De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

It's important that people don't keep lumping these attacks and "bike theft" together.

Although there is the possibility of the rider's bikes being taken, this is violent mugging, and needs to be treated as such. Especially where the police are concerned.

Cutting a chain and taking a bike is very different to assaulting a person in the street.

I see it as banditry and we should revert back to the situation whereby they are declared criminal outlaws under common law.