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J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >, says...
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> "Storrmmee" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

One of the downsides of socialized medicine? Treatment denied in order
to serve a political purpose?

> 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-