Durbin Presses Division of Transportation, Auto Business to Take Coordinated Motion to Deal with Carjackings

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is urgent the Biden Administration, automobile producers, and regulation enforcement teams to work collectively to forestall and reply to the current surge in carjackings. In two letters despatched to the Division of Transportation (DOT) and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Durbin urged the event of uniform requirements for swift regulation enforcement entry to automobile location monitoring information in carjacking incidents.

“Whereas addressing this rising downside requires motion by a spread of presidency, regulation enforcement, trade, and neighborhood stakeholders, the Division of Transportation can play a key function in selling higher coordination between automobile producers and regulation enforcement,” Durbin wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “Particularly, I urge the Division to work with the auto trade and regulation enforcement to coordinate uniform and standardized strategies for regulation enforcement to hunt automobile producers’ help in finding stolen autos.”

Durbin went on to element how the present procedures for regulation enforcement businesses to entry data from auto producers about carjacked autos differ extensively throughout the trade, which regularly ends in pointless delays that impression regulation enforcement’s potential to successfully examine and fight these crimes.

In a letter to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, Durbin argues that the alarming improve in carjackings across the nation underscores the necessity for trade coordination and public-private partnership to forestall and reply to those crimes.

“The auto trade should do extra to offer regulation enforcement with the instruments they should fight carjacking,” Durbin wrote. “Creating uniform trade procedures to make it simpler for regulation enforcement to contact producers and entry beneficial location information on stolen autos can be an necessary first step… and I’m ready to assist this effort in any approach I can.”

Throughout a December Judiciary Committee subject listening to in Chicago, Durbin requested U.S. Legal professional John Lausch what particular steps his workplace is taking along side native regulation enforcement to fight carjackings.  Durbin went on to echo Prepare dinner County Sheriff Tom Dart’s appeals to automotive producers to offer further instruments to analyze these crimes.

Learn the complete textual content of the letters to DOT and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation on the Committee on the Judiciary.