Qualitative Research Assignment: Assessing the Cause of Bike Thefts

From recent efforts of campus securities around the nation, the amount of bikes stolen has decreased dramatically, but is still a prevalent issue. To reduce the number of bike thefts, university officials have been placing “bait” bicycles with GPS tracking systems around college campuses. Because of their recent efforts, more arrests have been made on campuses such as Arizona

“In the case of East Harlem, rising crime fears are accompanied by an obvious statistical explanation: Countering trends in most of the city, crime there has increased drastically. Over the past year, it has gone up by 17 percent, according to Police Department figures, with increases in rape, robbery and felony assault, among other transgressions.” (Bellafante)

Likewise, bike theft is a huge problem for many metropolitan cities in the U.S.. Literature to support this claim is the 2015 Crime Prevention Program in Portland, Oregon. “Thousands of bicycles are stolen in the City of Portland each year… Places with high concentrations of parked bicycles such as college campuses are especially vulnerable to theft” (Office of Neighborhood Involvement Crime Prevention Program, Bicycle Theft Prevention, 2015). This article also identifies many preventative techniques to make a bike harder to steal; for example, “Proactively register your bike and include its serial number and photos with the bike registration services bikeindex.org and project529.com” (2015). Moving on, it is imperative to attack any problem

The local police published an article saying that many of these increase thefts are due to people pawning the stolen property in order to pay for food and prescriptions.

First, the main issue with these crimes is that nothing is getting done about the burglaries, graffiti, and break ins. Each year there are about fifteen crimes taking place in the neighborhood of Liberty Greens; the summer of 2015 had the highest rate as a crime was taking place almost weekly. Are these crimes going to continue to rise each year? We moved into this neighborhood in the summer of 2005 and since then there have been crimes year after year. One member of the neighborhood, Becky Koporc says, “Bikes were stolen out of our garage the year we moved in, 2006.” Yet crimes are still happening now in 2016. Why? Our neighborhood isn’t being monitored correctly. Not only have these crimes been happening for over ten years, but they have happened at every

In 1994, the New York City Police Department adopted a law enforcement crime fighting strategy known as COMPSTAT (COMPuter STATistics). COMPSTAT uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the locations of where crimes occur, identify “ hotspots”, and map problem areas. COMPSTAT has amassed a wealth of historical crime data. Mathematicians have designed and developed algorithms that run against the historical data to predict future crimes for police departments. This is known as predictive policing. Predictive policing has led to a drop in burglaries, automobile thefts, and other crimes in some cities.

Over the last several years crime has been steadily increasing and decreasing but has had a great decrease in comparison of the 1980s based on relevant statistics in the chart “Crime in California, 1983-2009.” The most common types of crime in California are property crimes that are burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson and in second place violent crimes that is the interpersonal crime that involves the use of force by offenders or results in injury or death to victims such as murder, forcible raperobbery, and aggravated assault.

Crime is something that occurs throughout the world. To some people it is an incident that adds stress to one’s life, and to others, they see it as a way of life. Over the last years, different areas of the United States have been affected by crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report (UCR) Program is a nationwide program that gathers statistical information from nearly 18,000 agencies that report criminal data on crimes that have been brought to their attention or reported voluntarily (The Federal

Over the last twenty-three (23) years, ABTPA funding and grantee collaboration have been instrumental in reducing the statewide motor vehicle theft rate by

In order to discuss the myths surrounding violent crime in New York State, understanding the current data and trends is essential. To establish the general consensus of what people think about violent crime in New York State, I conducted a small poll of people in my area. In essence, the aim was to see whether or not

i think that when the actors were stealing the bike the people walking by were being sexist, stero typing, and racist. When the white guy actor was trying to steal the bike nobody stopped him. They asked if it was his and he said no, but they still didn't stop him. When the black guy actor was trying to steal the bike somebody stopped him in the first minute. When the first person yelled at him to stop a lot of other people rushed over. When the young white girl actor was stealing the bike nobody stopped her in fact mostly all of them (guys) helped her steal the bike. I think this was sexist because when the girl was stealing the bike people helped her steal it, but when the white, or black guy were stealing it they both got stopped and

In the beginning of the 1990s, New York City was filled with violent crime. In the events of recent police shootings, citizens could not help but fear the possibility of the city going back to how it was during the 1990s and earlier violent era times. However, recent studies and reports have indicated that the city has never been as dangerous and violent as it was in earlier times. As by 2015, a modest decrease in the rate of serious reported crimes was noteworthy.

In “Chapter Five: Chasing My Stolen Bicycle” by Justin Jouvenal law enforcement and prosecutors treat petty crime such as a stolen bike as if it’s nothing. They don’t care too much about it. Law enforcement agencies tend to prioritize on violent crimes since they are more harmful and make people more fearful. For instance, in “Chapter Seven: Duke Lacrosse Players Relieved Case has ‘Closure’” by The Associated Press, law enforcement, and prosecutors responded instantly to the serious allegations. This is because this case involved allegations of rape, kidnapping, and sexual assaults. On top of that, the district attorney had corrupt actions. This is a serious crime as opposed to a stolen bike that causes no physical harm to a person. This

	Another fine example of neorealism is The Bicycle Thief (1948), written by Cesare Zavattini and directed by Vittorio De Sica. The narrative of this film unfolds in post-W.W.II times. The film is a portrait of the post-war Italian disadvantaged class (the majority) in their search for self-respect. It is a time of struggle for the Italian people, amplified by a shortage of employment and lack of social services. In the first scenes of the film, these conditions are evident as Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorami) meets his spouse Maria (Lianalla Carell) on his way back home. We see the "men" arguing at the employment "office" as the "women" argue about the shortage of water. Although the director's

Examining the crime rates following the ‘New York miracle’ certainly lend credibility to the effectiveness of ZTP. Gibbons (1996) noted that burglaries decreased 24%, robberies 32% and motor crime 40% in the two years following April 1994. The overall crime rate was reduced by 37%, with decreases in homicide and violent crime of 51% and 38% respectively (Bratton, 1997). Advocates of ZTP attribute these reductions in crime rates to the use of a proactive and intensive policing approach, situational crime control, rapid analysis of information and heightened efficiency & accountability (Bratton & Knobler, 1998, Bintcliffe, 2014).