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Not surprisingly, crimes like this aren’t happening all that much in places where demoncraps aren’t in charge of the goobermint<\/p>\n

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Carjackings in cities like NYC, Philadelphia jump over 200% \u2013 often with kids behind the wheel, officials say.<\/a><\/p>\n

Carjackings have skyrocketed<\/a>\u00a0200% \u2014 or more \u2014 in multiple big cities across the county in past years, as\u00a0law enforcement officials and crime experts<\/a>\u00a0pleaded with lawmakers on Tuesday for help addressing the rampant issue, with one official warning: “Anyone in a car is a potential victim.”<\/p>\n

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“The primary goal is to do our best to ensure that no one has a gun in their face demanding their car in the first place.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dallas Police Chief Edgardo “Eddie” Garcia, to Fox News Digital<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Law enforcement executives and officials from crime monitoring agencies from across the country convened on Capitol Hill on Tuesday morning to testify\u00a0before the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>\u00a0for a hearing to address the startling trends related to carjackings. During his time at the microphone, National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) president and CEO David Glawe revealed some cities saw carjacking upticks as high as more than 280% between 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n

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Carjackings have soared by 286% in New York City<\/a>\u00a0from 2019 to 2021, while\u00a0Philadelphia saw the<\/a>\u00a0second-highest increase, with 238, the NICB found. Chicago followed with the third-highest increase, 207%, from 2019 to 2021, then Washington, D.C. with a 200% increase and New Orleans with 159%,\u00a0Glawe told lawmakers<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“A disturbing subplot to these bleak numbers is that many carjackings are often committed in furtherance of other serious violent crimes, and many carjackings are committed by juveniles are committed by juveniles \u2014 some as young as 11 years old,” Glawe explained.<\/p>\n

Glawe was joined by Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart, Metropolitan Family Services executive director Vaughn Bryant, Alliance for Automotive Innovation president and CEO John Bozzella, former U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and Dallas Police Department Chief Edgardo “Eddie” Garcia.<\/p>\n

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Garcia, who also spoke on behalf of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, testified that the increase in carjackings is being driven by certain factors, such as financial gain and to further other violent criminal activity.<\/p>\n

“Many of these carjackings are also committed by juveniles seeking to gain notoriety on social media or as part of gang initiations,” he said.<\/p>\n

He pointed to reluctant prosecutors and judges who “continue to release violent and repeat offenders pretrial,” and noted that the challenges also apply to juvenile offenders.<\/p>\n

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