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Bike theft
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Education and registration
While acknowledging that
thieves can probably bust any lock,
DPS Associate Director Tom Hicks
said that most stolen bikes are ei
ther locked improperly or not
locked at all.
“If you have a good lock, it still
takes time for somebody to work
through it,” Hicks said, adding that
DPS attempts to bring this message
to students each year.
When new students move into the
residence halls each fall, DPS hosts a
“Bike Corral,” a roped-off area where
students store bikes during their first
days on campus and receive informa
tion about how to properly secure a
bike. The best system, Hicks said, is to
fasten a U-lock around a bicycle’s frame,
front tire and rack and to supplement
that lock with a chain wrapped around
the rack, the frame and the back tire.
Seeking to return stolen bikes to
rightful owners, DPS maintains a reg
istry of bicycles on campus. Registra
tion is voluntary and encouraged, but
Hicks noted that only 5 to 10 percent
of bikes reported stolen are found.
The majority of stolen bikes leave
town and are often chopped into
pieces to be sold as parts, he said.
Sgt. Teresa Selby of the Ashland
Police Department said Oregon
bike thieves typically travel in large
trucks up and down Interstate 5,
steal bikes and sell the parts
throughout the region.
“They’ll ship parts down to Cali
fornia or up through Oregon,” she
said. “I’ve heard that they’ve trav
eled as far as the East Coast.”
Theft rates lower
on other campuses
Also near 1-5, which Selby depict
ed as a pipeline for bike thieves, is
Oregon State University. And unlike
Ashland, the Corvallis terrain is
characteristic of other Willamette
Valley towns: flat and biker-friendly.
Though OSU bike racks are often full
and ripe with potential targets, the
bike theft rate per student is two
thirds of that on the Eugene campus.
Paulette Ratchford, director of
OSU campus safety, said the
school’s bike registration program
has kept theft rates relatively low.
Like the DPS program, bike regis
tration at OSU is voluntary, and
those who register receive detailed
instructions about how to secure a
bike and what about a bicycle is at
tractive to thieves.
Ratchford said that the registra
tion stickers posted on bikes can be
a deterrent, but the education as
pect of bike registration is an even
stronger anti-theft program.
“People tend to have a shorter
learning curve when they’re in a di
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Ratchford said.
Students registering bikes at OSU
are encouraged to watch a video, in
which a convicted bike thief explains
that the best way to secure a bike is to
use both a U-lock and a chain. A Cor
vallis judge ordered the man to record
the tape as part of his sentence.
Because the man used to cruise
through campus carrying either
bolt cutters or a hydraulic U-lock
splitter, the man said he was de
terred by combination locking sys
tems, which would require both
lock-breaking devices.
Further north and also near 1-5 is
Portland State University, which has
the second lowest bike theft rate in the
state at 1.1 thefts per 1,000 students
each year. Only the Oregon Institute of
Technology in Klamath Falls could
boast a better record because the school
had no theft rate at all. Ed Guy, director
of the OIT campus security office, said
no bikes were stolen in the past three
years because nearly all the school’s
students either drive or bus to the cam
pus, which is located in a rural area out
side of the Klamath Falls city center.
PSU, on the other hand, is locat
ed in the middle of Portland’s
downtown, and scores of students
ride bicycles on campus.
John Fowler, director of the PSU
public safety office, said the key to
the low theft rate on campus is the
placement of bike racks in visible
locations where foot traffic is high.
PSU also runs a registration pro
gram and hosts an annual “Bike
Rodeo,” both similar programs to
those DPS hosts at the University.
“There’s not a lot of opportunity for
somebody to come up with bolt cut
ters and blatantly steal a bike,” he said.
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