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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.

@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.

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@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.