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Re:In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proa... by coredog64 on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:19PM (#23351910)
Robbery has a specific legal connotation and is not equivalent to theft.

Theft is the unlawful taking of property. Robbery is a subset of theft where violence or the threat of violence is used to accomplish the taking.

Pickpockets are thieves, not robbers.

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Re:In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proa... by MiroF on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:22PM (#23351962)
You're absolutely right, I've edited my comment slightly.

I was making the assumption that total $ robbed was an upper bound on total $ pickpocket, which seems reasonable given what I've observed in the United States - but I am having trouble finding reasonable statistics about incidence in the United States.

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