“Multiple cars on our block were burglarized last night,” reports one reader. The block includes the stretch of 92nd Avenue Northeast between Fifth Avenue and Roosevelt Way.
“Somebody broke into our cars and took everything they found, not sure how they did it without the alarm on my Nissan going off,” another neighbor wrote to the block’s e-mail alert list, adding that a tool box and iPods are missing from others’ cars and “we are still not sure what else they took because everything in our cars was all messed up.”
Neighbors are urging anyone who is a victim of a car prowl to submit a police report. Officers say the best way to do that is by calling 206-625-5011 unless it’s an emergency, in which case call 9-1-1.
A car prowl is when a car is broken into and possessions stolen. Our news partners at The Seattle Times had a story on this epidemic last year. Police say “you are more likely to be a victim of a vehicle crime than any other crime reported to the Seattle Police Department.” The department has a page of tips of ways to make your car more difficult to prowl.
Car prowls are different from auto theft, where the entire vehicle is stolen.
Wonder how effective proper lighting and motion lighting is in deterring prowlers? Driving through the 'hood at night it seems like no one has proper exterior lighting on at night.
Our neighbor's car was broken into up on 95th the night before…