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How about a title like "Cyclists urge government to invest in decent police"?
What this article doesn't state is that the rise in thefts is due to an increase in thefts from sheds,garages and houses not from those left on the street.
Given 'Humberside' police don't give a flying fuck about safety on the roads (never got back to me after an East Yorkshire bus tried to mow me down!) they're hardly going to bother about small time crime like this.
Who just got out of jail?
Everytime i visit my folks back in my home city I worry about my bike being stolen, I often drop into one of the large shopping parades and lock my bike up outside, have a reasonably sturdy coil lock and the bike parking is in view of CCTV not that that actually is much of a deterrant for the determined theif.
I'd like to spin a positive on this though and say that maybe people cycling is on an upward trend, kingston upon hull does have a fairly flat 6% modal share with respect to people using bikes. BITD it was massively more though and the flat landscape and compacted nature of the city means you can get from one city boundary to another (West/East) in 35 minutes, North to the city centre is about 30 mins from the furthestmost point.
See: this is what happens now Hull is European City of Culture - you get all these bearded hipsters not locking their bikes properly...