Santa Cruz Police: 396 bikes stolen in 2011

Lock your bike, Bro.

Santa Cruz Police report that 396 bikes were stolen last year, a sharp increase over previous years when 213 bike thefts were reported in 2010 and 177 in 2009.

Bike registration, which is required for city residents, costs $3 and can aid in the return of your property. Santa Cruz police check their records if they see bike registration on a recovered bike.

3 Comments

  1. Does Santa Cruz have any statistics on the rate of recovery for stolen bikes which are/are not registered?   I had a bike stolen days after registering it, and found that the police were far less interested in hearing about the theft than they had been about my unregistered bike a week earlier. 

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