Less Snatch And Grab ?

[Johnny]

I've been back in BsAs for a bit more than half a year after a two year absence. I seem to notice less snatch and grab incidents than when I previously lived here (for six years). I can remember personally witnessing a lot of open theft on the streets and was a victim once myself. I've witnessed not one incident since my return.

What do you think ? Less snatch and grab ?

 

[Alicia karr]

I was thinking the same thing--haven't been hearing about as much street crime in capital, I think they've all gone out to the provincia from what I HAVE been hearing!

 

[estebandepraga]

Instead of snatching they just kill you and then clear you out! After my stabbing this year, I have such a different outlook on crime and the ways to handle the culprits but if I put here what I really think, I'll probably be banned so what you say can't be used against you! Just use your imagination! Quite a different BA and country than I knew when I was younger

 

[Ries]

I think that there is less, but I also think that after you have been here for a while, you learn to make yourself a less desirable target.
While I think there are still lots and lots of poor people out past the ring road, in the C.F., I have noticed a huge increase in wealth on the streets.
I see porsches, audis, and BMW's every day, all over Recoleta and Palermo.
These are not tourists, obviously.
And the guys driving those cars, with their double breasted blazers, 2400 peso loafers, and ten thousand dollar gold watches, are the targets that pop up first.
Me, I am wearing an $18 plastic watch, and look odd, but not rich.
Given the choice, the moto chorros seem to go for the fat targets, and there is no shortage of them these days.
I was just at Arte BA tonight, and the rich casual dudes, and their christina lookalike wifes were out by the hundreds, literally.
Dont look like them, and your chances of being hit are much lower.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Anecdote is not the best way to evaluate crime, petty or otherwise, but in the absence of reliable statistics - thanks, INDEC! - people will do so.

So here's mine: I've never been a crime victim in Buenos Aires, though I always stay aware of my surroundings. The only snatch-and-grab I've ever experienced was in Belém, where an inept Brazilian kid tried to take the cheap Casio off my wrist. He ran away when I yelled at him.

 

[Sleuth]

One of our renters had her bag grabbed in Palermo Hollywood just last week. Make what you will of it...

 

[Cecil Fox Palmer]

On the week my mother was visiting in 2013, we witnessed at least 3 attempted "snatch and grabs". Haven't seen any before or since.

I often wonder what could someone take from me if they tried to rob me. I don't even have a cellphone on me and keep my $50 and SUBE in my pockets.

 

[Girino]

On the week my mother was visiting in 2013, we witnessed at least 3 attempted "snatch and grabs". Haven't seen any before or since.

I often wonder what could someone take from me if they tried to rob me. I don't even have a cellphone on me and keep my $50 and SUBE in my pockets.

I don't think they even know what you have in your bag, they just spot a promising "prey" and act on that.

 

[citygirl]

I don't think there is any way to quantify it since a) most people don't report crimes, much less attempted robberies and B) even the statisttics they do have are questionable here.

I will say in pvca, it seems every single person that works for us has been a victim of a crime recently. Generally violent though - guns to the head to steal whatever they were carrying or home invasions. These are happening in poor neighborhoods. My housekeeper has been out the past 2 days since they broke into her house Tuesday night and beat her husband with a tire iron and he has been in the hospital.

 

[estebandepraga]

the situation is out of control! what is this place coming to?