Research in Brief: Bicycle Patrols for Drug Market Disruption

The Impact of a Police Bicycle Unit in the Largest Drug Market on the Eastern Seaboard

In 2016, 33 percent of local law enforcement agencies used bicycle patrols on an as-needed basis, with 6 percent utilizing them regularly.

This marked a slight increase from 2007 when around 27 percent had regularly scheduled bicycle patrols.1