a) Yes
b) So Cal Meaning…minor stealing or borrow without permission.
c) 67
A) Yes
B) Southern California. To steal, especially to lightfinger or pocket surrepticiously
C) 56
a. Yes, I always assumed it was spelled “kype”; I heard it as a child in
b. Oregon
c. 61
I learned it from childhood associates, I did not hear it in my family.
Roddy
Gank is what I’ve used, learned it from my friend from Pennsylvania.
Haven’t heard kipe.
33
Southern Indiana
no
South Jersey/Philadelphia
50
I think your posit is correct. Heavily weighted towards the West Coast area from CA. to WA.
Yes, “minor” stealing such as cookies when you’re mom said no more.
American southwest
53, I heard this term by the time I was 6
Yes, Ct. 1970’s
Same sense really. To cop a feel is to sneak up and steal one. 
A) Yes
B) I heard it first in Phoenix, AZ in 1988
C) 40
Having heard the term fairly late in life, and being told it had racist overtones, I just avoid it and WONDER if I should wince when others say it. 
What was the nature of this “racist overtones” thing? What’s it supposed to relate to?
A) Kind of. I looked at the word and realized it’s a word I hadn’t heard in a long time, but guessed its meaning straight away, so I must have heard it somewhere. No clue where, though.
B) Chicago. No idea where I learned it, if it was from one of the older people in the neighborhood or elsewhere.
Meaning “steal”? I think it’s pretty much obsolete now, but I do remember hearing it in the 1960s when I was a kid. Even then it was a lot less common, but meant about the same thing as “swipe”. I would have spelled it “kipe” if I’d have had to write it down.
ETA: I don’t remember where I heard it. My dad said it sometimes, but only in a joking or ironic manner. FTR his family brought him to L.A. when he was eight, in 1932, and I was raised there.
a. Never heard it
b. New England
c. 50
I don’t know! The closest thing I can think of is it could be a corruption of “kike” which is a derogatory term for Jews. Since “kipe” means steal, I figured it went hand in hand with the ‘greedy sneaky Jew’ stereotype.