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What can they do? It's obviously in the city's interest to squash the pick-pocketing as much as possible, but it's not easy to police against. It's like bike th
by cr1895 10y ago
What can they do? It's obviously in the city's interest to squash the pick-pocketing as much as possible, but it's not easy to police against. It's like bike theft. Bikes get stolen all the time but there's little that can be done to stop it.
I tend to avoid areas where they'd congregate and I don't especially look like a tourist, so there's probably some confirmation bias at play.
- pmoriarty 10y agoWhat about using surveillance cameras? I presume that pickpockets aren't going around wearing masks, so it should be possible to identify them from surveillance camera footage, no?
- cr1895 10y agoStations and even heavily trafficked parts of the RLD are already covered with cameras, so they're clearly only so effective.
- posterboy 10y agoI take it you didn't read any discworld novells. There, the thieves guild is allowed a low ratio of unprocecuted thieving in return for their protection from unlicensed thieves.