I cannot imagine a worse feeling than parking your car and coming back to an empty space.  Overall, car theft in the United States declined almost 9% in 2007. (National Insurance Crime Bureau, NICB) The preliminary 2008 crime data released by the FBI in January 2009 indicate that 2008 will be the fifth consecutive year of declines in motor vehicle theft. The NICB says that motor vehicle theft fell 12.6 percent from 2007 to 2008, the largest single-year percentage decrease since 1999. This downward trend is very good news for insurance companies, and ultimately, for all of us.  Hopefully this trend is translating into lower premiums for our comprehensive coverage.  But cars are still being swiped.