Copper wire thieves face tall order with new street light wiring Crews fix wiring on a street light at the intersection of Lamb and Charleston boulevards on Monday, April 8, 2024.

Repairs to street lights due to copper wire theft cost the City of St. Paul about $1.2 million in 2023. In 2024, repairs cost more than $2 million, according to Kershaw.

Currently, close to 10%, or around 20,000, of LA’s streetlights are out of working order, according to Miguel Sangalang, Executive Director of the BSL. At the same time, copper wire thefts ...

Clark County installed 12 solar-powered street lights in an east Las Vegas neighborhood in August in hopes they could cut down instances of copper wire theft.

The city of L.A.'s Bureau of Street Lighting has a staff of about 180 people responsible for maintaining a network of nearly a quarter million street lights scattered across 470 square miles.

While the indigo lights have also spawned theories online about everything from vampires to vaccines, the City of Vancouver says the LED street lights now shining purple are the result of a ...