The University Police Department has seen an increase in the theft of bicycles, electric scooters and electric bicycles on and around Grounds in the first weeks of the fall semester. UPD Sergeant Beckett Thelen said that an increase in these types of thefts is typical for the start of the fall semester, but that the number of thefts has increased by an unusually large amount – between 30 and 35 percent – as compared to this time last year.