interesting. I should have said he was discussing, these three in
comparision as they are the three most popular destinations for those
travelling to the us... I guess i figured paris would be worse, and for no
particular reason, maybe just personal perceptions...

I hope your friend is ok now.

Lee
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>>i was just listening to a radio show, Howard Clark, maybe... he made the
>>comment that of the three most popular places to visit, london, Paris, and
>>Rome, that pickpocketting was most often occuring in Rome. I have no
>>reason to doubt he was quoting a reliable source, but it struck me as odd
>>So if you know could you confirm or deny please,
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> You can't count on the record keeping that results on these reports. Most
> of the pickpocketing is done by mobile bands of crooks who go where the
> tourists are. That can be anywhere.
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> It is sometimes done that police don't record crimes to keep their city
> "clean." My friend was badly hurt in Barcelona but was not xrayed at the
> hospital and had a piece of tape to hold together the head wound she got.
> Why? Because if they gave her an xray or sewed her up they had to report
> it as a crime. When she came back here she was found to have a concussion
> and a hairline fracture of the skull. She could have died.
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> There is now a website dedicated to reporting crimes against travelers in
> Barcelona, because it's pretty bad and the cops are covering up. So which
> of the biggest cities has the most petty crime? Who knows-
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