Bicycle theft

It is a common crime due to the relative ease of reselling bicycles, which have a large second-hand market.

This makes the crime attractive to those needing to obtain currency quickly, such as people with substance addictions.

Bicycle theft is a common crime committed in areas with high population as well as on college campuses.

[13] A study published in 2012 in PLOS One examined the watching-eye effect as it applied to bicycle theft.

[14] The researchers simply placed clearly visible signage saying "Cycle Thieves: We Are Watching You" (along with the words "Operation Crackdown" and the logo of local police) at locations on a university campus in England that had frequently seen bicycle theft.

A severed bicycle U-lock lying loose around a street sign pole in Chicago , Illinois has been apparently defeated by bolt cutters .
An attempted bicycle theft in Davis, California where the perpetrator tried to the break the U-lock with a car jack
U Rack
A single bicycle wheel remains locked to a pole of a stop sign at River Park Shopping Center 's parking lot in Fresno, California , after the bike has apparently been unbolted from the wheel and carried away.