Bike thefts down, police say
Published: Monday, October 31, 2011
Updated: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 04:11
 "Photo: Megan Krol")
Megan Krol
Twenty-four bicycles were reported stolen on campus last year between August and October.
University police officials reported that bicycle thefts on campus have decreased 39 percent since last year, and they believe the downward trend will continue through the year.
University police Chief Patrick Ogden said 24 bicycles were reported stolen on campus last year between Aug. 28 and Oct. 25.
However, during the same time frame this year, only 13 bicycles have been stolen. Last year, there were 90 total bicycle thefts on campus, and police recovered 19 of those vehicles.
Ogden attributes the reduction to students being better informed about bicycle theft prevention techniques, such as securing their bicycle to racks with U-locks and in view of security cameras. He also said many stolen bicycles are not registered with the Office of Public Safety, which makes them more difficult to identify.
"If a bicycle is not registered with us, we recover the bicycle and we can't return it to the owner because we don't know who the owner is," Ogden said.
He said police bicycle theft statistics show there is no specific trend as to when or where bicycles are stolen from campus.
However, bicycles on racks, those secured with cable locks and mountain bicycles are the most susceptible to theft.
Students can also prevent a theft from occurring by securing their bicycle to a rack with a U-lock that is in a high traffic area and within range of a security camera.
Brian Bourdon, a mechanic at Bicycle Line on Main Street, said the most reliable way to secure a bicycle is to the use a U-lock in combination with a cable lock. The U-lock protects the frame of the bicycle, while the cable lock intertwines through the wheels.
However, he said just using a U-lock is often sufficient because bicycle wheels are not commonly stolen on campus.
Bourdon recommends students keep their bicycles inside their residences at night to protect them.
"There is a less chance that the bicycle will get stolen at night," Bourdon said. "Also, there's a lesser chance of drunken people kicking your wheels in, which seems to be a current theme, which bends the wheels."
He said bicycle lock sales at his store have increased by 13 percent compared to last year's sales.
"This year we have sold a lot more bike locks than in years past," Bourdon said. "I think it has a lot to do with the housing authorities, like [resident assistants], telling the students to come get good bike locks."
Senior Frank Lao's bicycle was stolen from a rack outside of his Dickinson dorm during his freshman year. He contacted campus police two days after seeing his bicycle outside of the Trabant University Center with a new lock.
Police were able to retrieve the bicycle and prove it was Lao's because he had previously registered the bicycle with university police.
Lao, who currently owns a more expensive bicycle since the incident, said he is hesitant about leaving it unattended.
"I keep my bicycle locked up in my room only because if someone doesn't belong in the dorms and is intentionally going to steal something I don't want it to be my bicycle," Lao said. "My bicycle is more expensive than my computer."
In July, university police arrested a serial bicycle thief using cameras around campus to identify the suspected thief. Police were able to catch the man due to an accurate physical description, and his pattern of travel.
Sophomore Gabrielle Perrotti said she does not worry about her bike when she secures it on campus property.
"I feel safer that bicycle theft is down," Perrotti said. "Sometimes I lock it under the Smith building against the railing over night and I've never had a problem with it."
Ogden said if students follow basic bicycle theft prevention methods, they will deter most thieves from stealing them.
"These people that are doing this are looking for the easy target," Ogden said. "So the harder you make it, the less likely it is that you're going to be a victim of a bicycle theft."
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Anonymous
That whistleblower up there in Lancaster Pa just kept running his mouth...We had to shut him up Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. We had to discredit him, nullify him, and silience him...We had too...He filed all those complaints against Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster Pa. He filed the formal "good faith" complaints:PHRC Case No. 200800802 and EEOC Case No. 17F200960329. Can you believe it???, 60 counts of harassment and discrimination against HACC in Lancaster PA. He was the fourth professor to be harassed and discriminated against at HACC in Lancaster, and chased off in less than three years, and fourth person if you count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L at HACC in Lancaster who was discriminated against and chased off too...We had to shut that big mouth professor and ex-U.S.soldier up...he just kept blowing the whistle. Who did he think he was? We are the law. We lied on the Unversity of Delaware police reports, lied for each other, and then told everybody the professor was lying...And then told everybody, everybody else told us that stuff on the University of delaware police reports...organized cause stalking. We do things differently down here in Delaware. We did everything we wanted to do. That whistleblower just kept running his mouth....
