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Have we done this:
[url= http://road.cc/content/news/36808-police-stats-reveal-uks-recorded-bike-crime-hotspots-how-does-your-area-fare ]http://road.cc/content/news/36808-police-stats-reveal-uks-recorded-bike-crime-hotspots-how-does-your-area-fare[/url]
Top 10 police forces for bike thefts in 2010
Police area Reported thefts
Metropolitan Police 21,315
Thames Valley 6,060
Greater Manchester 5,185
Cambridgeshire 4,477
Avon and Somerset 3,895
West Midlands 3,222
Leicestershire 3,057
Lancashire 2,727
Sussex 2,668
Humberside 2,440
More detailed per capita stats on the link. Bristol isn't as bad as the threads on here would point to.
I'd be willing to bet the figures would be a lot closer if you looked at the population served by each of the police forces. Not saying that London still wouldn't be at the top but I reckon that the difference wouldn't be anything like more than 5 times as bad.