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August 12, 2008 - What happens in
Vegas, stays in Vegas, according to the city's promotions -- but that
might not apply to your car.
A survey released on Tuesday by the National
Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) showed that Las Vegas is the metro area
with the highest rate of vehicle theft in the United States.
In second place came Stockton, California, followed
by Visalia-Porterville, California, and Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale in
Arizona.
Modesto, California, which topped the list for three
consecutive years as the area with the worst per capita vehicle theft
rate, fell to the number five position.
"As in 2005, the western United States still ranks
as the area of the country with the highest auto theft rates. All of
the nation's top ten areas are in the west with five of them in
California," the NICB said in a statement.
The NICB said in 2006, 22,441 vehicles were stolen
in Las Vegas-Paradise which gave it the highest theft rate. The rate
is determined by the number of theft per 100,000 inhabitants.
The NICB said it reviewed data supplied by the
National Crime Information Center for each of the nation's 361
metropolitan statistical areas for its annual vehicle theft survey.
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