No one goes around stealing bikes just because they want to do bad things.
That's into the absurdist territory, but it reflects the real pattern of behavior. People do go around committing petty crimes for various reasons.
I think there are many other and better things to try than the repeated failure of trying to catch and punish crimes even more harshly.
The US tried "tough on crime" approaches, what has it resulted in? 25% of the entire world's prison population and it still has higher crime rates than its peer nations.