The Times Cycling Campaign

Society has decided that crime is acceptable to a certain extent and that you carry a large part (if not all) of the responsibility to avoid it yourself.

Rubbish if this were case then we would not punish people who commit crime, would we? Depending on your point of view you could argue that the judiciary system is too lenient on petty criminals but that is a different argument altogether.

The fact of the matter is, even if 99.99999999999% of bikes sold in this country were never stolen, then a tiny minority would still be stolen and some people, myself included, would consider it prudent to ensure this did not happen to them. If you take Japan as an example where the level of petty theft is tiny people still lock their bikes, why do yo think that is?