Tag: spd
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SPD online reporting system leads to arrest of bike thief
Report those bike thefts! Here’s a blurb from the SPD Blotter: North Precinct detectives recently investigated a case where a citizen utilized the new Community Online Reporting Program to report her bicycle stolen from her front yard on July 27th. The bicycle was actually taken on July 22nd. The key to this case was the…
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Cycle Cop Chic: New trend emerging of biking while cop
If you’ve noticed more bike cops around, it’s part of a hot summer trend … er … well, it’s a sign of the growing importance of the bike patrols in SPD operations, East Precinct Capt. Jim Dermody told Capitol Hill Seattle. Turns out, bikes are better for policing, too, especially in the more dense areas:
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Your weekly bike theft map (August 8-15)
View Bike Thefts (August 8-15) in a larger map Buy a u-lock if you’ve only got a chain. That’s the advice from one UW campus police lieutenant over at BikeWise. Good advice. For those new to the bike theft map, the data is pulled from Seattle police reports. This is not scientific. However, report those…
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Driver of Annoying Loud Car Attacks Biker in Cap Hill
This story was originally published at SeattleCrime.com. A giant douche bag in a smashed up Mazda with an annoying loud muffler got mad at a biker for no reason and swerved into him, knocking him to the ground before speeding away. The biker was not injured from the crash, which occurred August 2 around 8…
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Your weekly bike theft map (July 22-29)
View Bike Thefts, 7/22-29 in a larger map It was a bike theft buffet along Madison this week. And by buffet, I of course mean that this statistically questionable map of bike theft police reports shows several there.
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Your weekly bike theft map (July 16-23)
View Bike thefts 7/16-23 in a larger map Bike thefts reported to SPD in the past week. Still no West Seattle data. I’m working on it, I promise. Got a bike theft to report, but for whatever reason don’t want to go to SPD? Report it at BikeWise so that it is at least on…
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