke to KQED to share advice on how to prevent getting bipped and she has also written \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">a list of tips to reduce your risks of a break-in\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sobhani estimates that “somewhere between 50% to 25%” of the work her shop does is related to auto break-ins. “As a South Berkeley resident who has experienced her share of break-ins,” she writes in \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">her list of tips\u003c/a>, “I know that no matter how careful you are you can still be a victim of car vandalism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean you can’t still try. And we hope the following tips might help you even lower your risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be on guard in the areas — and tourist hotspots — most at risk for break-ins\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some cities and neighborhoods see more auto break-ins than others — and San Francisco has become particularly notorious among tourists and residents alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Standard reported that from July 2022 to July 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/17/san-francisco-car-break-in-epicenter-north-beach-tourists/\">there were 2,432 thefts from vehicles in the city’s North Beach neighborhood alone\u003c/a> — a 51% rise from the same 2018–2019 time period. The city’s Japantown neighborhood registered the second-highest number of break-ins, followed by the Presidio. You can also check out the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sf-car-breakins/\">SF Car Break-In Tracker tool\u003c/a>, which shows the number of bips in any given neighborhood with data going as far back as 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Be especially wary around SFO or OAK airports — or on the way\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Car thieves are especially vigilant around airports, says Sobhani, because they know that cars stopping in this vicinity may contain luggage headed to or from a flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you’re catching a flight, she urges you to be particularly careful stopping off and leaving your car at coffee shops or fast food restaurants closest to the airport. “People get broken into there multiple times a day,” said Sobhani. Back in March, NBC Bay Area reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-bay/oakland-car-break-ins/3195436/\">the story of a couple who suffered two break-ins on the same day\u003c/a>, in the same parking lot of an In-N-Out near Oakland International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need an explainer on right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Even if you’re not close to the airport, but you’re on the way there, stay vigilant in tourist areas and local beauty spots where you or your visitors might be stopping off on the way to the airport. Marina Greenwood, a Marina resident of five years, told KQED that break-ins near the Palace of Fine Arts, where tourists often stop for one last picture before heading out of the city, were commonplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a tourist come to my house asking if we have video surveillance because all of their passports have been stolen, and they’re on their way to the airport,” said Greenwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The rear window of a car that is completely shattered.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even if you just leave behind a bag in your car that is completely empty, that bag could still be a reason for a thief to break your windows. \u003ccite>(ayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Never leave electronics in your car — even if you think they’re hidden\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One strategy used by many Bay Area residents is hiding important electronics somewhere inside the car where they are out of sight — but leaving anything in your car unattended still runs the risk of being stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both journalists and industry experts point out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bluetooth-car-break-in-18257966.php\">thieves targeting cars now have access to technology that can detect Bluetooth devices in your car\u003c/a>, even if they’re hidden way out of sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/bluetooth-scanner-car-thefts/\">\u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em> magazine looked into this phenomenon and talked to security firm founder Jake Williams\u003c/a>, who said some devices emit a Bluetooth signal even when in sleep mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that has to do with power savings; it depends on what sleep mode different laptops go into when the lid is closed,” Williams told \u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em>. “But I have little doubt that some thieves are using Bluetooth scanners to target devices. It’s trivial to use one, so it’s not like technical knowledge is a limiting factor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, car security researcher Tim Strazzere also told \u003cem>WIRED\u003c/em> that he’s more likely to attribute such electronic thefts to a thief’s eyesight rather than their technology. “If I’m sitting in a parking lot and going to break into a car,” said Strazzere, “and I see someone get out of their car and put something in their trunk, then walk away, would I bother checking my iPhone to see if a Bluetooth beacon is beaconing from that trunk?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No. I’m going to smash the window two seconds after they’re out of view, take the bag, walk away, and look at it when I’m out of sight again. Save the time, go fast, grab everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why run the risk and leave any electronics in your car at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Pay attention to what you leave in view — and don’t\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>So you’ve taken out all your expensive electronics from your car. Should that cover you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sadly not. Auto shop owner Sobhani says you shouldn’t assume that thieves will only be tempted by expensive-looking stuff. In her \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaautoglassexpress.com/6-tips-on-preventing-auto-break-ins/\">list of tips for reducing your risks of a break-in\u003c/a>, Sobhani writes how “a bag with stinky gym clothes cost one customer the expensive back glass on her Prius,” and warns that a bag on display with nothing of value inside it is still a bag that a thief will deem worth breaking your window for.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Guides from KQED ","tag":"audience-news"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At a press conference held at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts — a particular hotspot for bipping — on Aug. 24, SFPD Chief Bill Scott also warned against leaving luggage in your car, “even for a minute.” Many visitors (and residents chaperoning visitors) will leave their car for a moment to snap a photo, “and they get back and they [were] 50 yards away, and their stuff is gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not about victim shaming at all,” he said, “this is about just being smart. … when there’s nothing there, it makes it harder for crooks to do what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aux cables and other jacks on display can also signal to thieves that an electronic device could be close by in the car, Sobhani warns — even if it isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have a hatchback or station wagon, Sobhani advises you to keep your cargo cover open (or you can remove the cover entirely), and the trunk visibly empty. That’s because “one of the most commonly broken windows” she sees in her industry is the small quarter glass on hatchbacks, which thieves will break to be able to pull down a car’s back seat and see what’s in the cargo area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Assume you and your car are being watched\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Often, people will “go out of their way” to lock a purse and a bag in their trunk before leaving their car, says Sobhani — not realizing that someone was watching them do just this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you don’t see anyone around (the suspicious look behind you doesn’t help), you should assume that someone with nefarious intentions saw you stash that purse in the trunk,” writes Sobhani, who also mentions that she’s seen this happen to hikers visiting spots like the Berkeley Marina, Tilden Park and other East Bay Regional Parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And don’t assume that just because you’re leaving your car for just a minute or two that this isn’t enough time for a thief to strike, and make off with your stuff. It absolutely is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Shattered glass from a car window covers a street sidewalk. There are two electric scooters parked nearby.