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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58655196
Interactive map showing the bike theft across Scotland
The growth in popularity of electronic bikes, some of which can cost up to £5,000 to buy new, has been partly driving this trend.
Electronic bikes! Is it a new thing?
Yes @bill
These electronic bikes are self driving vehicles
Not a new thing. First seen in Tron (1982).
One crime worth bringing back flogging for
Who knows, maybe Labour's new "next gen neighbourhood watch" will fix everything, lol.
Edinburgh also top for housebreaking in Scotland.
As the saying goes, "you can't hide money". Thieves presumably know which side their bread is buttered on, etc. Probably the stolen goods are sold on elsewhere unless the thieves are particularly thick.
The main problems are that like most property crime that isn't stolen diamonds or gangs of ludicrously attractive Americans executing complex plans to rob galleries and casinos, the police DGAF; and lack of secure parking, and by that I don't mean Sheffield stands. They'll argue it's hard to solve and there are other important things to focus on, but the reality is a lot of the time you could walk into a station with a complete profile of the thief, a video of the theft being undertaken, and a precise, current, accurate-to-within-2m GPS locator signal for the bike and get a muffled "we'll look into it when we get a chance" from the break room. Whether you'll get a conscientious and engaged officer of the law or a lazy feckless twerp stuffed into a uniform like a supermarket own-brand sausage is complete chance even for normal thefts, then with bike crime you also have to deal with the ingrained "it's only a toy innit, just use your car" attitude.
You can do all the bike marking and lock-advice-sessions you like, if the polis won't actually do anything beyond occasionally return bikes they stumble over when searching for entirely different illegal activity, and if the council won't build/appropriate space where we can have free *monitored* parking facilities at destinations, bikes are going to keep getting nicked and people are going to keep dropping out of cycling because of it.
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