Carjacking usually involves physical violence to the victim, or using the victim as a hostage. In rare cases, carjacking may also involve sexual assault. [3] The word is a portmanteau of car and hijacking.

Jun 20, 2021 · In Washington, D.C., in March, an Uber Eats driver on a delivery near the city's baseball stadium died after a struggle with two girls trying to take his car. The two girls, who have both accepted...

Jan 15, 2022 · PHILADELPHIA CARJACKERS SHOT BY LEGALLY ARMED DRIVERS 3 SEPARATE TIMES SO FAR IN 2022. Meanwhile, Chicago Police have received 70 reports of carjackings year-to-date as of Thursday, and have...

Dec 25, 2024 · Crime has been dropping, nationally — but car jackings remain higher than before the pandemic. A new study analyzes the data on this crime, which may have finally peaked in 2024. ARI SHAPIRO,...

Jan 23, 2025 · Carjackings are violent felony offenses. A study of recent crime trends shows that carjackings have increased by 89% since 2018. Although these numbers are much lower than in the 1990s, the recent increase has been alarming, especially in large cities. More than half of carjackings involve a firearm and more than a quarter result in harm to a ...

Sep 30, 2022 · About one in four (26%) nonfatal carjackings resulted in victim injury. Offenders in nonfatal carjackings were more likely to be strangers to the victim (64%) than known to the victim (26%). Males were as likely as females to experience nonfatal carjackings (0.12 per 1,000 each) .

Criminologist Bruce Jacobs has spoken to carjackers in detail about their crimes. Here’s what he’s learned in two decades of study. Almost as long as there have been cars, there have been carjackings — thefts of occupied automobiles committed through force, or threat of force.

Jan 23, 2022 · Carjackings have risen dramatically over the past two years in some of America’s biggest cities. Just outside Chicago, a state senator’s car and other valuables were taken at gunpoint in...

Oct 17, 2018 · Though men are, statistically speaking, more likely to become victims of carjackings, carjackings can happen to any driver, at any time. Here’s what to do — and what not to do — should you ever find yourself in such a frightening situation.

Dec 8, 2021 · Two 19-year-old men from Washington, DC were sentenced last week for committing a series of armed carjackings across the District of Columbia within a 12-hour period last year. Authorities say...