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762975-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken car-window-glass pieces are seen by a curb at San Francisco’s Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Experts also warn that some thieves keep track of what vehicle owners place in their trunk after they park. ‘You should assume that someone with nefarious intentions saw you stash that purse in the trunk,’ writes car-shop owner Ladan Sobhani. \u003ccite>(Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Don’t let any ‘anti-theft’ measures make your car itself more steal-able\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Start asking around how folks in the Bay Area try to protect their own car from a robbery, and you might hear things like leaving your windows rolled down or car doors deliberately unlocked — in the hope that a thief might choose to rifle through an open car without breaking a window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Janet Ruiz, director of strategic communications at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, warns that, leaving your car essentially open could also just increase the likelihood that your car might get outright stolen instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You really want to protect your car from being stolen,” said Ruiz who also recommends installing a car alarm “and maybe even cameras outside your home that point to your car, as well as keeping your doors and windows locked.” If you have a garage, she says, you’re better off parking your car inside that space — or in a well-lit area in front of your home, if you don’t have a garage.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is law enforcement doing to reduce car break-ins?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At an Aug. 24 press conference held at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, police Chief Bill Scott shared that his department plans to increase the number of police officers — both in uniform and plain clothes — across the city to deter break-ins and catch thieves in the act. Popular sightseeing spots like Alamo Square, Lombard Street and Fisherman’s Wharf will now have more of what he referred to as “tourism deployment” of on-duty officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What new strategies will SFPD employ to counter thieves? Scott made it clear that he wasn’t “going to go into a whole lot of details, because by design we want the people who are breaking into cars to be caught.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11954507","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66630_GettyImages-1369841386-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But he did mention that the department will be using “bait cars” owned by SFPD that contain police property in order to catch burglars “Our best chance of making this problem get better is catching people, because these are very, very difficult crimes to solve,” said Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott also encouraged residents who have been victims of a break-in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do\">to report what happened to the police\u003c/a>. Doing so gives authorities “an idea of where to put our resources,” he said. “We can’t solve problems that we don’t know about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite the presence of police officers in the area, the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/car-break-ins-san-francisco-tourism-police-18328516.php\">a tourist’s rental car was broken into just around the corner from where the SFPD conference was held\u003c/a> — moments before officials were due to speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1680715754872934400\">after the latter’s car got bipped\u003c/a> — sorry Joe!) to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area","authors":["3243","11867"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_32949","news_25782","news_33102","news_33101","news_33105","news_22562","news_33104","news_17626","news_27626","news_26702","news_20331","news_4500"],"featImg":"news_11959817","label":"news"},"news_11959477":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11959477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11959477","score":null,"sort":[1693508401000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do","title":"Car Break-In? From Glass Repair to Insurance Claims, Here's What to Do","publishDate":1693508401,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Car Break-In? From Glass Repair to Insurance Claims, Here’s What to Do | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#now\">\u003cstrong>Jump to: My car was \u003cem>just\u003c/em> broken into. What should I do right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for any period of time, and you’ve never had your car broken into, you can count yourself among the lucky few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, having your car windows smashed by thieves looking for items to steal feels like a queasy rite of passage for residents. \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/g-biz/content/2022-10-27-this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-your-car-has-been-bipped-too-many-times/\">You might have also heard it unofficially called “bipping.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say somewhere between 50% to 25% of our volume is auto break-ins,” says Ladan Sobhani, the co-owner of Berkeley repair shop Auto Glass Express. In her experience, “it’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ you’ll get your car broken into if you live in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what if you don’t lose any personal belongings? A car break-in will still leave you stuck with broken windows, which could end up being quite expensive depending on your insurance and the level of your deductible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to auto repair professional Sobhani as well as Janet Ruiz, Director of Strategic Communications at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, about what you need to know about having your car broken into in the Bay Area. So keep reading for advice on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#now\">\u003cstrong>What to do at the scene of the break-in\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#insurance\">\u003cstrong>How to file an insurance claim\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#driving\">\u003cstrong>Driving around with a broken window\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#replacement\">\u003cstrong>How to find replacement glass ASAP\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#costs\">\u003cstrong>Strategies to potentially reduce repair costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And if you’re looking for strategies to potentially reduce your chances of getting bipped again, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">we also have a guide with some tips that could help keep your car safe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to do immediately after a car break-in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"now\">\u003c/a>At the scene: Take photos of the damage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may feel angry or frustrated when you come back to your car and see it’s been broken into. Even if you discover nothing was taken from your car, this experience can feel extremely violating — whether it’s your first or your third break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as you’re able, put aside your emotions temporarily, swing into action and start taking photos of your car with your cell phone. Taking photos of your car, says Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute, is “the first thing you should do whenever you have a loss,” for insurance purposes.[aside postID=\"news_11959799\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1920x1280.jpg\"]Take as many clear photos of the damage as you can, including from outside the car and inside it too. If it’s dark, make sure to turn on your camera phone’s flash. If your hands are shaking — break-ins can be jarring, especially if it’s your first time — take a pause to calm yourself or ask someone else to take photos for you. You don’t want blurry, unclear photos for your insurance claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempered glass used in car windows usually shatters in a way that doesn’t create jagged, sharp pieces, so your risks of getting cut are low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve taken photos, don’t stress too much about sweeping up all the broken glass from your back seat, as a glass repair shop will almost certainly be able to vacuum this glass up for you. Of course, if you need to transport passengers back home in your back seat — or have a car seat for a kid back there — you may want to do some brushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you do, just be careful when using any automatic or manual window controls after a break-in. You can accidentally dislodge and spread around even more broken glass doing this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in San Francisco lined with Victorian homes and cars. The camera is angled from a lower angle to focus on shards of shattered glass on the floor.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken car-window-glass pieces are seen by a curb in Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Tempered glass used in car windows usually shatters in a way that doesn’t create jagged, sharp pieces, so your risks of getting cut are low. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the scene: Has your stuff been dumped nearby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your bags were snatched from your back seat or trunk, there’s a chance that the thieves may have rifled through them and then dumped anything they didn’t deem of value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feel safe doing so, take a look on the street near your car and on streets nearby — particularly paying attention around bushes, hedges, trash cans and dumpsters — to see if any of your bags or items have been tossed there. