Vehicle Crime Prevention

• One of the most important factors in deterring auto crimes is being selective in where you park your car. Park in well lighted and well populated areas.
• Lock your car. This may seem obvious, but you wouldn't believe the number of people that forget.
• Traffic flow is also important. You want to park your car in the areas with high vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
• Car alarms, can be useful, but are sometimes ignored.
• Install a kill switch and use a club-type device to protect your car, in addition to your alarm.
• Steering column sleeves are helpful in preventing car theft where cracking the column is necessary.
• Avoid heavily tinted windows. Tinted windows provide extra coverage for thieves who break into cars to steal radios, air bags, or the car itself.
• Keep you car free of ALL items. Clothes, bags, boxes, sporting equipment and other items frequently left in cars, attract a thief's attention.
• Thieves will break into a car to look into boxes or bags in order to see if they contain anything of value.
• Have your vehicle identification number etched in your car's glass. This helps deter theft. Re-tagging a stolen vehicle is too expensive if all the windows need to be replaced.
• Any one of the above methods is no guarantee that your car will never be stolen or broken into. However, using as many of these devices as possible deters a "car shopper" and they are more likely to pass up your vehicle.