{"id":17946,"date":"2011-01-25T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2011-01-25T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T19:43:50","slug":"fighting-bike-theft-with-gps-in-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikocity.com\/fighting-bike-theft-with-gps-in-holland\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Bike Theft with GPS in Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I lived in the Netherlands, I was told that it’s common to have your bike stolen about once a year. They make jokes like, “your bike lock needs to be more expensive than your bike.” Well, the Dutch police have a new tactic to help address rampant bike theft that might help to address all that — using GPS and bait bikes to catch bike thieves.<\/p>\n

Police in Amersfoort, a city in the bicycle-crazy Netherlands plagued with high levels of bicycle theft, said Tuesday they are leaving out two-wheelers secretly equipped with trackers to catch thieves.<\/p>\n

“Bicycle theft is a type of criminality that often goes unpunished,” police spokeswoman Cornelie Hogeveen said of the project in the central Dutch city, which had a population of 144,858 and 900 bicycle thefts in 2010 — 10 percent of the city’s total reported crimes.<\/p>\n

In a six-month pilot project that started last December, so-called “bait bikes” are being placed in different spots around town, “sometimes locked and sometimes not,” said a police statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more on Bike Radar: Dutch fight bicycle theft with GPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: Zachary Shahan (me)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I lived in the Netherlands, I was told that it’s common to have your bike stolen about once a year. They make jokes like, “your bike lock needs to be more expensive than your bike.” Well, the Dutch police have a new tactic to help address rampant bike theft that might help to address …<\/p>\n

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