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s worth a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need an explainer on right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some people in the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-car-break-ins-18273219.php\">make it their mission to unofficially reunite owners with their stolen items\u003c/a> when they find them on the street, like Andrea Carla Michaels of \u003ca href=\"https://lostandfoundsanfranciscocom.godaddysites.com/\">LostandFoundSanFrancisco.com.\u003c/a> You could also check sites like Nextdoor.com, local Facebook groups and subreddits like r/sanfrancisco, r/oakland and r/bayarea to see if anyone has found your stuff and wants to help you reunite with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the scene or after: File a police report.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the thieves are long gone, and you aren’t injured, should you still file a police report? Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, your insurer may require you to have a police report on hand in order to process your claim. Bay Area officials are also encouraging residents to report these crimes. Doing so gives authorities “an idea of where to put our resources,” said San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott at a press conference held on Aug. 24. “We can’t solve problems that we don’t know about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can usually file a police report one of several ways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call the police non-emergency line (do not call 911 to file a police report).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>File a police report online — and make sure you save a copy for your records.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call 3-1-1.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember: If you live in a different city, you should report the crime to the police department in the city in which the break-in occurred, not the one you live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also go in-person to a police station to file a report. In San Francisco, you can also ask station officers to check your vehicle for fingerprints. “Please have your car fingerprinted. Sometimes we get evidence,” said SFPD Chief Scott. “It’s hard, but sometimes we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An urban park surrounded by cars. One of them has a rear window smashed. A police car is parked nearby.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If your car is broken into while you’re visiting a city, remember to file a police report in the city where the theft happened. If you are going to file an insurance claim for the broken glass or your stolen goods, you will most likely have to provide your insurer with a police report. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After: Think if any stolen items could compromise your personal safety or identity.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If documents containing any personal details were stolen, you could be at a higher risk for identity theft. The California Attorney General’s website \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/idtheft/facts/top-ten\">has details on how to monitor your credit for free\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If any credit or debit cards were among items stolen from your car, contact your bank immediately to have them canceled. You may also be prompted to list this theft on your police report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your house keys, entry keycards or garage opener to your building were stolen in a car break-in, you might strongly consider having the locks changed or those keycards wiped. This is especially important if thieves also took anything that would let them know your address, such as your insurance cards or vehicle registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After: If you had items stolen, start tracking down proof you owned them.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies usually won’t just take your word on which items were stolen from your car. You’ll need to prove you actually bought them, with something like a receipt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re \u003cem>incredibly\u003c/em> organized, you might not have a drawer back at home full of receipts for every item of value you’ve ever purchased in your life. The Insurance Information Institute’s Ruiz recommends that you look through your checking account or your credit card statements, which will provide a record of the purchase. You can then take a screenshot of the transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tip for the future, says Ruiz, is to make time to do what she calls a “home inventory”: Walk around your home one day and snap photos or videos of everything you own. “Open doors, open closets — go in your garage,” she recommends and particularly focus on getting photos of all your electronics. If you have expensive stereo equipment fitted \u003cem>in\u003c/em> your car, you should photograph that too. These photos will act as a timestamped record you actually owned these items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"driving\">\u003c/a>After: Driving your car with a broken window until you get repairs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving with a broken car window only becomes illegal, \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-vehicle-code/division-12-equipment-of-vehicles/chapter-4-windshields-and-mirrors/section-26710-unlawful-operation-of-motor-vehicle-when-windshield-or-rear-window-in-defective-condition#:~:text=2023%20Legislative%20Session.-,Section%2026710%20%2D%20Unlawful%20operation%20of%20motor%20vehicle%20when%20windshield%20or,to%20the%20front%20or%20rear.\">according to Section 26710 of California’s Vehicle Code\u003c/a>, “when the windshield or rear window is in such a defective condition as to impair the driver’s vision either to the front or rear.” Thieves are usually likely to break your back side windows for their convenience and speed.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Remember: After a break-in, be careful using your car’s window controls. You can accidentally dislodge and spread around broken glass doing this.[/pullquote]A repair shop will likely be able to seal up your broken car windows with “crash wrap,” a temporary adhesive film, says auto repair professional Sobhani — especially if you need to wait a little while on new glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you can’t get to a repair shop quickly and want to seal up the window yourself with film, a trash bag or cardboard, Sobhani recommends that you use blue painter’s tape — not duct tape or packing tape, “because that can really damage the paint on the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11959510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person uses a vacuum to sweep pieces of broken glass from the interior of a car. This is happening inside a car shop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When you first call your insurance provider to report the break-in, you’ll probably get a recommendation of where to get repairs. However, you are not required to choose the default repair service your insurer suggests — it’s your right, under the law. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Working with your insurance company to get your car windows fixed after a break-in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"insurance\">\u003c/a>First, know what your policy covers.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After your car gets broken into, there are two types of insurance claims that you could file:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A claim for damages to your car, which is handled by your \u003cstrong>auto insurance\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A claim for any items stolen from your car in the break-in — that goes to your \u003cstrong>homeowner’s or renter’s insurance\u003c/strong>, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As for what your policy actually covers, you’ll need to run that with your insurance provider, either by reading your policy itself or contacting your insurance agent. For example, Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute says that some auto policies will offer broken glass repair as an “extra coverage” (also known as an add-on or endorsement on your policy) so you don’t have to pay a deductible for that specific service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, get in touch with your insurance provider as soon as possible after a break-in, to establish your policy details and kick off the process of getting your car fixed up. Who pays for what and how that happens will come later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know what your deductible is, and how it works.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deductible on your policy is a minimum — a dollar amount that you’ll have to pay yourself, with no reimbursement, before your insurer will start paying anything.[aside label='Stay Prepared with KQED Guides' tag='audience-news']An example: Let’s say the deductible on your auto insurance policy is $500. Once you’ve got a quote for repair work after a break-in, those repairs will cost $700. This does not mean your insurer will pay $500 toward these repairs. Instead, this means that if you claim on your insurance for this repair, \u003cem>you’ll\u003c/em> have to pay $500 and your insurer will only pay $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — in this situation you will have to cover the majority of the costs, even though you pay into your auto insurance plan every month for the exact purpose of covering damages to your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her auto repair shop in Berkeley, Sobhani oftenly hears a misconception from customers: Many believe that the deductible is a yearly threshold. But the truth is that you have to cover the deductible every time you make a new claim on your insurance. