Crime & Safety

Poll: Do You Lock Your Car Doors?

As vehicle burglaries continue, especially to unlocked cars, are you locking your doors?

Despite frequent pleas from the Maplewood Police Department for residents to , weekly police blotters continue to report incidents where locals have had belongings robbed from their unlocked cars. 

Just last week (on Nov. 20), a wallet containing credit cards was removed from an unlocked vehicle overnight on Elmwood Avenue. That same night, a GPS unit was stolen from a car on Baldwin Road.

This phenomenon is not particular to Maplewood. Police in Millburn have become so frustrated after a spate of thefts from vehicles that they released a list of — locking car doors was one of them.

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Do you lock your doors? Take our poll and give us your opinions in the comments section.

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