Maybe because when people do a crime now, it is more violent. São Paulo (where I live) this article also applies... São Paulo is huge, and has some subways, th

Maybe because when people do a crime now, it is more violent. São Paulo (where I live) this article also applies... São Paulo is huge, and has some subways, that were in the past filled with pickpockets. Now we have for example the fact that in the last year alone we had a rise of more than 100% (don't remember the exact number) in violent robberies. This year alone (and the year is not even over) we had also around 100% increase in robberies that end in death. I seriously would prefer someone would try to steal stuff from my pocket, instead of pointing high caliber guns at my head (and this part of guns at my head already happened twice to me personally).