The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Bicycle Police


I ran across this interesting paper and I thought I would share. I have heard reports of how effective bike patrols are from IPMBA and other sources but I had no idea that Baltimore was one such experiment.

"Baltimore started experimenting with bicycle patrols in March 1972 because police cars had difficulty traveling through narrow alleys. Crime dropped 50% in six months of the four beats patrolled by bike from 8 AM to midnight (Bigart, 1972)."

I also found this of interest:

"Technology-dependent police officers became isolated from the communities they served.
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A study by the Kansas City Police Department attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of randomized patrolling in marked police cars. They study found that increasing or decreasing the frequency of patrols had no significant impact on the level of crimes believed to be deterred by police patrols and the change in levels of patrolling was not noticed by citizens."
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We feel police are isolated from the communities they serve and is crime a problem. Gee I wounder what ever can we do to solve these issues? <a href="http://www.ipmba.org/newsletters/ABriefHistoryofPoliceCycling.pdf">http://www.ipmba.org/newsletters/ABriefHistoryofPoliceCycling.pdf</a>;

by B' Spokes

Like most people I live a hectic life and who has the time for much exercise? Thanks to xtracycle now I do. By using my bike for daily activities I can get things done and get an hour plus work out in 15 minutes extra of my time, not a bad deal and beats taking the extra time going to the gym. In case you are still having trouble being motivated; the National Center of Disease Control says that inactivity is the #2 killer in the United States just behind smoking. ( http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/ ) Get out there and start living life! I can carry home a full shopping cart of groceries, car pool two kids or just get lost in the great outdoors camping for a week. Well I got go, another outing this weekend.
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