(Click on the image for Scott MacFarland's News4 report)
We have the same kind of crime as in D.C.- An average of more than 80 items are stolen from cars in Washington, D.C., each day.
- Thefts from vehicles in the District in 2018 include nearly 6,000 stolen handbags and purses.
- Thieves are targeting items left visible inside cars, including bags, clothes and papers tossed on passenger seats.
- Nearly 3,000 thefts of portable electronics in D.C. from cars in 2018. The records also list approximately 2,800 computer hardware thefts and nearly 2,400 thefts of clothes from parked cars last year.
- Other frequently stolen items included identity documents, credit cards, cash and tools.