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15,000 bikes stolen in NYC every year! Many of these bikes are stolen from college campuses. Cops are not effective in their recovery. Confirm this with someone that's reported a bike stolen in NYC.

And yet, police care so little about the problem, that they don't even recognize a heavy duty bike lock.

Of course, that's the less cynical interpretation of why the police would say what they said about the lock.

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@mekkaokereke Cops love bike theft. It’s very convenient for them. It cuts down on bike ridership and reduces the number of complaints about their SUVs being illegally parked in bike lanes. They’ll probably now make a push for bike locks to be banned so bicycle users can’t protect their vehicles at all.

mhoye

@PedestrianError @mekkaokereke From personal experience, cops just don't show up _at all_ for hit and runs if the person getting hit was on a bike.

@mhoye @mekkaokereke When I was hit walking in a crosswalk, two bystanders had called 911 before I scraped myself up off the street. The driver stayed at the scene. The cop who showed up coached her on how to lie about where I was when she hit me (because it’s fine to hit people with SUVs as punishment if they don’t follow all traffic laws to the letter while not operating deadly machinery) and threatened to ticket me instead when I said she should ticket the driver for failure to yield.

@mhoye @PedestrianError @mekkaokereke 100%

They want to avoid the entire situation. There isn't an easy insurance company to pass the problem to, so they dodge entirely.

@mhoye@mastodon.social @PedestrianError@towns.gay @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io From personal experience, cops will show up when a driver hits someone on a bike, if the victim's body lands in a car lane and blocks traffic. You just have to use your head … literally.