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And here I was thinking that in today's surveillance ridden landscape it's far harder to get away with crime

• jmnicolas 6y ago
  No you just catch the ones that didn't do their homework. Most of the (solved) crime news I read about, I'm always confounded how unaware criminals are about "tradecraft". For an example of stupid criminals, I remember reading in the local newspaper about a group of guys that had robbed a store of phone cards (the story is a bit old) and tried to sell them back to said store. Instead of using a public phone with one of those cards, they just used their own mobile phone to contact the store. Since in France you're required to give ID to get a SIM card, I'll let you guess how long it took the police to find the robbers :)
  • thinkingemote 6y ago
    It's survival bias in that we don't know about the criminals that get away with stuff, only the ones we catch. Most burglaries and robberies are performed close to where the criminal lives. They are mostly opportunistic crimes done criminals with no thought at the time of what they are doing and no fear of the consequences. The stereotypical version of that is the drug addict doing anything to get money for their fix, but generally it's associated with not very smart people who do stuff and do not fear the consequences.
  • speedgoose 6y ago
    In Belgium a group of robbers was told by a shop owner to not steal him now but to come back in the evening to steal more money from the cash register. He also managed to convince the police to be there in case they would come back, and they did. https://www.20minutes.fr/insolite/2359379-20181023-belgique-demande-braqueurs-repasser-plus-tard-accueillis-police-retour https://www.20minutes.fr/insolite/2359379-20181023-belgique-...