Despite changing theft trends, due partly to an influx in suspicious activity around the holidays, La Cañada crimes in 2015 were on par with last year's figures and down significantly from counts taken five years ago, safety officials reported Tuesday.
With iOS 8, Apple made its so-called said "kill switch" active by default, in accordance with California regulation, and that should help the rates of theft continue to trend downwards.
He said he believed headlight thefts were just the latest trend among organized auto theft rings, which the county has aggressively prosecuted since 1998.
While the prolonged decline in burglary is not dissimilar to that which has been identified for the US, the trend in theft from vehicles appears anomalous.
According to Jim Langley, a California-based technical editor of Bicycling magazine, "Among kids who've once been the victims of bike theft, there's a trend toward cheap bikes or wrapping electrical tape around parts of a good bike so it looks like a clunker". When it comes to finding a safe place to ride a bike, there's fairly good news.
The break-in was part of a recent trend of thefts, some involving violence, of a seemingly plentiful material.
The latest crime trend showed thefts spiking to 52 in the last week, with some of the investigations having already resulted in arrests, Glendale Police Lt. Rodney Brooks said.
Fighting back against image theft is becoming a common trend among photographers who share their content online and via social media.
There is less drunken driving, too; many erstwhile hot rodders are now aging baby boomers, and the trend in auto theft, like other crimes, has been downward.
Even the growing global trend of identity theft did not escape Davos-goers.
