{"id":26603,"date":"2025-11-06T12:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26603\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:35:09","slug":"philadelphia-police-launch-new-campaign-to-cut-down-on-high-tech-auto-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/26603\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police launch new campaign to cut down on high-tech auto thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia police will kick off a major new campaign Thursday to help protect your car from theft.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say car theft has gone high-tech, where thieves will hack and reprogram your car&#8217;s key fob, or a different key fob that they can match to your car.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;Together, We Can Prevent Auto Theft&#8221; campaign, officers will be going door-to-door in areas they&#8217;ve identified as hot spots for vehicle theft.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Philadelphia will livestream a 10 a.m. news conference about the campaign. You can watch it live in the player above, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/cbsphilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">or on our YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4am-to-8-am-clean-aircheck-251106-frame-255942.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"4am-to-8-am-clean-aircheck-251106-frame-255942.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  2025 numbers are to date.<\/p>\n<p>They want to teach car owners about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/washington-township-car-thefts-camden-philadelphia\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">best, practical ways to protect their vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/auto-theft-ring-richard-mendez-nj\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS News Philadelphia reported on a spike in car thefts<\/a>, with nearly 24,000 vehicles stolen in just one year.<\/p>\n<p>The number dropped to about 15,800 in 2024. This year, about 14,000 vehicles have been stolen, up 3% from this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>One way to cut down on car thefts is to go old school. Officers will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-police-giving-away-free-wheel-locks-to-protect-your-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">handing out steering wheel locks<\/a> to car owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police will kick off a major new campaign Thursday to help protect your car from theft. Investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17455,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-26603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-auto-theft","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}