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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on June 11, 2014 at 3:13am

> Are bike thefts treated as felonies or misdemeanors in Chicago?

I imagine it all depends on the value of the stolen bike(s).

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Permalink Reply by KL on June 11, 2014 at 3:38am

The two guys caught in Evanston this week were charged with a Class 4 felony. The PD caught them on the second day of their operation.

http://evanston.suntimes.com/2014/06/09/police-surveillance-nets-tw...

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

> Are bike thefts treated as felonies or misdemeanors in Chicago?

I imagine it all depends on the value of the stolen bike(s).

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Permalink Reply by David Barish on June 11, 2014 at 5:48am

Nice job Evanston PD! Thanks. 

KL said:

The two guys caught in Evanston this week were charged with a Class 4 felony. The PD caught them on the second day of their operation.

http://evanston.suntimes.com/2014/06/09/police-surveillance-nets-tw...

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

> Are bike thefts treated as felonies or misdemeanors in Chicago?

I imagine it all depends on the value of the stolen bike(s).

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Permalink Reply by Melissa Manak on June 11, 2014 at 11:06am

I wonder if making bunch of stickers of "is this a bait bike" and pass around would deter the number of theft... I am interested in making one for myself!

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Permalink Reply by Richard Stiers on June 12, 2014 at 4:53am

Love It! Love It! Love IT!!

Great Job Evanston PD!

If anyone (are you listening Active Trans Alliance) would make those stickers "This is a Bait Bike". I would gladly join for a sticker in lieu of their bike map of Chicago.

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on June 12, 2014 at 5:35am

It would only work if CPD (or EPD, or whoever) had an actual publicly advertised bait bike program and used the stickers themselves, right? Otherwise, it would be fairly obvious that the answer to the question posed by the sticker is, "no."

Melissa Manak said:

I wonder if making bunch of stickers of "is this a bait bike" and pass around would deter the number of theft... I am interested in making one for myself!

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Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on June 12, 2014 at 11:02am

When police make the rare arrest for bike theft do they ever take it further to find to whom habitual thieves sold to? If guilty craig's list users started getting fines and arrests for purchasing stolen property would that help reduce demand?

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Permalink Reply by Josh L. on June 12, 2014 at 2:48pm

This Evanston gang should be all of our worst nightmare. A two man crew with a battery powered angle cutter.  For some reason these gangs seem to target Evanston. There was a bust last year of the guys who had a storage locker filled with stolen bikes. My assumption is there are more high end bikes to choose from there?

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