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Definitely is a valuable service, but probably hard to scale in the same way that the crime does. Professional thieves either chop the bikes up or collect them
by avidiax 3y ago
Definitely is a valuable service, but probably hard to scale in the same way that the crime does.
Professional thieves either chop the bikes up or collect them and export.
It would be nice to have some kind of international theft settlements/sanctions for those countries that receive stolen goods or allow internet scams. That would at least align incentives somewhat for those in power, but it is still very difficult to sanction enough that it outweighs the bribes from the criminal revenue stream.
It's a difficult situation.
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- thorncorona 3y agoPut the thieves in prison. Easily solvable.
- jcarrano 3y agoCrime does not scale. It's the same few people stealing the majority of bikes. I'd go as far as to claim almost no thief steal only one bike. Catching thieves and jailing them scales. For each one caught you avoid potentially hundreds of further thefts from that person and an even greater number from the people who will be discouraged from pursuing criminal activities.
- euroderf 3y agoI have always suspected that a lot of stolen Finnish bikes (the high-end stuff) ended up in Russia, but AFAIK Customs didn't check outgoing, so who the heck knows. But maybe bike theft trends have changed now that the border is mostly closed. (Dual citizens can still shuttle back & forth, but now they need EU license plates not Russian.)