People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either. Phone are super expensive and phone snatching is a real thing.
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People say I’m blaming the victim when I tell people not to look at their screens while they walk, but you wouldn’t count a stack of $100 bills when you walk either. Phone are super expensive and phone snatching is a real thing.
This is odd. Phone snatching used to be a huge crime in NYC, but it has fallen off.
It's not really a thing anymore.
New Yorkers are very inattentive and constantly bumping into each other because we are staring at our phones.
My understanding is that in NYC a snatched phone can't be resold anywhere. Pawn shops are monitored. Targeting the middle men is critical.
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This is odd. Phone snatching used to be a huge crime in NYC, but it has fallen off.
It's not really a thing anymore.
New Yorkers are very inattentive and constantly bumping into each other because we are staring at our phones.
My understanding is that in NYC a snatched phone can't be resold anywhere. Pawn shops are monitored. Targeting the middle men is critical.
Maybe the London cops should stop hiring ex NYPD to teach them terrorism prevention and instead ask about the task forces that monitor the pawn shops and that track stolen phones.
It's possible to be a big chaotic city and NOT have this be a problem.
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Maybe the London cops should stop hiring ex NYPD to teach them terrorism prevention and instead ask about the task forces that monitor the pawn shops and that track stolen phones.
It's possible to be a big chaotic city and NOT have this be a problem.
This also makes me think that if NYPD really wanted to they could do something about bike theft. Which is massive in NYC, we are all resigned to the notion that bikes just always get stolen and you can't have a nice one and expect it to last overnight on the street.
Car theft also was once big in NYC, but it has not been a big problem since the late 90s.
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This also makes me think that if NYPD really wanted to they could do something about bike theft. Which is massive in NYC, we are all resigned to the notion that bikes just always get stolen and you can't have a nice one and expect it to last overnight on the street.
Car theft also was once big in NYC, but it has not been a big problem since the late 90s.
I want to emphasize that the solution to phone snatching was aggressive tracking of each and every stolen phone. Using the tech that's already in place to find where it went and doing something about it. It was not about chasing people around on the streets. It was about making every single pawn shop decide that buying a phone from some kid just wasn't worth it.
Boring stuff.
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I want to emphasize that the solution to phone snatching was aggressive tracking of each and every stolen phone. Using the tech that's already in place to find where it went and doing something about it. It was not about chasing people around on the streets. It was about making every single pawn shop decide that buying a phone from some kid just wasn't worth it.
Boring stuff.
@futurebird @davidho Per the article though, they were being wrapped in foil to prevent tracking and then shipped to China for resale.
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@futurebird @davidho Per the article though, they were being wrapped in foil to prevent tracking and then shipped to China for resale.
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@futurebird @davidho Although I know nothing about the actual stats, London is a low rise sprawl, so I'd expect the police to be spread more thinly on the street than in a more buit up area.. Could be one factor.
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@futurebird @davidho Although I know nothing about the actual stats, London is a low rise sprawl, so I'd expect the police to be spread more thinly on the street than in a more buit up area.. Could be one factor.
Maybe?
But it's not about cops being physically around ... it's how they respond when someone reports a stolen phone. They go into beast mode. They get the camera footage from the subway or business, they check the pawn shops for the serial number. They put in a lot of time and effort for this crime because they do seem to really want to prevent it.
It's mostly basic detective work. Done on a mass scale.
