I like that BPD is focusing on intelligence/disruption rather than street chases but it seems like this is not as urgent as it was a year or two ago when BPD was regularly:

• Using MA fire/building codes regarding "storage of gas powered vehicles near "dwellings"" to bust and cite the houses where these bikes are stored. Of course when it came time to issue the citation nobody on site was willing to declare themselves the owners of these vehicles so they were seized
• Working with other city cops like the thing they did with Dedham PD where they waited in a parking lot and busted the "mothership" cargo truck that was delivering a boxtruck full of bikes to unload at their staging area

Basically this is good news but 40 bikes is nothing. In other years they were seizing those quantities every other month during summer it seemed like

But to be honest this is an escalating race of evade and detect. Just the fact that these gangs were using box trucks as motherships to "deploy" their fleets of vehicles in out of the way staging grounds away from Boston proper kinda blew my mind as it was actually a good tactic