• @Klinker
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    471 year ago

    If they really wanna do Paris a service they should start by dealing with all the pickpockets and bike thief first. My girlfriend has had 4 bikes stolen so far.

    Souce: I live in Paris

    • sab
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      261 year ago

      I will never understand why it’s so freaking hard to deal with bike thieves. Should be the easiest thing in the world to catch these people red-handed and make it so that stealing bikes was actually associated with risks. If law enforcement wanted to actually improve the quality of life in cities, it would be an obvious place to start.

      • @[email protected]
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        251 year ago

        Sorry they are way too occupied running after people smoking weed that are the real threat to society

        • sab
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          181 year ago

          After all it’s a slippery slope to doing cocaine, which is a slippery slope to amphetamines, which is a slippery slope to stealing bikes. They take problem by the roots.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        There’s yet to be any proof that increased sentences reduces crime. It’s a social problem, people do what they need to do to live.

        • sab
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          161 year ago

          I don’t think increased sentences is necessarily where the shoe is pressing, but rather enforcement in general. Right now the risk of getting caught stealing a bike is next to zero, and it’s basically an industry. It’s not primarily poor people who need to steal to afford food, it’s organized groups travelling around stuffing bikes into vans.

      • @Klinker
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        -31 year ago

        Because sanctions are extremely light here in France. On the news recently a Doctor got beaten bloody, and the aggressor walked out free.

        In France self defense is frowned upon by authorities sadly.

        • @Noodle07
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          11 year ago

          Unless it’s a cop of course, then they can “defend” themselves all they want

          • @Klinker
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            21 year ago

            I won’t argue about the police brutality because it exists, but the problem is deeper than that. When the law can’t stop you from stealing, nothing can!

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Damn, get her one of those Kryptonite U locks for Christmas, they’re basically indestructible unless you’ve got bike thieves walking around with angle grinders… Which actually sounds like you might.

      • @Klinker
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        21 year ago

        Stealing techniques are too elaborate these days, literally 10 minutes in the streets is enough for your bike to disappear