It is a crime that can leave victims financially and emotionally crushed - yet is very rarely solved by police. Is anything being done to stop it?
into the police’s handling of theft and burglary warned that “most victims aren’t getting the justice they deserve”. “Things are changing in the police,” says Dr Kate Tudor, a criminologist at Durham University. “But not fast enough.”
As with Parker’s experience, where the police fail to act, local communities are fighting back. On Facebook, stolen bike groups monitor suspicious sales on Facebook Marketplace, eBay and Gumtree. On X, formerly known as Twitter,describes itself as “a community of eyes on the ground” and has more than 10,000 followers. After her bike was stolen, Wetherhill searched for it online every day. “I used to imagine stealing it back,” she says. She thought it would be exhilarating.
The first thought that went through my head was, ‘I don’t want to get stabbed for the sake of a bike’ In response to growing public anger, the home secretary Suella Braverman announced in August that police forces will“reasonable lines of inquiry” when dealing with crimes such as theft. But the police, Higgins points out, “already have a duty to follow all reasonable leads”.
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