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, you paid $500 so far this year and so now the next five auto repairs, glass repairs, are free,” said Sobhani. “It is per incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Policies that are cheap to pay for each month (the premium) will nearly always have a high deductible — and conversely, policies with a higher monthly premium usually come with a lower deductible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about my personal items that were stolen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renters’ insurance does cover stolen items from your vehicle,” said Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute. This is when it will be very helpful to have any documentation you have that confirms you purchased the items that were stolen during the break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurers may apply limits on how much they will cover for each personal item you lost. An item might have cost you $500 new, but your insurance policy may only cover that kind of item up to a certain dollar amount. These limits apply to items like electronics, jewelry, furs and cash, says Ruiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A car is parked next to a park. The rear window of the car has been smashed.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with a broken window is seen in San Francisco’s Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Thieves are usually likely to break your back side windows for their convenience and speed. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"costs\">\u003c/a>Get a quote for the cost of repairing your car windows.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the law says that you can choose whichever repair shop you want to do your car’s glass or body repairs. The upside of this is that you can shop around to find the best price. The downside is: You have to spend time shopping around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you first call your insurance provider to report the break-in, you’ll probably get a recommendation of where to get repairs. However, you are not required to choose the default repair service your insurer suggests — whether you’re dissuaded by bad reviews, the price, \u003ca href=\"#replacement\">how long it’ll take for a particular service to source your glass\u003c/a> or you already have a relationship with a local glass-repair shop. (Or really, whatever reason you like — it’s your right, under the law.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a local glass-repair shop and get their quote for your repair work, start by asking around for recommendations or reading reviews online on pages like Yelp or YourMechanic.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Keep in mind: The make and age of your car can impact how much you have to pay or wait for repairs.[/pullquote]You may hear that certain repair shops are “in network” with an insurer. This usually means that this shop frequently works with that insurer to honor insurance claims, has experience in working directly with insurers on processing costs, or is otherwise considered a “partner” with an insurer. Regardless, in California you can still choose whichever repair shop you want to do your glass repairs after a break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible reason a repair shop may not take your insurance is if an insurer’s reimbursement rates are just too low to cover any work done by that shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make a decision on whether to claim on your insurance or not.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve got a cost estimate for glass repairs, keep in mind just how high your deductible will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your deductible is $600, but the repairs will cost $620, this means that your insurance would only pay only $20 even if you made a claim. In these types of situations, where the deductible is overwhelmingly bigger than what your policy will cover, consider what’s more practical for you: dealing with your insurer, or paying for all the expenses yourself out of pocket.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Remember: Policies that are cheap to pay for each month will nearly always have a high deductible.[/pullquote]If you’re suffering multiple break-ins in a year, and each time your deductible is so high as to keep you from claiming on your insurance, you may consider revising your policy details to lower your deductible amount. Unfortunately, this will almost certainly mean higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute, two things can happen if you make multiple claims on your auto or homeowner’s insurance: “Your premiums could go up,” she said, or this could otherwise “signal the insurer that you’re not managing your parking of your vehicle, where you park, your security, etcetera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Insurance claims after a car break-in: Who pays upfront?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some insurance claims, the glass repair shop you choose will be able to bill your insurer for the cost of repairs directly — meaning that, aside from your deductible, you don’t pay anything upfront. This is where the issue of whether you’ve chosen a repair shop that’s “in network” with your insurer may become relevant. This option may prevent you having to pay more up-front, but could potentially take more time, if a shop has to go back-and-forth with your insurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other claims, some customers will pay all costs out of pocket and then work with their insurer afterwards to get reimbursed. This option could mean repairs getting done faster — potentially — but mean far more up-front costs for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to ask your insurer how payment will be handled for your claim, so you don’t get any surprises or an unexpected bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"replacement\">\u003c/a>Be prepared to wait for your glass repairs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If getting your car fixed up as soon as possible is a matter of urgency — for example, because you need your car for work — you may decide to factor in how quickly a shop could repair your glass alongside the issue of cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And depending on what kind of car you have, you could be waiting \u003cem>a while\u003c/em>. Sobhani says that in particular, “the rear windows on the Hyundai and Kia are the ones that have been hardest to get” recently — something she says is in large part \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-kia-tiktok-theft-stolen-8e0a353d24be0e7bce36e34c5e4dac51\">due to a security flaw in those brands that makes stealing them easier\u003c/a>. She also notes that in her experience with customers with brand new cars, the carmakers are “saving what’s available” for cars on the production line. On the other end of the spectrum, “really old cars” can be tough to quickly source glass for, said Sobhani.[aside postID=\"news_11954507\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66630_GettyImages-1369841386-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]Being willing to have your car window repaired with \u003cem>used\u003c/em> glass — rather than new — could also potentially reduce the time it takes to get your vehicle fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have to wait for a glass order, your repair shop may offer to hold onto your car for you until then. “Some of those people choose to just leave their cars here since we have a secure garage,” said Sobhani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If being without your car for several days is not an option, the repair shop will likely be able to seal your car window up with crash wrap. Remember: If you opt to seal up your window yourself, \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> use duct tape or packing tape, which can damage your car paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1680715754872934400\">after the latter’s car got bipped\u003c/a> — sorry Joe!) to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Thieves breaking your car windows — also known as 'bipping' — has become very common in the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California. Experts share what to do if this happens to you.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1693592308,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":69,"wordCount":3577},"headData":{"title":"Car Break-In? From Glass Repair to Insurance Claims, Here's What to Do | KQED","description":"Thieves breaking your car windows — also known as 'bipping' — has become very common in the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California. Experts share what to do if this happens to you.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Car Break-In? From Glass Repair to Insurance Claims, Here's What to Do","datePublished":"2023-08-31T19:00:01.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-01T18:18:28.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#now\">\u003cstrong>Jump to: My car was \u003cem>just\u003c/em> broken into. What should I do right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>If you’ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for any period of time, and you’ve never had your car broken into, you can count yourself among the lucky few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, having your car windows smashed by thieves looking for items to steal feels like a queasy rite of passage for residents. \u003ca href=\"https://kmel.iheart.com/featured/g-biz/content/2022-10-27-this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-your-car-has-been-bipped-too-many-times/\">You might have also heard it unofficially called “bipping.