Anonymous
Dear Attorney General BEAU, U.S. Attorney General "the honorable" Eric Holder, PA Attorney General, Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, PA Governor, De Governor...I am communicating openly and honestly through freedom of speech and the freepress. Sometimes I served our country for, and very few people have....Wonderful, now the University of Delaware has Rogue Vigil-anti security guards running around framing whistleblowers for crimes. Can somebody do something about these "organized casue stalkers". I think Judge Jerome O. Herlihy you are 100% right below when you stated, "What are University of Delaware security guards heading to Lancaster Pennsylvania for anyway?" Maybe it's because there buddy was running back and fourth from HERSHEY, to LANCASTER, and back to NEWARK....Or from NEWARK to LANCASTER and up to HERSHEY? Stopping off at the IRON HILL in Lancaster pennsylvania. Who was this person inappropriate investigation and stalking the professor up in Lancaster pennsylvania? Maybe they were "cause stalking" under the cover of an investigation in another state. Perhap this is why the investigation began after the formal complaints:PHRC Case No.200800802 and 17F200960329. Why are the University of Delaware security reports riddle with lies Judge Jerome O.Herlihy? Why is a professor up in Lancaster Pennsylvania recieving text messages from 5 to 6 different phones Attorney General "Beau"? Why are they falsily accussing an ex-soldier of being dangerous, and having weapons and then busting into his house. When the professor is a pacifest, who has never owned a gun, and is both a reasonable man, and a gentle intellectual. Why they doing this U.S.attorney General "the honorable" Eric Holder? Why is an investigation starting a day after the formal complaints:PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329 reach Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster, and ending 10 months later, and three weeks before the Pa governor demands that the 60 counts of harassment and discrimination be answered by Harrisburg Area Community College in lancaster pa? Can you answer Pa Attorney General? Why is a Freemason named Ad Crable at the Lancaster newspaper immediately contacted the police about this, and posting lies about the professor on the internet 12x? Why is freemason named Ad Crable black listing and "internet blackballing" the professor 12x? You are both ethical and honorable Judge Jerome O. Herlihy...Why is this freemason doing this? Why are these security manufacture crime, through trickery, and creating the illusion somebody is dangerous, has weapons, and is time-bomb. When it is just a lie, It is just lie...Why or they doing this Forensic psychologist Dr. Robert G. Thompson of the Delaware psych Clinic in NEW CASTLE? Why was the professor mobbed and harassed starting just after his girlfriend lost a baby, and entered the HESHEY MEDICAL CENTER...And the mobbing ended on year later only after the professor took action, and had spoken to an academic attorney, and then called the Pa Governors office. Can you answer me Governor of Pennsylvania? And before do...this mobbing and harassment happened to two others professor, and one homosexual who was discriminated against at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster. "four people in less than three years were driven off" An outsider, an outspoken professor, a whistleblower, and a homosexual at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster. Why is a prosecutor and a public defender "making deals"? And judge Jerome O. Herlihy is catching their bizarre behavior. Now we have transcripts. Now have numerous emails...Why are these two doing this, and the judge is catching the two. Journals were kept. Two professor had called the professor and told out right, "keep track of everything". Now what going here U.S. Attorney General "the Honorable" Eric Holder? Judge Jerome O. Herlihy can you please help? They accussed a professor of wanting to blow up the University of Delaware, and kill more kids then Virginia Tech...they had script. They were "gaslighting the professor". Just making stuff in the interrogation, and they did not provide him with an attorney. Can please explain this behavior Delaware Attorney General "Beau"? We are educated here, and we understand a little about the law, and we understand what corruption is? Why are they attempting to get somebody diagnosed with schzophrenia, or being dellusion, and dangerous Forensic Psychologist and criminologist Dr. Robert G. Thompson at the Delaware psych clinic? It was almost pretty clever, but sinister at the same time. We may not be as smart as Univerisity of Delaware security guards but maybe we could figure this out. Why would a veteran of the U.S. Army suddenly be crazy, and lying to the pa governor on the formal complaints: PHRC Case no.200800802 and EEOC Case No. 17F200960329. Why is the professor being baited, tricked, lured and provoked in Fake Stalking charges and false harassment charges. Now he was ex-recon, if...
