>In the past, it particularly plagued construction sites. - thefts of
>tools, lumber and machinery were a near universal problem.
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>When and where has that not plagued construction sites?
But that is reportedly increasing too:
Nationwide, the Insurance Services Office reports a 20 percent annual increase in the value of equipment being stolen. The National Equipment Register, a database of stolen construction and farm equipment, received 4,000 theft reports in 2003. A year later that figure was up 25 percent. Blythe says the CICPP typically receives one or two reports of stolen large-scale equipment (generators, forklifts, etc.) a year. In the first six months of 2005, however, her organization received four. "The number of thefts and the dollar amounts being reported are increasing," she says. "These people are not getting caught, so they are just getting bolder and bolder."
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