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say somewhere between 50% to 25% of our volume is auto break-ins,” says Ladan Sobhani, the co-owner of Berkeley repair shop Auto Glass Express. In her experience, “it’s not ‘if’, it’s ‘when’ you’ll get your car broken into if you live in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what if you don’t lose any personal belongings? A car break-in will still leave you stuck with broken windows, which could end up being quite expensive depending on your insurance and the level of your deductible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We spoke to auto repair professional Sobhani as well as Janet Ruiz, Director of Strategic Communications at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.iii.org/\">Insurance Information Institute\u003c/a>, about what you need to know about having your car broken into in the Bay Area. So keep reading for advice on:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#now\">\u003cstrong>What to do at the scene of the break-in\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#insurance\">\u003cstrong>How to file an insurance claim\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#driving\">\u003cstrong>Driving around with a broken window\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#replacement\">\u003cstrong>How to find replacement glass ASAP\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#costs\">\u003cstrong>Strategies to potentially reduce repair costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And if you’re looking for strategies to potentially reduce your chances of getting bipped again, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959799/how-to-avoid-a-car-break-in-bay-area\">we also have a guide with some tips that could help keep your car safe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What to do immediately after a car break-in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"now\">\u003c/a>At the scene: Take photos of the damage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You may feel angry or frustrated when you come back to your car and see it’s been broken into. Even if you discover nothing was taken from your car, this experience can feel extremely violating — whether it’s your first or your third break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as you’re able, put aside your emotions temporarily, swing into action and start taking photos of your car with your cell phone. Taking photos of your car, says Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute, is “the first thing you should do whenever you have a loss,” for insurance purposes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11959799","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258763135-1920x1280.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Take as many clear photos of the damage as you can, including from outside the car and inside it too. If it’s dark, make sure to turn on your camera phone’s flash. If your hands are shaking — break-ins can be jarring, especially if it’s your first time — take a pause to calm yourself or ask someone else to take photos for you. You don’t want blurry, unclear photos for your insurance claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempered glass used in car windows usually shatters in a way that doesn’t create jagged, sharp pieces, so your risks of getting cut are low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After you’ve taken photos, don’t stress too much about sweeping up all the broken glass from your back seat, as a glass repair shop will almost certainly be able to vacuum this glass up for you. Of course, if you need to transport passengers back home in your back seat — or have a car seat for a kid back there — you may want to do some brushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you do, just be careful when using any automatic or manual window controls after a break-in. You can accidentally dislodge and spread around even more broken glass doing this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959511\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959511\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in San Francisco lined with Victorian homes and cars. The camera is angled from a lower angle to focus on shards of shattered glass on the floor.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762922-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken car-window-glass pieces are seen by a curb in Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Tempered glass used in car windows usually shatters in a way that doesn’t create jagged, sharp pieces, so your risks of getting cut are low. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the scene: Has your stuff been dumped nearby?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your bags were snatched from your back seat or trunk, there’s a chance that the thieves may have rifled through them and then dumped anything they didn’t deem of value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you feel safe doing so, take a look on the street near your car and on streets nearby — particularly paying attention around bushes, hedges, trash cans and dumpsters — to see if any of your bags or items have been tossed there. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s worth a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">Tell us: What else do you need an explainer on right now?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Some people in the Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-car-break-ins-18273219.php\">make it their mission to unofficially reunite owners with their stolen items\u003c/a> when they find them on the street, like Andrea Carla Michaels of \u003ca href=\"https://lostandfoundsanfranciscocom.godaddysites.com/\">LostandFoundSanFrancisco.com.\u003c/a> You could also check sites like Nextdoor.com, local Facebook groups and subreddits like r/sanfrancisco, r/oakland and r/bayarea to see if anyone has found your stuff and wants to help you reunite with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the scene or after: File a police report.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the thieves are long gone, and you aren’t injured, should you still file a police report? Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, your insurer may require you to have a police report on hand in order to process your claim. Bay Area officials are also encouraging residents to report these crimes. Doing so gives authorities “an idea of where to put our resources,” said San Francisco Police Department Chief Bill Scott at a press conference held on Aug. 24. “We can’t solve problems that we don’t know about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can usually file a police report one of several ways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Call the police non-emergency line (do not call 911 to file a police report).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>File a police report online — and make sure you save a copy for your records.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Call 3-1-1.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Remember: If you live in a different city, you should report the crime to the police department in the city in which the break-in occurred, not the one you live in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also go in-person to a police station to file a report. In San Francisco, you can also ask station officers to check your vehicle for fingerprints. “Please have your car fingerprinted. Sometimes we get evidence,” said SFPD Chief Scott. “It’s hard, but sometimes we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"An urban park surrounded by cars. One of them has a rear window smashed. A police car is parked nearby.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1604388955-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If your car is broken into while you’re visiting a city, remember to file a police report in the city where the theft happened. If you are going to file an insurance claim for the broken glass or your stolen goods, you will most likely have to provide your insurer with a police report. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After: Think if any stolen items could compromise your personal safety or identity.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If documents containing any personal details were stolen, you could be at a higher risk for identity theft. The California Attorney General’s website \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/idtheft/facts/top-ten\">has details on how to monitor your credit for free\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If any credit or debit cards were among items stolen from your car, contact your bank immediately to have them canceled. You may also be prompted to list this theft on your police report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your house keys, entry keycards or garage opener to your building were stolen in a car break-in, you might strongly consider having the locks changed or those keycards wiped. This is especially important if thieves also took anything that would let them know your address, such as your insurance cards or vehicle registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After: If you had items stolen, start tracking down proof you owned them.