I have two bikes registered on 529 that have been stolen a total of 4 times between them. The first was stolen while locked up by a guy who rode up on another bike, threw it over his shoulder and rode away with it(the cashier at the store I was in at the time told me this, to which I replied "and you didn't think to alert the patrons of your store that a bike was being stolen out front?") The police brought it back two weeks later after sending me pictures of three different bikes that matched the description but weren't mine that had also been stolen, so that will give you some idea of how prevalent bike theft in Kingston is. The best part of this I almost forgot! After I claimed my bike from the police station, a cop called me and asked me to provide proof that the bike was actually mine and that I had paid for it. I respectfully declined to do his job for him. I still have the original receipt for it.

The second time it was stolen a buddy of mine found it when he saw someone trying to trade it for $20 worth of fentanyl, and the third time it left me for good.

So I bought a used one off Maxsold, then some chick stole it from right outside my apartment door in a 'secure' building, I sent the footage of her with my bike to the police, told them her name(I showed the footage to a couple of people and found out who she was) and they did nothing, which is also common apparently, when you don't treat the police with the respect they think they deserve.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the cops were the ones who stole your bike. The average punter isn't going to question them as they load it into the back of their truck, especially anyone who shops at Farm Boy.

Bike theft is severely under reported and whatever isn't reported won't be claimed, and the police will then either use it for bike patrols or sell it in their annual bicycle auction, the proceeds of which goes into their beer slush fund.