Show-Me Rising Vehicle Crime: Here's How Many Cars Have Been Stolen So Far . . .

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This might be yet another reason why moving the baseball stadium closer to population centers might not be a great idea.

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"Vehicle crime has its roots in every other crime. Maybe we should start looking into some more full-time resources towards auto theft enforcement?” Corporal Nate Bradley with the Missouri Highway Patrol said. “Nobody ever thinks it's going to happen to them. It's like everything else in this world. Oh, it's not going to happen to me until it does, and then what do you do?"

So far this year in Missouri, Bradley said there have been nearly 15,000 car thefts.

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'It's a daily occurrence': Missouri seeing tens of thousands of car thefts each year

More than 30,000 cars were stolen in the state last year.