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Park Station credits social media and new SafeBikes registry with quicker recoveries of stolen bikes
Summary
Park Station officials described a new anti‑bike‑theft effort that uses Twitter and a citywide bike‑registration database, SafeBikes, funded with $75,000 from the Board of Supervisors; officers said the approach helped identify and arrest a bike thief within hours of a public tip.
Captain Gregory Corrales, commanding officer at Park Station, told the San Francisco Police Commission at a community meeting that his district has paired social media with a new citywide bike‑registration program to speed recoveries of stolen bicycles. "Within 9 minutes, every policeman on patrol had a picture of that guy," Corrales said, describing how a Twitter photo led to an arrest the following day.
Corrales described the station’s anti‑bike‑theft…
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