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies usually won’t just take your word on which items were stolen from your car. You’ll need to prove you actually bought them, with something like a receipt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless you’re \u003cem>incredibly\u003c/em> organized, you might not have a drawer back at home full of receipts for every item of value you’ve ever purchased in your life. The Insurance Information Institute’s Ruiz recommends that you look through your checking account or your credit card statements, which will provide a record of the purchase. You can then take a screenshot of the transaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One tip for the future, says Ruiz, is to make time to do what she calls a “home inventory”: Walk around your home one day and snap photos or videos of everything you own. “Open doors, open closets — go in your garage,” she recommends and particularly focus on getting photos of all your electronics. If you have expensive stereo equipment fitted \u003cem>in\u003c/em> your car, you should photograph that too. These photos will act as a timestamped record you actually owned these items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"driving\">\u003c/a>After: Driving your car with a broken window until you get repairs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving with a broken car window only becomes illegal, \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-vehicle-code/division-12-equipment-of-vehicles/chapter-4-windshields-and-mirrors/section-26710-unlawful-operation-of-motor-vehicle-when-windshield-or-rear-window-in-defective-condition#:~:text=2023%20Legislative%20Session.-,Section%2026710%20%2D%20Unlawful%20operation%20of%20motor%20vehicle%20when%20windshield%20or,to%20the%20front%20or%20rear.\">according to Section 26710 of California’s Vehicle Code\u003c/a>, “when the windshield or rear window is in such a defective condition as to impair the driver’s vision either to the front or rear.” Thieves are usually likely to break your back side windows for their convenience and speed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Remember: After a break-in, be careful using your car’s window controls. You can accidentally dislodge and spread around broken glass doing this.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A repair shop will likely be able to seal up your broken car windows with “crash wrap,” a temporary adhesive film, says auto repair professional Sobhani — especially if you need to wait a little while on new glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you can’t get to a repair shop quickly and want to seal up the window yourself with film, a trash bag or cardboard, Sobhani recommends that you use blue painter’s tape — not duct tape or packing tape, “because that can really damage the paint on the car.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959510\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11959510 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person uses a vacuum to sweep pieces of broken glass from the interior of a car. This is happening inside a car shop.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1298891986-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When you first call your insurance provider to report the break-in, you’ll probably get a recommendation of where to get repairs. However, you are not required to choose the default repair service your insurer suggests — it’s your right, under the law. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Working with your insurance company to get your car windows fixed after a break-in\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"insurance\">\u003c/a>First, know what your policy covers.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After your car gets broken into, there are two types of insurance claims that you could file:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A claim for damages to your car, which is handled by your \u003cstrong>auto insurance\u003c/strong>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A claim for any items stolen from your car in the break-in — that goes to your \u003cstrong>homeowner’s or renter’s insurance\u003c/strong>, if you have one.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As for what your policy actually covers, you’ll need to run that with your insurance provider, either by reading your policy itself or contacting your insurance agent. For example, Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute says that some auto policies will offer broken glass repair as an “extra coverage” (also known as an add-on or endorsement on your policy) so you don’t have to pay a deductible for that specific service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, get in touch with your insurance provider as soon as possible after a break-in, to establish your policy details and kick off the process of getting your car fixed up. Who pays for what and how that happens will come later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Know what your deductible is, and how it works.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deductible on your policy is a minimum — a dollar amount that you’ll have to pay yourself, with no reimbursement, before your insurer will start paying anything.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Stay Prepared with KQED Guides ","tag":"audience-news"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An example: Let’s say the deductible on your auto insurance policy is $500. Once you’ve got a quote for repair work after a break-in, those repairs will cost $700. This does not mean your insurer will pay $500 toward these repairs. Instead, this means that if you claim on your insurance for this repair, \u003cem>you’ll\u003c/em> have to pay $500 and your insurer will only pay $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes — in this situation you will have to cover the majority of the costs, even though you pay into your auto insurance plan every month for the exact purpose of covering damages to your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her auto repair shop in Berkeley, Sobhani oftenly hears a misconception from customers: Many believe that the deductible is a yearly threshold. But the truth is that you have to cover the deductible every time you make a new claim on your insurance. “It’s not like, ‘Oh, you paid $500 so far this year and so now the next five auto repairs, glass repairs, are free,” said Sobhani. “It is per incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember: Policies that are cheap to pay for each month (the premium) will nearly always have a high deductible — and conversely, policies with a higher monthly premium usually come with a lower deductible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about my personal items that were stolen?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renters’ insurance does cover stolen items from your vehicle,” said Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute. This is when it will be very helpful to have any documentation you have that confirms you purchased the items that were stolen during the break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some insurers may apply limits on how much they will cover for each personal item you lost. An item might have cost you $500 new, but your insurance policy may only cover that kind of item up to a certain dollar amount. These limits apply to items like electronics, jewelry, furs and cash, says Ruiz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A car is parked next to a park. The rear window of the car has been smashed.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1258762861-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with a broken window is seen in San Francisco’s Alamo Square on June 16, 2023. Thieves are usually likely to break your back side windows for their convenience and speed. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"costs\">\u003c/a>Get a quote for the cost of repairing your car windows.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the law says that you can choose whichever repair shop you want to do your car’s glass or body repairs. The upside of this is that you can shop around to find the best price. The downside is: You have to spend time shopping around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you first call your insurance provider to report the break-in, you’ll probably get a recommendation of where to get repairs. However, you are not required to choose the default repair service your insurer suggests — whether you’re dissuaded by bad reviews, the price, \u003ca href=\"#replacement\">how long it’ll take for a particular service to source your glass\u003c/a> or you already have a relationship with a local glass-repair shop. (Or really, whatever reason you like — it’s your right, under the law.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find a local glass-repair shop and get their quote for your repair work, start by asking around for recommendations or reading reviews online on pages like Yelp or YourMechanic.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Keep in mind: The make and age of your car can impact how much you have to pay or wait for repairs.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>You may hear that certain repair shops are “in network” with an insurer. This usually means that this shop frequently works with that insurer to honor insurance claims, has experience in working directly with insurers on processing costs, or is otherwise considered a “partner” with an insurer. Regardless, in California you can still choose whichever repair shop you want to do your glass repairs after a break-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possible reason a repair shop may not take your insurance is if an insurer’s reimbursement rates are just too low to cover any work done by that shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make a decision on whether to claim on your insurance or not.