• Godric@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Pickpocketing is happening in every major US city with numbers rising from year to year: So US citizens thinking they’re superior when they arent.

    Thank you for your screenshot of a study about “concern over pickpocketing”. Europe still proceeds to take more of the top 10 spots.

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      2 months ago

      alright, so it’s one in east asia, one in turkey, five in europe, and three in the usa. the europe/usa ratio roughly matches the population ratio. the point stands that it’s still very comparable by population (which a top ten cities list is not suited to describing)

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        2 months ago

        Ok but the US points in the pickpocket column are pretty low compared to Europe’s. Other forms of stealing are plenty common in America, it’s just that we’re a lot more likely to get shown a gun and asked to empty our pockets ourselves than have the thief covertly do it for us.