Anonymous
That big mouth whistleblower just kept running his mouth judge Jerome O. Herlihy. Well we shut him up, and "we did everything we wanted to do" judge...lol Damned big mouthed left wing liberal. I hate em...manufacture crimes against him. lol
Anonymous
That big mouth sociologist, that entered you courtroom in late decmeber of 2010, just kept running his mouth Judge Jerome O. Herlihy of the Delaware superior court in Wilmington. You know the one Judge Jerome O. Herlihy that filed all thost complaints with the Pa Governor's office.The big mouth that you stated "wasn't dangerous, and that there was nothing wrong with him. And state what are university of delaware security guards headed to lancaster Pa for anyway? The teacher, you remember judge Jerome o. herlihy? You stated this entire thing was weird. Well we kept all the evidence out of your hands. We gave you the whistleblower case piece meal with out a time-line. That called "cause stalking" and "mobbing" Judge Herlihy. We baited, lured, provoked, agitated that big mouth, and then created the illusion a horrific crime occurred so we could nullify the big mouth, discredit the whistleblower, and silence him from running his mouth. "We did everything we wanted to do." lol We had to shut him up and blackball the big mouth whistleblower on the internet. We blacklisted that whistleblower on the internet 12x. Oh, those whistleblower numbers are as followed:PHRC Case no.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329. We were both clever and sinister judge jerome O. Herlihy, damnded big mouthed sociologist just kept journals on us. other professor told him to do that. Damned left wing liberals! So we shut that big mouth whistleblower up, and black listed him with some of our boys including "old Freemason" Ad Crable of the lancaster paper. It was easy...
Anonymous
Dear Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, U.S.attorney general "the honorable" Eric Holder, De attorney general "beau"
This is what we get paid to do judge Herlihy by U.D. That big mouth whistleblower Judge Jerome O. herlihy, that came through your courtroom in late december of 2010, just kept running his mouth. We had to shut that big mouth liberal up who filed all those complaints on our brothers at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster. He just kept running his mouth Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. It was easy, we just started rumors about him. We told everybody he was dangerous, aggressive, on drugs, a racist, unstable, a loose cannon, a time-bomb, and that he had weapons. Of course he was a pacifest, who never owned a gun in his life, and never did drugs in his life. A reasonable man, who considered to be a gentle intellectual. Well, we mobbed and harassed like you wouldn't believe. For a whole year starting in Late December of 2007 and continued to harass him until August of 2008. We didn't realize it but that big mouth whistleblower was keeping track of everything in journal, and filed those formal complaints on us with Pa Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission and EEOC. We got a freemason boys to follow the big mouth whistleblower around. We stalked him. We had to shut him up! After the complaints: PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329 reached hacc in Lancaster, that is when our first U.D. security report showed up. We launched a cause stalking campaign against that ex-U.S.soldier/big mouth whistleblower. It was easy mobbing him! He was alone in Lancaster Pa, so we just kept mobbing him. 10,20, 30 of us masonic mobbers against one guy, who do you think they are going to believe Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. Then we set boy up in court. Made deal, but you caught us Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. What can one target individual do against a mob lying about him. Of course the big mouth told the truth, but who believe him? We lied on the U.D police reports about him. Those U.D.reports were riddled with lies. And then we had our "trustworthy witness" calling in to the U.D.security station, and reported all his lies. We all lied, and then lied for each other, and then said the big mouth outsider in lancaster was the liar. Easy as pie. Of course he was telling truth and he was honest. there were just too many of us masonic mobbers! Then we sent him text message from 5 to 6 different cell phones. Agitating him, baiting him, and provoking him!!! We threw our messages away, and lied on the police reports and kept that big mouth whistleblowers text messges, and then we just presented those messages to you judge jerome o. herlihy. The whistleblower didn't even know where he was at we harassed so much. We exhausted him and wore out by mobbing him. lol Works everytime! We didn't communicate him, and just told people we communicated with him. Who would believe him. There were more of us, then just the big mouth whistleblower. Of course we ran three professor off at Harrisburg Area Community college in lancaster in three years, and a fourth person if you count the homosexual we discriminated against. Of course "old freemason" Ad Crable never reported any of these professor being harassed and ran off. Old Fremason ad crable, helped up "internet blackball the professor. Old Freemason Ad Crable black listed the professor 12x on the internet. Just like old time! In lancaster we run off the outsider, activist, the outspoken, homosexual, whistleblowers, or just anybody who different. The police cause, harass, and stalk people too. We create an arrest record in order to prove that the Target individual is a trouble maker. Just like that whistleblower professor of sociology. Then we try say they are nuts, have schzophernia, or dellussional or something like that, so that nobody believe the whistleblower. Works everytime! We created crime by trickery. We create the illusion of a horrific crime, and then we discredited that big mouth, nullified that whistleblowers, and silenced that big mouth. We get away everytime judge Jerome O. herlihy. thanks for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress.
