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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by analogmemory on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:49PM (#12432860)
The people selling stolen bikes often don't put much information, so you'd get lots of false positives.
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Re:A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves by taeric on Monday September 05, 2016 @11:07PM (#12433432)
You might get a lot of false positives. I'd go so far as to say it is likely.

However, the point is the algorithm may just surface a pattern that you hadn't considered.

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