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Their list of stolen bikes is openly available. [citation needed] National Bike Registry (NBR, originally based in California) is a free bicycle register. [4] In 2017 NBR was purchased and merged with 529 Garage (based in Seattle, Washington). Once a bike is stolen the police can list it in National Crime Information Center.
The London Cycle Theft Survey (2016), by Stolen Ride and London Cycling Campaign, 55% reported being 'very concerned' with the security of their bikes out and about in London. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The FBI publishes the percentage of bikes reported stolen each year in their yearly edition of Crime in the United States which is available on the FBI's ...
According to Bryan Hance of Bike Index, "one of the first 'hits' was a bike that was stolen in Salt Lake City, Utah and pawned at a shop in Nevada — 400 miles away." [ 11 ] In 2017, data analysis by a student at the NYC Data Science Academy of the openly available Bike Index data showed that approximately a third of the cataloged bicycles ...
A teenage boy has been arrested after three motorbikes, including an emergency blood bike, were stolen and taken for a joyride. Avon and Somerset Police said two of the thefts occurred on Saturday ...
According to Bryan Hance, who runs bikeindex.org, a nonprofit international registry of stolen bikes, 11,378 thefts were reported in 2019, with 1,108 bikes recovered. In 2020, the numbers surged ...
Devon and Cornwall Police said a number of motorbikes, cars and numbers plates were reported to have been stolen from the Camborne, Pool and Redruth areas between 12 October and 19 November.
The fee included a bike sticker with a registration number which made it possible for law enforcement officers to contact the owners of found or recovered bikes. On January 31, 2017, Project 529 (based in Seattle, Washington) acquired the National Bike Registry and merged the NBR registration database into its own to create the largest bike ...
Instances of robbery are particularly widespread in Spain, as of 2020 Spain had the second highest recorded instances of theft in the EU. [3] One of the often cited reasons for this is a national law that states that theft of anything worth less than €400 ($459) is not a crime, but a misdemeanor.