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Q: Do you think China has more thieves and crime per capita ?
I wasn't originally concerned about thieves, but now I'm worried about the thieves that have targeted my GF. I lost my phone to pickpockets before I went home. I was warned a few times to watch out for some thief while in stores, I just bought a beer to use the bottle if I needed to. I'm reading horror stories about thieves in China like a woman in Guangzhou that tried to stop motorcycle thieves from stealing her purse had her hand chopped off. Thieves work in gangs. At home thieves are just welfare bums with nothing to do but scheme.
While not a crime, it should be. China has only 3% of world’s drivers but one of the highest per capita rates of road fatalities, approx 300 per day, which is about the same as Canada's yearly total. The cops at home would have a field day if they were in China, they couldn't write tickets fast enough.
Got any stories about Chinese thieves?
...do you count the people driving black Audi's as thieves ? If yes, then my answer would be "Hell Yes" if not, then I would think there is a lot of petty crime in China, but the big organized crime is left for the Audi people.
I've heard the handbag snatch ending in an arm getting chopped off story from a place I used to live. I don't worry about thieves myself, but then i'm six foot two and I don't carry a handbag. I'm far less concerned about violent crime here than I was in London though. As for the roads, I was thinking just half an hour ago that I should attach a camera to my shoulder and go filming for a day on the roads. Doesn't surprise me that China has such a high mortality rate with road accidents, people drive like total goobers. My wife said that when she was a kid there were very very few cars on the roads though, where she lived at least, and she's only 28. People drive like they're on bicycles.
Scandinavian:
I've seen 3 traffic accidents in the last 24 hours, and I've hardly been outside. One of the was from my living room window, a taxi drawing two long black lines on the pavement before slamming into the side of a BMW X1, the taxi passenger looked like he had been bumped around a lot, humped to the side of the road.
Hard to say...I have never been robbed here but my gf has a few times.
She is paranoid about criminals seeing me with her and then targeting her because they figure I am rich (didn't ya know...all loawai's are loaded!).
Like anything else in China if you have money and live in a nice secured complex and drive (or are driven like me) then the odds of falling prey are slim. I would never take the bus and I rarely take the MTR and I never venture into poor neighborhoods (at least not without a few local friends (MEN) with me to watch my back.
TedDBayer:
I spent more time in the poor areas. I thought if I want to see China, then this is it. I don't look down on people. I actually like the more rustic areas more than the new tall buildings with wide sidewalks,
Hulk:
I find that I have nothing to worry about in the poor areas, except from wildlife and strange hygiene tactics. Unless, of course, my mother-in-law, and now recently, her family, is present.
China has low street crimes than USA. Wikipedia Resources
TedDBayer:
That's reported muggings, I don't bei\lieve that anymore. What about all the street stealing and B&Es? Do homes and apartments in your country have bars on the windows? I don't lock my doors at home.
thedude:
Ted that may be true in a small town in Ontario but I would NEVER leave anything unlocked in Vancouver...too many junkies looking to steal for a fix.
I don't have access to the stats, (and even if I did, there would be a certain amount of distrust of them), but just the law of averages would suggest that crime PER CAPITA would be low, if for no other reason than the high number of people.
My perception is that violent crime is a lot lower but non-violent crime e.g. theft is much higher.
Of course if you include driving 'crimes' then China probably has the highest crime rate in the multiverse! 
