We all know how police are clamping down on us ‘generally’ law-abiding motorcyclists, with their speed cameras and their driver awareness causes and all that nonsense; so I don?t need to go into that. What I?m sure most of us want to know, is what they?re doing to tackle the real baddies. The Jeremy Hunts that nick our bikes have been getting away with it for too long, and if you believe everything you read on the internet (some do, you know), the police are actually trying to put a stop to it once and for all. This is how police are tackling bike thieves.

Telling us to improve security

The criminal justice system is broken. If it worked, people would soon stop stealing bikes, but they won?t. The problem is, nobody dares take the bull by the horns and start chopping hands off. No, rather than locking bike thieves up and throwing away the key (or simply killing them), convicted bike thieves are left to wander the streets, amongst us humans, sometimes after a short prison sentence, often not.
That means the police know there?s a very good chance our bikes are going to get stolen. So to save them the massive amount of paperwork involved in doling out a crime number and then completely disregarding the case, they?re putting the onus on us. They?re saying that we need to keep our bikes locked up and keep them out of sight of the Jeremys. Yes, thanks for that, Officer Dibble, I don?t need you to tell me to put a chain on my bike.

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