Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "NYC ebike theft on the rise." video.

  1. 8:15 Police should hire that Bike Batman to teach his methods to police.
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  2. Here in Finland thieves may still get dragged to court but I'm not sure if it's worth the effort for the society. The law enforcement task force is so heavy that getting one thief to court requires countless hours of work and then the thief may get 300 EUR fine and maybe a couple of weeks of community service in best case. At least here in Finland the thief doesn't need to pay to court fees and policy salary even when found guilty. So the thief could stole 2000 EUR worth or property and maybe is able to sell half of it and spend the money. Half the property is returned to the owners, and maybe 3000 EUR worth of salary is spent by society on police, public prosecutor, judge, legal counsel and countless of other people wasting hours no the thing. In total the thief caused direct damage of 1000 EUR to owners that lost property that couldn't be recovered and 3000 EUR to legal force making total of 4000 EUR lost for the society. The thief gets a slap on the wrists and a bit of community service which sure as hell is not going to prevent him or her being a thief in the future. So society would save approximately 2000 EUR for this kind of case *just by doing nothing*. Only when thieves get too arrogant to cause so much collateral damage that it's worth the effort for the society police should even try. A simple way to fix this would be to send bill for all the work done by the legal machinery. Then it would really hurt and the more you hide and kick back before finding quilty, the more expensive it would get for you. The nice part of court cases here in Finland is that if you're found not-guilty, you can usually collect 100% of the expenses (but no profit!) spent on the case by you. But society gets nothing.
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