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My local police station in San Francisco still does bike registration: http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/#!__bike-registration http://www.inglesidepolicesta
by nrp 14y ago
My local police station in San Francisco still does bike registration: http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/#!__bike-registration http://www.inglesidepolicestation.com/#!__bike-registration
The website looks like something out of the late 90's, and the form is a Word document, but it's nice that it exists. It evidently gets some use too, as they occasionally recover a stash of stolen bicycles and post pictures of the ones that weren't registered.
- firebones 14y agoBike registration would be a great service to outsource to bike shops. It generates foot traffic for the shop, costs almost nothing, and the local PDs can work with the bike shops in a fashion similar to how PDs work with pawn shops. Provide a national registry, sell ads, viola! YC 2013, baby! (Okay, maybe not, but a useful public service niche.)
- btilly 14y agoThe problem is that if the police do bike registration, but nobody actually expects bikes to be registered, then nobody cares that their stolen bike is registered.