The Crime Commission will accept the information, turn it over to law enforcement authorities, and assign the caller a code number.
Callers never have to provide their identity.
They are so widespread and so bold that their existence is often common knowledge on the street. We hope to use that against them. Stolen vehicles often bring more for their parts then they do if sold intact, making chop shops a key component of the car-theft crime economy. More than 20,000 cars are stolen annually in Philadelphia, and only about eight percent of those cases result in arrests. Philadelphia's auto theft rate is three times the national average and nearly twice the average of New York City's.