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> because they are not major crimes I don't understand this police attitude. A £600 bike is worth as much as a £600 diamond. But cops will definitely go after
by denton-scratch 3y ago
> because they are not major crimes
I don't understand this police attitude. A £600 bike is worth as much as a £600 diamond. But cops will definitely go after diamond thieves.
I reported a £2,000 ebike stolen; it had a GPS tracker, so I could locate the thing to a specific address. Their reply: "We will not be visiting the address. Do you know how many Ferraris are stolen in Birmingham every week?"
So because I can't afford a Ferrari, the cops won't even try to recover my transport.
A cheap bike is probably more valuable to a bike owner than a Ferrari is to a Ferrari owner; the Ferrari owner can just switch to driving around in his Lotus.
- ddmf 3y agoI'm sure that a bike stolen from a large chain store would be investigated before a bike stolen from a member of the public would.
- throwaway22032 3y agoYeah, it's frustrating because the monetary value of the object is not what determines whether the crime is major. If I can't have a decent bike at all because it will be stolen like clockwork, the fact that I would lose a few hundred quid isn't the relevant aspect, it's that I'm forced into a degenerate way of being.
- KeplerBoy 3y agoI would estimate a grand total of zero Ferraris are stolen in a median week in Birmingham so go and get this man's bike back.
- hermitcrab 3y agoIf you could affor a Ferrari, why would you live in Birmingham? ;0)
- acqbu 3y agogreat question
- thefurdrake 3y agoHow is that relevant?
- tehwebguy 3y agoBike thefts help reinforce the idea that the police need additional funding. Solving bike thefts does not.
- denton-scratch 3y agoOne could equally argue that diamond thefts or Ferrari thefts help reinforce that idea, and that solving them doesn't. So I don't buy that explanation. Someone commented that the police think bikes are basically toys. I think that's closer; cops like powerful cars, utility-belts stuffed with nightsticks, handcuffs and tasers, and other "manly" metal shit. Bikes are for children, and for drug-dealers escaping down alleyways.