Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police

• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have heard that very often. I wonder if bikes are harder to track down than other property for some reason.

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  • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They only care about property loss when it involves rich people.

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    • SlikPikker@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which proves that cops really DO actually do their jobs.

      Because protecting the property of the rich is the exact core purpose of policing.

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      • Coasting0942@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Technically it’s maintaining social order. So get back to work menials or be reported to the Enforcers for organized discontent.

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  • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given the number of times I’ve seen cops on police forums and r/protectandserve use terms like “bikefags”, I think it’s just the typical cop disgust of anything they perceive to be weak or effeminate.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As a gay cyclist I know I’m doing something right by pissing off cops without doing anything wrong

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      • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you for you service o7

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I don’t get that. Bicycling requires strength and endurance. It exposes you to the elements. Why is sitting in a cushy car something some people think as being more macho? Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

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      • pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bicycling requires strength and endurance.

        So does cleaning a house, but that’s “women’s work”.

        Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

        That’s it. You didn’t get it at first because made the mistake of associating manliness with things like patience, strength, hard work, endurance both of toil and hardship; all things that do make up ideals of manliness to normal people. But you need to approach it from the perspective of a wastrel, a weak, foolish, and lazy person who demands the respect and deference of being manly without putting in the hard work—something he has avoided all his life. He might praise hard work in abstract, but he has no discipline for it and doesn’t respect those who actually do it, he just considers them beneath him. To such a person, the defining aspect of manliness and machismo is mastery, mastery over others and their wills, and since mastery through work is a waste of time to him, he turns to shortcuts.

        From there, it’s not hard to see where the thought process goes. Since strength is to him based on control and mastery, he picks something that gives him more command over the road in a direct and in-your-face way. The man who drives a lifted Ram 2500 can confront you by running you the fuck over. By contrast, in his opinion, cyclists are entitled jackasses in miniscule booty shorts who can only confront you on the road by screaming “CRITICAL MASS! FUCKING CAGER!” and throwing sparkplugs at your windows. The difference in power dynamic is proof enough to our friend of who the “real man” is.

        To take the mentality to its conclusion, the easiest way to gain mastery in general is through authority, and the easiest way to get that, even easier than joining a gang, is by becoming a cop.

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  • Localhorst86@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    smaller, therefore easier to hide. Not registered with a central authority like, for example, cars.

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    • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s plenty of cases where they don’t look for cars either.

      Or the cops themselves just straight up steal the car themselves.

      My wife’s car was ordered to be towed by, according to the impound lot, the police.

      Neat thing was that there was no ticket with the car, no police station within 3 miles had a record of a ticket for her or the car, and the area she had parked had no signs that suggested it was illegal to park where she did, nor does the city have any ordinance about overnight parking.

      Best we can figure, is a cop or the tow company that works with the city, just decided to tow a car for funsies and the 500 bucks it took to get it out of impound.

      The police and every organization associated with them are corrupt to the core.

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      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Reading that I almost had a thought like it must have been a mix-up or something, but no, US police will murder people with less thought, so that type of fuckery is completely expected.

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    • snowe@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is bike registration. bikeindex.org

      It’s helped track down bike trafficking gangs sending bikes to Mexico. The police just don’t care at all

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      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Love bikeindex, I actually got my stolen bike back thanks to that site. It was literally two years later but still, the police wouldn’t have even made a report probably in the city I was at, with bike theft so ubiquitous.

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  • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure any petty theft is very hard to track down. Not just bikes, if someone broke into your house and stole some minor things it’s almost certainly not gonna get found. Bikes are the same, it’s very easy to resell them and repaint, and nobory registers bikes.

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  • Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because even if they look for it and find it, whoever is riding just says it theirs and there is literally nothing the police can do unless it was caught on video or there is a meaningful identifying feature like a serial number or something else specific and unique.

    Seeing a sketchy guy with a black and red bike with the same bike rack you had isn’t enough to prove anything.

    If an officer approached me riding my bike around and asked me to prove it’s mine, I couldn’t either despite not being a thief.

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• lars@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I reported my bike stolen in college and I got a call the next day that they had found it parked in front of a nearby church.

  It was stolen on a Sunday. I guess someone didn’t want to be late to service.

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  • thebuoyancyofcitrus@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What you’re entering the third act of your love story and you have to get to the church in time to break up the wedding and declare your love, what’s a little bike theft? The universe will take care of it.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably added the theft to the sins they were confessing that day as well.

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  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    God made them do it!

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• superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And they absolutely hate ever doing anything about bicycle theft in particular.

  FTFY

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