Tracking The Bike Thieves

Earlier this year Seismograph released an interesting map showing Where Your Bicycle is Most Likely to Get Stolen inwards San Francisco. The map plots the location of every wheel theft reported to the San Francisco police pull inwards 2013.

The map uses an interesting organization of concentric circles to present locations where to a greater extent than than i bike was stolen. You tin mouse-over the private circles to give away the fourth dimension together with appointment of each bike theft. Seismograph likewise render a useful bar nautical chart that shows yous at what fourth dimension of twenty-four hr menstruum your bike is close probable to perish stolen.

Judging past times the map it mightiness hold upwardly a expert reckon non to common your bike on Market Street, at the Ferry Building or exterior Mission BART.


Swiss paper Le Matin Dimanche has taken a dissimilar approach to mapping bike thefts. The paper hid GPS tracking devices inwards iii bikes. They together with thus left the bikes inwards iii Swiss cities Bern, Geneva together with Zurich together with waited for them to hold upwardly stolen.

Over 40,000 bikes a twelvemonth are stolen inwards Switzerland every twelvemonth together with the Le Matin Dimanche were interested to come across what happens to these bikes i time they are stolen. By tracking the stolen bikes the paper was interested to detect out what form of people pocket bikes together with what they practise amongst their stolen bicycles.

Using the GPS information from the stolen bikes they were able to practise a StoryMap for each city, plotting the get of each bike inwards the days later its theft.

In Geneva the showtime fourth dimension the bike was stolen it was taken to a Cash Converters store together with sold for 200 Francs. The managing director of the store revealed that the thief was a regular seller of bikes. Le Matin Dimanche together with thus placed the bike exterior a police pull station to come across if that would deter the bike thieves. It was presently stolen again.

The showtime theft of the bike left inwards Bern ended upwardly inwards a woman's garage. The paper retrieved the bike from the garage's owner. She claimed that the bike had been abandoned at that spot together with she was planning to study the stolen bike to the police. In Bern the bike was likewise stolen past times a xv twelvemonth onetime schoolboy who claimed that he reckon the bike had already been stolen together with he did non intend to continue the bike.

In Zurich the bike was stolen past times a human being described past times locals every bit a 'drug addict' together with sold to a cabaret dancer for l Francs.