It seems like there actually was some value to this part:

> allowed police to speed up investigations into bike thefts by being able to pinpoint bikes in the footage

Normal procedure as far as I know is you keep recordings for 48h or whatever, and if someone reports their bike as stolen a human reviews the footage to see if they can find anything. If you can use ML or something to tag the snippets in the last 24h that contain bikes being moved, that's more efficient use of taxpayer-funded police officers' time?