This is what we get paid to do judge Herlihy by U.D. That big mouth whistleblower Judge Jerome O. herlihy, that came through your courtroom in late december of 2010, just kept running his mouth. We had to shut that big mouth liberal up who filed all those complaints on our brothers at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster. He just kept running his mouth Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. It was easy, we just started rumors about him. We told everybody he was dangerous, aggressive, on drugs, a racist, unstable, a loose cannon, a time-bomb, and that he had weapons. Of course he was a pacifest, who never owned a gun in his life, and never did drugs in his life. A reasonable man, who considered to be a gentle intellectual. Well, we mobbed and harassed like you wouldn't believe. For a whole year starting in Late December of 2007 and continued to harass him until August of 2008. We didn't realize it but that big mouth whistleblower was keeping track of everything in journal, and filed those formal complaints on us with Pa Governor's office of the Human Relations Commission and EEOC. We got a freemason boys to follow the big mouth whistleblower around. We stalked him. We had to shut him up! After the complaints: PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329 reached hacc in Lancaster, that is when our first U.D. security report showed up. We launched a cause stalking campaign against that ex-U.S.soldier/big mouth whistleblower. It was easy mobbing him! He was alone in Lancaster Pa, so we just kept mobbing him. 10,20, 30 of us masonic mobbers against one guy, who do you think they are going to believe Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. Then we set boy up in court. Made deal, but you caught us Judge Jerome O. Herlihy. What can one target individual do against a mob lying about him. Of course the big mouth told the truth, but who believe him? We lied on the U.D police reports about him. Those U.D.reports were riddled with lies. And then we had our "trustworthy witness" calling in to the U.D.security station, and reported all his lies. We all lied, and then lied for each other, and then said the big mouth outsider in lancaster was the liar. Easy as pie. Of course he was telling truth and he was honest. there were just too many of us masonic mobbers! Then we sent him text message from 5 to 6 different cell phones. Agitating him, baiting him, and provoking him!!! We threw our messages away, and lied on the police reports and kept that big mouth whistleblowers text messges, and then we just presented those messages to you judge jerome o. herlihy. The whistleblower didn't even know where he was at we harassed so much. We exhausted him and wore out by mobbing him. lol Works everytime! We didn't communicate him, and just told people we communicated with him. Who would believe him. There were more of us, then just the big mouth whistleblower. Of course we ran three professor off at Harrisburg Area Community college in lancaster in three years, and a fourth person if you count the homosexual we discriminated against. Of course "old freemason" Ad Crable never reported any of these professor being harassed and ran off. Old Fremason ad crable, helped up "internet blackball the professor. Old Freemason Ad Crable black listed the professor 12x on the internet. Just like old time! In lancaster we run off the outsider, activist, the outspoken, homosexual, whistleblowers, or just anybody who different. The police cause, harass, and stalk people too. We create an arrest record in order to prove that the Target individual is a trouble maker. Just like that whistleblower professor of sociology. Then we try say they are nuts, have schzophernia, or dellussional or something like that, so that nobody believe the whistleblower. Works everytime! We created crime by trickery. We create the illusion of a horrific crime, and then we discredited that big mouth, nullified that whistleblowers, and silenced that big mouth. We get away everytime judge Jerome O. herlihy. thanks for allowing me to express my freedom of speech through the freepress.
