when you for about that in you've known people who have their bicycles stolen they don't report it but that brings up to 4 thousand and 85. we remember through an experience to attempt to value those bicycles. there's a wide range to a range of low priced bicycles. but we came up with a figure of $4.6 million in value of the stolen bicycles in 2012. the rate at which the bicycle rates stolen has increased there's a 70 percentage rate reported by bicycle theft folks.

the st. pd has recovered 8 hundred and 64 and against this is 2012 data but a very small number of owners recover their bikes it's 1 hundred and 42 this which is 16 percent. the reason is the difficulty in proving ownership by bicycle owners and some don't know to go to the police departments there's this warehouse full of bikes. quickly distribution by the supervisorial districts. it effects all neighbors as you can see some more than others like district 6.

no district went untouched by bicycle thefts as you can see. this table is just the methods we use and the average bike value we've assigned to stolen bikes that were classified as grand theft. over $950 is granted theft. and part of this assignment is looking at the policies and procedures in place that the police department has to deal with stolen bikes. quickly thefts when their tracked and the police departments crime data warehouse. recovered bikes are under the jurisdiction of the department and the property control division. they store the bikes and records

of the bikes in custody are kept separate. >> so can i just say the 8634 is for one year and that's the average. >> it will be going up with the number of thefts because the theft rate is compared took the theft growth. for required is proof of ownership. it's not that common place it people keep their receipts and they only have their bikes for a couple of years but simply showing up and saying i lost my bike that won't do it >> well, if my two bikes were

there i couldn't access them without proof maybe you could go back to the place of purchase and get a receipt but that may not be possible. in terms of investigation of reports of stolen bikes some stations have dedicated resources that are dedicated to bicycle thefts per we were able to get some information but there's no policy at a point for sprld approach that insures that all stations will have staff daeblgd to this or it's handled the same way at all stations. there is no department-wide

approach to educating the public will ways they can prevent bike theft and also how they can come to the police department to recover their stolen property. we contacted the district attorney's office and they said that bike theft is considered merits of the case and the decision is made whether or not to prosecute the case, however, we asked for caseload data to see how many cases were prosecuted and they didn't have any data to indicate their work in that area. we contacted and got information from the bike police since they've got stations of bikes in san francisco. the same approach there in terms of theft their treated bilk my

other crime they take the reports and try to contact the owner. they have the same limitations as sfpd. both bart and sfpd will either auction or donate their bikes. we have found that san francisco police department they have regular education leaflets and brochures they leave and other material of the most effective way to prevent theft.

they have bike racks at most of their stations so pedestrians can leave their bikes and they were reasonably protected and under the surveillance of bart agencies. they have community officers who repeatedly patrol the streets. this is the photo of the day we visited and you can see many of them but it's quite a process to locate a bike in there without identification. the bike theft in the low level of bicycle recovery this was based on our discussions with the police department and looked at it some literature on the topic and the improper locking

techniques but this is the information that owners need to have if they don't know it. the issue of establishing proof of ownership is a vexing problem. i think i hit on that enough but clearly if you don't have a receipt of ownership there will be a problem. insufficient bicycle parking the bart stationary a good example of what could be down. the underground station don't have those kind of facilities and mta also has in its bicycle plan some aggressive ideas for expanding the number of bicycle racks and facilities on city

streets in varies locations. the police department approach the bicycle theft it's another transmitting for about it would be helpful if the police departments took a standard strategy department-wide. sfpd staffing channels is moot matter we found it they have bicycle baiting where they'll you put a best of my knowledge out on the street with a poor lock and observe thieves but that's not something that can be done and it requires staff resources to do that but it's prove that to be a fairly

successful unique. we did look at other cities and a bicycle programs are in place in a number of cities and a an important decision whether it's a volunteer or voluntarily involuntarily system. city of oakland has volunteer programs. predictability in trends where their reviewed and pro-active methods see are taken where the bicycle theft is expected to be in the future. city of santa cruz had a program and one precinct in the city of la had a program in place and

found the same results. finally optioned for the board of supervisors to consider in dealing with the issue establishing a bicycle program would be a improvement and it would take some paperwork but it's not particularly hard for bicycle shop owners or the police department make the process easier if some kind of serial number was brought forward. standa standarding the methods we found they're actively in terms of taking actions according and some other stations less so. conducting bike baiting operations i've mentioned.

they do require staff resources but it's something to consider both to stem the tied and a send a message to bicycle thieves. we found when we talked to the police department there's a strong perception that there are not going to be repercussions >> and particularly in the areas of locking and safety and where to park your bikes where their safer than other when you leave them on the street. enhancing information on stolen bicycles the police department does collect data the moss more standardized to the public more

folks will take advantage of how to handle this. and they're creating a bicycle unit within the sf police department so their improving the system to recover more likes i bikes and get them back to their owners. that's the summary of the report and -- excuse-me. we can respond to any comments and we have tour staff to respond to the questions >> actually let me just ask could you elaborate on santa cruzs model. >> sure. the unique that's been used in

police departments for a variety of crimes and problems is the city there took data where the bicycle thefts were occurring and other indicators so there's are crimes that happen in conjunction with thefts and they'll get those to the areas where those go hand no hand >> that's a type of indicator. i believe the program was a pilot i don't know if it's still in effect they ran it for a year they reported a drop in bicycle thefts and also burglaries >> and i think your information was to give riders some since of

where it's happening to avoid key spots. >> yes. i could show where the crimes are occurring and where the safer parking facilities are and help the public navigate with their bikes and i think supervisor breed has a question. >> i went to davts and one of the things we went we had to register our bike. it's interesting to know whether they have mandatory registry but what the recovery rate is in terms of folks who have their bikes stole to actually recover their bikes in davis in comparison so that would be some

interesting information to have to implement a program similar like that in san francisco >> supervisor we didn't look at davis in particular but it improves the recovery rate because there's a serial number and the police can line them & up and the biggest problem is the owners can't prove ownership. >> i don't know what the system or how it works but once you, you referring recover a bike it has a license plate and the owner can be contacted or when 33 contact the police department it seems like a lot easier for

recovery. beyond the scope i have a receipt for my bible and i think wow. how would i prove it's mine. with photographs of you on their bicycle could they use that >> generally no, that wasn't sufficient it doesn't prove ownership and there's a lot of booijz bicycles that look alike. >> probably not but accident police department can expand on that. >> if i may follow-up on that. have you found whether or not there's a more convenient way short of registration?