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you’ve got a cost estimate for glass repairs, keep in mind just how high your deductible will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your deductible is $600, but the repairs will cost $620, this means that your insurance would only pay only $20 even if you made a claim. In these types of situations, where the deductible is overwhelmingly bigger than what your policy will cover, consider what’s more practical for you: dealing with your insurer, or paying for all the expenses yourself out of pocket.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Remember: Policies that are cheap to pay for each month will nearly always have a high deductible.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If you’re suffering multiple break-ins in a year, and each time your deductible is so high as to keep you from claiming on your insurance, you may consider revising your policy details to lower your deductible amount. Unfortunately, this will almost certainly mean higher premiums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ruiz from the Insurance Information Institute, two things can happen if you make multiple claims on your auto or homeowner’s insurance: “Your premiums could go up,” she said, or this could otherwise “signal the insurer that you’re not managing your parking of your vehicle, where you park, your security, etcetera.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Insurance claims after a car break-in: Who pays upfront?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With some insurance claims, the glass repair shop you choose will be able to bill your insurer for the cost of repairs directly — meaning that, aside from your deductible, you don’t pay anything upfront. This is where the issue of whether you’ve chosen a repair shop that’s “in network” with your insurer may become relevant. This option may prevent you having to pay more up-front, but could potentially take more time, if a shop has to go back-and-forth with your insurer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With other claims, some customers will pay all costs out of pocket and then work with their insurer afterwards to get reimbursed. This option could mean repairs getting done faster — potentially — but mean far more up-front costs for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be sure to ask your insurer how payment will be handled for your claim, so you don’t get any surprises or an unexpected bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"replacement\">\u003c/a>Be prepared to wait for your glass repairs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If getting your car fixed up as soon as possible is a matter of urgency — for example, because you need your car for work — you may decide to factor in how quickly a shop could repair your glass alongside the issue of cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And depending on what kind of car you have, you could be waiting \u003cem>a while\u003c/em>. Sobhani says that in particular, “the rear windows on the Hyundai and Kia are the ones that have been hardest to get” recently — something she says is in large part \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hyundai-kia-tiktok-theft-stolen-8e0a353d24be0e7bce36e34c5e4dac51\">due to a security flaw in those brands that makes stealing them easier\u003c/a>. She also notes that in her experience with customers with brand new cars, the carmakers are “saving what’s available” for cars on the production line. On the other end of the spectrum, “really old cars” can be tough to quickly source glass for, said Sobhani.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11954507","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66630_GettyImages-1369841386-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Being willing to have your car window repaired with \u003cem>used\u003c/em> glass — rather than new — could also potentially reduce the time it takes to get your vehicle fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have to wait for a glass order, your repair shop may offer to hold onto your car for you until then. “Some of those people choose to just leave their cars here since we have a secure garage,” said Sobhani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If being without your car for several days is not an option, the repair shop will likely be able to seal your car window up with crash wrap. Remember: If you opt to seal up your window yourself, \u003cem>don’t\u003c/em> use duct tape or packing tape, which can damage your car paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1680715754872934400\">after the latter’s car got bipped\u003c/a> — sorry Joe!) to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11959477/car-break-ins-bay-area-glass-repair-what-to-do","authors":["3243","11867"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_33103","news_32949","news_33102","news_33101","news_33105","news_22562","news_33104","news_17626","news_27626","news_26702","news_4500"],"featImg":"news_11958472","label":"news"},"news_11956602":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11956602","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11956602","score":null,"sort":[1690414932000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"berkeley-approves-license-plate-reader-cameras-despite-privacy-concerns","title":"Berkeley Approves License Plate Reader Cameras Despite Privacy Concerns","publishDate":1690414932,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Berkeley Approves License Plate Reader Cameras Despite Privacy Concerns | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted 6–1 on Tuesday night to install 52 license plate scanners on street lights throughout the city to address rising auto theft, return stolen vehicles and deter other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill\">California is simultaneously seeking to pilot speeding cameras in six cities across the state\u003c/a>, including three in the Bay Area. But privacy advocates and some residents are wary of the surveillance technology, questioning its effectiveness and how the immense amount of data captured by the scanners could be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is insufficient evidence at this point to say that yes, this will solve our crime problems,” said Hansel Aguilar, director of the city’s Police Accountability Board. “Vehicle theft was the most clear (application) with this, but even with that, the evidence is mixed on its potential and effectiveness to prevent auto vehicle thefts.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hansel Aguilar, director, Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board\"]‘We should, with any surveillance technology, just be mindful of its promises and make sure we manage our expectations as a community.’[/pullquote]Berkeley Police have been pushing for the cameras, which will operate under a two-year pilot program and city leaders will evaluate after whether they should continue using them. Berkeley Police Department will begin installing the devices this fall, and exact locations have not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that good data in, lends itself to good data out, and we are now working to accomplish that,” said Jessica Perry, public relations officer for the Berkeley Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say that the license plate readers can increase the likelihood and speed at which police can identify drivers who pose a risk to street safety or who are wanted for other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 733 stolen vehicles have been reported in Berkeley so far this year, a 67% increase from a year ago, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bpd-transparency-initiative-berkeleypd.hub.arcgis.com/pages/crimes\">police department data\u003c/a>. On the whole, crime reports in Berkeley are up 15% compared to last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approved pilot program will require an initial setup cost of $250,000 and it will cost an estimated $175,000 annually to maintain the devices.[aside postID=\"news_11956244,news_11927758,news_11929172\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Berkeley already has some scanners installed on parking enforcement vehicles, \u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em> reports, and several law enforcement agencies in Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-118/summary.html\">already use some amount of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Berkeley also approved the use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/06/15/berkeley-surveillance-cameras\">10 fixed surveillance cameras\u003c/a> to be placed on city intersections to help identify other crimes, like thefts and shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville has seen a 33% dip in auto thefts since the city approved of the scanners in 2019, Berkeley Police Sgt. Joseph Ledoux said at a City Council Public Safety Committee meeting in June. But members of the Police Accountability Board questioned the statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number could be misleading, because the period where that decrease occurred was before some of the ALPRs were installed,” said Aguilar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board voted against the cameras in June. Members were not convinced that privacy risks would outweigh any benefits from the added surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should, with any surveillance technology, just be mindful of its promises and make sure we manage our expectations as a community,” Aguilar said. “I know a lot of people are concerned about these reported crime trends and I don’t want the police department to be put in a situation where we treat any tool as a magic bullet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union echoed their concerns with the technology and wrote a letter to Berkeley City Council ahead of