Anonymous
Dear Judge Jerome O. Herlihy, U.S.attorney general "the honorable" eric holder Pa Attorney General, De attorney general "beau" There is some type of gang stalking going on where security guards and others are baiting, luring, agitating, and provoking whisteblower into crimes. They creating the illusion was is dangerous, and has committed a horrific crime, through trickery. The crime is manufactured with the purpose to discredit, nullify, and silence a whistleblower. The above article, this is what the U.D. security should be working on: stolen bikes, stolen books, underage drinking etc, and not electonically harassing by cell phone, and cause stalking target individuals, and mobbing whistleblowers in other states. You should not be engaging in "Organized Gang Stalking" of whistleblowers that file formal complaints against corrupt freemason's at Harrisburg Area Community College in lancaster pennysylvania. Remember those complaints:PHRC Case No.200800802 and EEOC Case No.17F200960329. You know the 60 counts of harassment and discriminated filed against Harrisburg Area Community in Lacnaster? Three professors harassed, and ran off, and if count the H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L who discriminated against at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster it was four people harassed and discriminated against in three years. This pattern of harassment in Lancaster. forensic psych Doctor Robert G. Thompson, "Don't you think they are corrupt up in Pennslvania too? They really wanted to hurt. They wanted to get you for as much as they could. You were smart. i believe they wanted to do a lot more. I believe you, and support you." Pa State Trooper on the seen of the breaking through the pacifest professor house through the window, "I have never seen anything like this. You don't have any guns. This certainly isn't state police protocol. We just call people. we just don't come out and break into their houses. We communicate with people. 90% of the stuff they took had nothing to do with any charges. You should get it all back. this doesn't make any sense. They were walking across the street in the middle of a summer day to neighbors who they knew were home. And talking to that like they knew them. This is weird!" In late December of 2010 a professor came through your courtroom judge Jerome O. Herlihy and you stated, "has this attorney even communicated with you at all? He is no good. get rid him. He is not helping you. Where did you get this guy. You are not dangerous. Jail is for dangerous people and you are certainly not one of those people. You are not nutz! There is nothing wrong with you. What kind of deal did these two give you. tell me. What is he whispering? don't listen to him. what he did say? This is strange. What are University of Delaware security guards headed to Lancaster Pennsylvania for anyway? this doesnt make any sense. You are from York, and this happened in Lanaster. This is weird." FBI agent, "University of Delaware security guards heading to Lancaster Pennsylvania? huh. This is weird! I am going to look into this. You have a lot of material. This doesn't make any sense?" They created this illusion that the pacifest professor who never owned a gun in his life, and never did drugs was: dangerous, aggressive, a time-bome a racist, unstable, on drugs, and had weapons. he was gentle intellectual and a reasonable man. They accussed him of wanting to blow the University of delaware, and kill more kids then virginia tech. through him jail at 30x more then normal amount. This is bizarre Judge Jerome O. Herlihy the University of Delaware police reports were riddled with lies. A "trustworthy witness" was calling in to the U.D.security dept and was lying about everything he stated on the U.D.security reports. The professor computer was dumped, and HACKED into. From Late May of 2007 to August of 2008 the professor was mobbed, and harassed at the school It was bizarre. They were harassing the professor like Freemason/union construction workers and truckers are known to do to Non-freemason/non-union truck drivers and construction workers on site. this harassment was intense! It was reported to the Pa Governor. It was reported to the dean at HACC Lancaster 12x in Late May 07 to July of 07. The dean at HACC did nothing, and denied it! It's all been documented. Why would an ex-U.S.soldier with three honorable discharge lie. They were stalking and harassing the professor in phases according to the time-line developed by the ACLU. felony retaliation of a whistleblower, police misconduct, malicious prosecution of a whistleblower. Thanks for allowing me express my freedom of speech through the freepress.
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