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Car owners in San Francisco 'are leaving their trunks OPEN to avoid having windows...'

• https://www.dailymail.co, By SNEJANA FARBEROV

Vehicle break-ins in San Francisco have become so commonplace over the past year that some desperate car owners have resorted to leaving their trunks open to avoid having the windows smashed by thieves. 

A recent photo taken in San Francisco showed two SUVs parked side by side with their trunks ajar and no one inside the vehicles. 

A similar trend also has been observed in Oakland, which has seen a spike in car break-ins and auto thefts as part of a larger crime wave that has engulfed the Bay Area, with homicides, assaults and thefts all skyrocketing.  

'Imagine having to clean out your car and leaving it open in public, just so people won't break your windows. Oakland we looking sad man,' another witness who it happen wrote on social media.

'It doesn't really surprise me,' said Oakland's Interim Deputy Police Chief Drennon Lindsey. 

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who earlier slashed $120million from the budgets of the city's police and sheriff's departments in response to demands from Black Lives Matter activists, on Tuesday announced she was asking the city's Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out drug dealing, car break-ins and theft. 


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