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The riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympics
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I will never understand why it's so freaking hard to deal with bike thieves. Should be the easiest thing in the world to catch these people red-handed and make it so that stealing bikes was actually associated with risks. If law enforcement wanted to actually improve the quality of life in cities, it would be an obvious place to start.
Sorry they are way too occupied running after people smoking weed that are the real threat to society
After all it's a slippery slope to doing cocaine, which is a slippery slope to amphetamines, which is a slippery slope to stealing bikes. They take problem by the roots.
Because sanctions are extremely light here in France. On the news recently a Doctor got beaten bloody, and the aggressor walked out free.
In France self defense is frowned upon by authorities sadly.
There's yet to be any proof that increased sentences reduces crime. It's a social problem, people do what they need to do to live.
I don't think increased sentences is necessarily where the shoe is pressing, but rather enforcement in general. Right now the risk of getting caught stealing a bike is next to zero, and it's basically an industry. It's not primarily poor people who need to steal to afford food, it's organized groups travelling around stuffing bikes into vans.