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Twenty stolen cars and car parts recovered in Oakland on Oct. 17. <\/p>\n
OAKLAND, Calif. – Car thefts across California are down for the second year in a row, the California Highway Patrol reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
As reported in CHP\u2019s\u00a02025 Vehicle Theft Fact Sheet<\/a>, thieves stole over 133,000 vehicles across California in 2025, and while that number may seem high, it represents a 25% decline from the 176,230 cars stolen in 2024.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The statewide rate of theft in 2025 equates to roughly one car every four minutes.<\/p>\n “Vehicle theft is not a victimless crime. It fuels organized criminal activity and creates hardship for families across California,” CHP Commissioner Sean Duryee said in a press release. The CHP remains committed to holding offenders accountable, recovering stolen vehicles and working with our law enforcement partners to make our communities safer.”<\/p>\n Of the 133,372 cars stolen across California last year, 84% were recovered \u2014 111,661. More than half of those were returned to their owners in drivable condition.<\/p>\n Car thefts first started to decline in 2024,\u00a0which marked the first year-over-year decrease since 2019.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Governor Gavin Newsom that year deployed CHP officers to work alongside local law enforcement agencies to focus on crimes occurring in specific regions: Bakersfield, San Bernardino and Oakland, which helped reduce car thefts and other crimes in those communities.<\/p>\n Newsom in August 2025 expanded that program by deploying additional CHP teams to high-crime areas across the state.<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Several of the counties that were targeted saw marked reductions in vehicle thefts between 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n Alameda County: 12,277 thefts, down 36.1%Kern County: 4,258 thefts, down 31.4%\u00a0San Bernardino: 7,759 thefts, down 23.3%San Diego: 8,023 thefts, down 25.7%Sacramento: 5,061 thefts, down 23% <\/p>\n Even with rates declining, law enforcement encourages drivers to take precautions that will help prevent auto thefts, including parking in well-lit areas, removing or hiding valuables, locking all doors, using an alarm or anti-theft device, reporting suspicious activity, and not leaving a car unattended while the engine is running.<\/p>\n The Source: California Highway Patrol<\/p>\n California Highway Patrol<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Twenty stolen cars and car parts recovered in Oakland on Oct. 17. OAKLAND, Calif. – Car thefts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,852,2042,100,1768],"class_list":["post-417148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}