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I was just wondering, wether airtags or similar technology would be helpful in this kind of situation
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I was kind of in agreement, that in the UK the police seem to have little time to devote to what many consider real crime - i.e. burglary and theft, yet seem to spend endless hours policing language on twitter. Anarcho-tyranny.
I wish bike manufacturers would start including GPS devices into the frames of high-end bikes. The devices would need some access to insert SIMs and charge them and then it should act as a deterrent.
This is such a good idea that a number of high-end bike manufacturers agree with you and do so. VanMoof is one example, but they are not the only ones.
Maybe it's a weight-weenie thing as e-bikes are already heavy so adding 100g isn't noticeable (not that I'd be able to notice 100g on an acoustic bike).
A long time ago I had a bicycle stolen. I had registered the bike with the city as "required" had filled out a police report with license number and serial number. Found the bike locked up in town on a Friday night. Flagged down a police officer and told him about the bicycle theft, police report and had a copy of the paperwork with all the relevant info. Cops reply: I can't get a locksmith out until Monday. Went hom…
Why you wanted the government to live your life for you in the first place is beyond me.
Isn't it the same government that made vigilantism illegal?
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Logan is >80% Mormon. Indeed, when you have high-trust, high-IQ, low-crime demographics, it becomes a lot more practical to address property crimes - there aren't very many of them, and there aren't many serious crimes higher up the todo list. It has some, but not all, to do with the people in power. The demographics of a city like NYC are such that you would have to 10x police expenditures and radically expand polic…
Is there some reason to think the median Mormon has a higher IQ than the median American? I think high trust and low population density has a lot more to do with it.
I had no receipts, just a description, half of one of the bikes in an old photo, and the combination of the lock on one of them. The bikes were stolen unlocked, leaning on the outside of the house.
The small-ish-city policeman seemed to have an idea who to suspect, and found one bike at a pawn shop and the other in the trunk of a car. Used the lock combo to confirm the one, and I forget how we confirmed the other, other than the description and that it was in the possession of the same thieves. Arrested two people and got the bikes back to us a month or two later, with very little work on my part.
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They don’t have time to investigate. They’re happy to show up at an arrest after all the investigation work is done and the thief is handed to them on a silver platter. Especially given the alternative.
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> It was my fault - it wasn't locked up. Pretty sure it's still the thief's fault. (I dunno, maybe you were in Amsterdam at the time.)
Isn't there an unwritten rule in Amsterdam and some other cities, where there are tons of crappy old bikes around and you can just take one and leave it elsewhere? In Innsbruck that was the case.
It's kinda interesting because you can have a theft occur from the perspective of a naive visitor but otherwise innocent behavior from the perspective of the "thief".
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YMMV - I see zero help with home burglaries let alone stolen bikes. Depends on a lot of factors, just sucks you pay taxes for no benefits.
Depends where you live. SF you are getting a laugh. Tiny rural town you are getting the sherif and his full effort.