<p>If you want to see bicycle theft, you’d have to visit a school in a very large city like Boston or New York. Bicycle theft is far more prevalent there because it turns into an underground economy, and you’re unlikely to ever run into the person whose bicycle you stole. For example, Harvard had 327 burglaries on campus in the last year reported, including 88 from their dorms. Princeton and Yale had 27 and 35 burglaries from their dorms, respectively, and far less than 100 each total. My friends in New York City had their $2,000 bicycles stolen right from a major street in Manhattan even though they were locked down with super-heavy chains and U-locks.</p>