{"id":12335,"date":"2025-06-25T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12335\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:21:13","slug":"where-are-cars-being-stolen-in-uptown-san-diego-see-the-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/12335\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are cars being stolen in Uptown San Diego? See the hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a sinking feeling: Coming back to where you parked your car and finding\u2026 an empty parking space.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see exactly where vehicle thefts are reported? Read on.<\/p>\n<p>Among crimes recorded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/c24d611442564023af92f42759ee5c42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>, many non-violent issues fall into the category of property crimes. Among those, the department consistently reports several hundred vehicle thefts each month. The citywide trend looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vehicle-theft-citywide-4-year-trend-6_24_2025-4_04_53-PM-scaled.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vehicle-theft-citywide-4-year-trend-6_24_2025-4_04_53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325930\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uptown car thefts<\/p>\n<p>In the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/data\/2025\/05\/19\/neighborhood-city-services-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community planning districts across uptown<\/a>, the vehicle theft trend looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vehicle-theft-uptown-4-year-trend-6_24_2025-4_40_58-PM-scaled.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Vehicle-theft-uptown-4-year-trend-6_24_2025-4_40_58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325963\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of reported vehicle thefts locally appears to hit a low around the beginning of each year. So, what has been happening so far this year?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Crime reports:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/data\/2025\/06\/17\/assaults-uptown-san-diego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s where assaults are reported uptown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a map of uptown vehicle theft reports for 2025 so far. (As of this story, the data shows from the beginning of January through the end of May.)<\/p>\n<p>And to keep that in perspective, here\u2019s a map of reports for all of San Diego for the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">Have you had a car stolen, or noticed a crime trend? Let us know at <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/data\/2025\/06\/24\/uptown-auto-theft-maps\/mailto:data@timesofsandiego.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data@timesofsandiego.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neighborhoods go by many names, and San Diego has many of them!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/data\/2025\/05\/19\/neighborhood-city-services-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here\u2019s how we break them down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a sinking feeling: Coming back to where you parked your car and finding\u2026 an empty parking space.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,10505,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-12335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-exclude-homepage","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114741620491386238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}