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> Phone snatching in Central London has become a significant issue, with the Metropolitan Police reporting around 80,000 phones stolen last year, primarily by o
by johnisgood 1y ago
> Phone snatching in Central London has become a significant issue, with the Metropolitan Police reporting around 80,000 phones stolen last year, primarily by organized criminal gangs. To combat this, police have increased visibility and implemented operations to deter theft, particularly in hotspot areas.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/26/mobile-phone-theft-europe-uk-police https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/26/mobile-ph...
If you do not like The Guardian, search for "central london phone snatching".
- vidarh 1y agoYes, that's a lot. And yet per the Crime Survey, in London we are less likely to be a victim of crime than in the country as a whole, and crimes are at one of the lowest levels in decades based on interviewing people about whether they have been victims of crime, not police reports or press.
- johnisgood 1y agoYou are free to believe that, but I would still be on alert.
- vidarh 1y agoI'm not going to live in fear due to the fevered fictions drived by the gutter press and not supported by any data.
- johnisgood 1y agoI would not care about the data. Just go out and see for yourself. Maybe you are lucky and you somehow manage to avoid these areas or you go there at the time when not much is happening, like early in the morning or whatever. Additionally, being alert does not equal to living in fear.
- vidarh 1y agoI have "gone out and seen for myself" and what I see has consistently matched the data. What you're describing here reads very much as cowering in fear to me. And this kind of fear-mongering with no relation to reality is actively harmful and part of what is seriously damaging the UK as a society.
- johnisgood 1y agoLook, they are not active all the time. 10 am in the morning on a Monday on a particular street, nothing might happen. It varies and I have no inside information. If you look it up, you can see these snatching, it is recorded by CCTVs.
- vidarh 1y agoLooking at individual thefts is irrelevant. The aggregate data is what matters to my actual risk, and the actual data shows that the numbers are not significant.
- johnisgood 1y agohttps://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-2025-0150/#:~:text=This%20is%20equivalent%20to%20200,stolen%20in%20London%20in%202024 https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cdp-...
- johnisgood 1y agohttps://crimestoppers-uk.org/news-media/news/2025/aug/currys-launch-mind-the-grab-phone-theft-initiative https://crimestoppers-uk.org/news-media/news/2025/aug/currys... Thoughts?
- vidarh 1y agoA company is engaging in a marketing stunt for a problem that people perceive to be disproportionately high. Do you think this tells us anything other than perception? Which several people have already pointed out we know are out of whack with actual survey of peoples actual experience with crime? It's clear there are many phone thefts. It's also clear people believe the extent of crime is far higher than it is. It seems like a perfect thing for a company like Curry's to profit from.