Tuesday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ALPR systems represent a massive expansion of surveillance that frequently do not bring commensurate public safety benefits. Rather, in many circumstances, this technology causes more harm than good,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to data privacy concerns, ACLU wrote that technologies like ALPRs are often deployed in disadvantaged neighborhoods and could disproportionately punish residents in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ALPR systems are easily misused to harm marginalized communities,” the ACLU wrote. “As with other surveillance technologies, police often deploy license plate readers in poor and historically overpoliced areas, regardless of crime rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director of Oakland Privacy, a citizens’ coalition that advocates for the regulation of surveillance technology, worries that the data collected by the scanners is susceptible to data breaches, and she’s skeptical over how the tool could prevent most types of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard people saying it will prevent gun violence and a number of other things that it in very practical terms won’t do … So we have a situation where we’re using municipal resources for something that may not be able to deliver what people are being promised,” said Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we really want the government tracking everywhere that our cars go and putting it into a cloud database online? These cloud databases can be leaky, things get hacked,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg similarly has concerns with a statewide speed camera pilot program that is currently working its way through the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, AB 645, would allow San Francisco, Oakland and San José to pilot an automated speed camera system, along with Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it can help deter pedestrian accidents and other road collisions. Funding collected from speeding tickets, which can run from $50 to $500 depending on the violation, would be earmarked for street infrastructure improvement projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics like Rosenberg say that cities should first invest in infrastructure improvement, violence prevention programs, and building better roads, which can improve traffic and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed to how cities like Oakland and Richmond have used license plate scanners for years, but continue to battle many of the same challenges as Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these readers really stop and prevent crime,” she said, “then why on earth haven’t they been working in those cities?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Rachael Myrow contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Berkeley Police have been pushing for the scanners to help fight rising reports of auto theft.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1690479589,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1028},"headData":{"title":"Berkeley Approves License Plate Reader Cameras Despite Privacy Concerns | KQED","description":"Berkeley Police have been pushing for the scanners to help fight rising reports of auto theft.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Berkeley Approves License Plate Reader Cameras Despite Privacy Concerns","datePublished":"2023-07-26T23:42:12.000Z","dateModified":"2023-07-27T17:39:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11956602/berkeley-approves-license-plate-reader-cameras-despite-privacy-concerns","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted 6–1 on Tuesday night to install 52 license plate scanners on street lights throughout the city to address rising auto theft, return stolen vehicles and deter other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision comes as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill\">California is simultaneously seeking to pilot speeding cameras in six cities across the state\u003c/a>, including three in the Bay Area. But privacy advocates and some residents are wary of the surveillance technology, questioning its effectiveness and how the immense amount of data captured by the scanners could be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is insufficient evidence at this point to say that yes, this will solve our crime problems,” said Hansel Aguilar, director of the city’s Police Accountability Board. “Vehicle theft was the most clear (application) with this, but even with that, the evidence is mixed on its potential and effectiveness to prevent auto vehicle thefts.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We should, with any surveillance technology, just be mindful of its promises and make sure we manage our expectations as a community.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Hansel Aguilar, director, Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berkeley Police have been pushing for the cameras, which will operate under a two-year pilot program and city leaders will evaluate after whether they should continue using them. Berkeley Police Department will begin installing the devices this fall, and exact locations have not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that good data in, lends itself to good data out, and we are now working to accomplish that,” said Jessica Perry, public relations officer for the Berkeley Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say that the license plate readers can increase the likelihood and speed at which police can identify drivers who pose a risk to street safety or who are wanted for other serious crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 733 stolen vehicles have been reported in Berkeley so far this year, a 67% increase from a year ago, according to \u003ca href=\"https://bpd-transparency-initiative-berkeleypd.hub.arcgis.com/pages/crimes\">police department data\u003c/a>. On the whole, crime reports in Berkeley are up 15% compared to last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approved pilot program will require an initial setup cost of $250,000 and it will cost an estimated $175,000 annually to maintain the devices.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11956244,news_11927758,news_11929172","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Berkeley already has some scanners installed on parking enforcement vehicles, \u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em> reports, and several law enforcement agencies in Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2019-118/summary.html\">already use some amount of automated license plate readers (ALPRs)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Berkeley also approved the use of \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/06/15/berkeley-surveillance-cameras\">10 fixed surveillance cameras\u003c/a> to be placed on city intersections to help identify other crimes, like thefts and shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville has seen a 33% dip in auto thefts since the city approved of the scanners in 2019, Berkeley Police Sgt. Joseph Ledoux said at a City Council Public Safety Committee meeting in June. But members of the Police Accountability Board questioned the statistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number could be misleading, because the period where that decrease occurred was before some of the ALPRs were installed,” said Aguilar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board voted against the cameras in June. Members were not convinced that privacy risks would outweigh any benefits from the added surveillance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should, with any surveillance technology, just be mindful of its promises and make sure we manage our expectations as a community,” Aguilar said. “I know a lot of people are concerned about these reported crime trends and I don’t want the police department to be put in a situation where we treat any tool as a magic bullet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union echoed their concerns with the technology and wrote a letter to Berkeley City Council ahead of Tuesday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ALPR systems represent a massive expansion of surveillance that frequently do not bring commensurate public safety benefits. Rather, in many circumstances, this technology causes more harm than good,” the letter reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to data privacy concerns, ACLU wrote that technologies like ALPRs are often deployed in disadvantaged neighborhoods and could disproportionately punish residents in those areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ALPR systems are easily misused to harm marginalized communities,” the ACLU wrote. “As with other surveillance technologies, police often deploy license plate readers in poor and historically overpoliced areas, regardless of crime rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Rosenberg, advocacy director of Oakland Privacy, a citizens’ coalition that advocates for the regulation of surveillance technology, worries that the data collected by the scanners is susceptible to data breaches, and she’s skeptical over how the tool could prevent most types of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard people saying it will prevent gun violence and a number of other things that it in very practical terms won’t do … So we have a situation where we’re using municipal resources for something that may not be able to deliver what people are being promised,” said Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we really want the government tracking everywhere that our cars go and putting it into a cloud database online? 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