In the ' I ' Newspaper today.
Bike theft has been " effectively decriminalised " the Liberal Democrat's have said, with only 2% of cases seeing a suspect charged. After analysing Home Office data the party said an average of 200 bicycle thefts across England & Wales go unsolved every day. 🤯
I suspect you mean it isn't enough to stop a bike getting nicked ...just being "unfashionable" isn't enough to get a bike nicked
I suspect you mean it isn't enough to stop a bike getting nicked ...
It's easy politicians to whittle, but where is their solution to the problem, and why did that particular gang not address it the five years they were in joint government if it bothers them so much?
Not that it should matter but I'd be interested to see theft figures broken down by type.
All else being equal I'd expect swanky MTBs and road bikes to be top of the list, however as @biggs682 eludes to, just being "unfashionable" isn't enough to get a bike nicked; as the local smackheads are likely not fussy as long as it gets them to their next score.
Reinforces my preference for traditional steel bikes that, I think, don't attract the baddies.
Its mountain bikes (any) first (wrong the main prize is electric bikes), decent road bikes and nice hybrids, basically anything that can get some money and be sold on easily. A steel bike is not very fashionable and is a niche market really.
I've got one and its been totally left alone outside shops and supermarkets whilst its been locked up.
Might not attract the "professional" type targeting higher value bikes for export or component farming, but anything rideable without a decent lock attracts the opportunist with small bolt croppers or cable cutters. They can sell it on for a fiver to a druggie, or just to get home after a night on the p---.
Because the Home Secretary at the time May have been Conservative? As were the ministers for state for Criminal Justice and Victims.
Or they're trying to get the cash for the next hit. That's the trouble with hard drug and severe alcohol addiction; by definition it's near impossible to hold a job down.
Is there a heroin substitution system in the UK?
There are methadone programs but vary a lot region to region. As with all addictions it takes a very willing client for them to work.
Off topic grammar nazi, none is either followed by a verb or used on its own, what you want to use here is the prefix non
https://langeek.co/en/grammar/course/322/none-vs-non
It's been driving me round the bend at work fixing this miFwsuse of none in a UI.
When I'm Lord Protector that will be a thing. They'll be armed with high explosive laxative tipped rounds.