San Francisco police using GPS-tracked 'bait bikes' to lure thieves

a Francisco is encountering a raising number of bike thefts and nearby law requirement are beginning to take a new approach to getting culprits. The San Francisco Police Department is drawing cheats with unmanageable "trap bikes," furnished with GPS innovation, making them effectively trackable after they have been taken.

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A report from the New York Times says neighborhood police have done away with customary method for getting bike criminals and are rather now utilizing iphones and GPS trackers. The SFPD is actually posting aftereffects of the project to @sfpdbiketheft on Twitter.

The police use unmanageable bikes to guarantee they will in the long run get stolen, and afterward basically track them as they move far from where they were planted initially. The New York Times provides for one sample where police left a $1500 bike outside a train station and held up for it to get stolen. Inside 30 minutes of the bike being lifted, police could track it down and bust the single person in a park close by.

We have seen comparable innovations utilized as a part of Vancouver and different places in California, however it is the disturbing rate in which bike theft is developing in San Francisco that has brought on the city to make novel move. Up 70% since 2006, bike theft is turning into a genuine issue in SF with more than 4000 bikes now getting stolen consistently in the city. The rate in which Americans bike to work has climbed 60% between 2008 and 2012, which will likley cause city authorities to push for stronger anit-theft measures somewhere else.