>> no, i think there's different types of registration programs that we saw and some perhaps more bumper e - burn some. >> i know the bikes are kept for 1 hundred and 20 days what happens next. >> the police department used to conduct - it's either some combination of auctions or donations. >> thank you. >> i just wanted to go to some of our recommendations. i think the picture on page 19 of your report and the report is available on line for anybody to

access but there's a picture of exhibit 11 at the bart station. one statistic there's about 757 thousand bike trips but only 8 though bike racks so there's a secure parking lacking >> your numbers are correct supervisor and not that every one of the 75 thousand needs to park but certainly there's a big gap between the number of riders and bike racks and cages so forth available. mta is going to - has a plan to expand the number of parking facilities and that will be helpful. one of the big gaps we've found is in the transit stations so

that's such a good place to have those types of facilities so people can pop on muni or take the bike to muni for the day for longer periods of time. so that would be one place that is extremely effective but on the streets in general our absolutely correct. there a big gap a rack can hold more than one bike but not close to 75 thousand. >> i hope that the staff will address that but our best of my knowledge strategy by the senate mount has an aggressive number of bike racks but different strategies i know it takes

funding to do that. i think the new building construction requiring bicycles are important. i want to say in conversations with police department officers i know that a lot of police officers are doing education on bike theft on a individual basis but i think one of our streams is to increase bike theft education so your mta and bike education is good together and a supervisor mar i know that the police department has conducted workshops just that purpose community causation and the topics are effective locking and again back to the parking how to

- where to park. you might have a good lock but if you're attaching it to a sign or parking meter it's not as secure as a rack. those are topics on the top of the list for education efforts. the bart police have been more pro-active by the way, they say actually hang material on bicycles and stations about locking techniques particularly on bikes that don't have good locks so that would be effective and not foil a great costs. i think it was the inning wide station have had reasoning shops in the past. they've got groups and ran over

the tops. the website is the other option for education efforts to have those same kind of materials posted on the websites for every station in the city. right now there's different kinds of information on every station and website some of which is reflect activist community but to have some safety against theft is good. my last question i know we're making efforts to start a pilot for a local regulatory. why is there a need for a local registry i know that some folks are registered nationally. the national registry the data

isn't always reported fully or many people don't know about it. if there's going to be a community awareness of a program the people would turn to the local police department. on a there is a small number of folks who have their bikes stolen it's going to assure greater access. i think when you start dealing with a national database there's issues are people registered and is the data available to the police department throughout the department >> thank you very much. the next he speaker is officer matthew friedman from the san francisco police department >> supervisors thank you very much for having me here today. i have something prepared here

but i'm going to put this away and try to he'd the issues brought up and talk about the registry program. i've been working in the department for a little bit over 5 years and i think particularly the two districts that i am in has been hit hard by bicycle theft. so one of the things we've decided to do is number one how do we investigate those crimes to get the best benefit to reach the most amount of people per we've done bike faith programs in almost everywhere in the city. we've arrested a number of bike theft thieves and held workshops and where we work with community

a partners like good looking and bicycle coalition and worked with san francisco save to talk about specifically locking techniques and garage door security is another topic. we're trying the educational prach approach is paramount here how folks lock their bikes to a secure post. those types of efforts have been happening all over the police department. this registry program will be the focal a point. the last workshops we have 1 hundred and 50, 2 hundred people showing up. people want to know how do i look my bikes. i walk down the streets of san

francisco and people are still using poor locking. so we have station websites where you can download bike thefts information all that information is available. i want to say it could be visually impossible to walk around the city and put leaflets open all the bikes. we work with bart on the best practices. i think we're doing a lot of the things to prevent it can we do more? >> yes. san francisco save and sfpd have this unique partnership where we

can institute this bike program that's the best way to get the bikes back to the owner. how many of you know your serial number right now. i don't but the whole part of this program obviously ate a theft deterrent but to match the owner of the bicycle back to the owner. this is the best possible way we know how to do this >> thank you are there any questions. >> if i may. thank you, officer for all the work you've been working closely with not only the supervisors office but the bicycle coalition. can you tell me about the staffing that the police department has. one of the points in the report

by budget and legislative analysts there's a lack of an approach to bicycle theft i don't know what it means. is there a centralized way to do this is there any intent to create that >> good morning. i'm deputy of chief of operations. as we all know we're at historic lows we're got less officers and we are at a low point and we're going obviously going to increase our numbers. bike theft is an issue with our police department.

we have matthew who is very passionate about bike theft. as our numbers increase i can very easily see us dedicating more resources to bicycle theft perhaps standardizing the procedures so when bicycles are stolen we have a standardized approach to how we check the bicycle owners. i think this program we're talking about today receive money that the board of supervisors so generally provided us is going to allow us to get the registration program off the ground. we're hoping this registration program will be a volunri