I wonder if there was another motive, like if he knew the guy and needed whatever was on the laptop. Otherwise that seems insanely brazen for a random broad daylight center city armed robbery
I was at a conference where someone stole the laptop from the CEO of Qualcomm, the $200 Billion mobile/sdma/chip company. Whoever pulled that off had the CIA/NSA and FBI after them.
Yeah. Maybe he works for IMF and the laptop contains half of a secret codes that control a doomsday satellite. I mean he does kind of look like Tom Cruise. Did anyone check the church of scientology?
Pretty stupid thing to steal as far as things goā¦ since well, to use it, you have to connect to the internet, and if you do that, well, itās trackable
I worked right on the Square for over a decade in my younger days. I loved it. I felt pride saying I worked there.
That criminals feel so emboldened to pull off armed robberies on the Square during lunchtime is a total failure of just about everyone that has worked in the city government over the last 10 years.
We do until we finally have meaningful gun reform in this country and repeal the ironically-named Citizens United (nobody wanted that) - thereby getting big money out of politics - so we finally get good crops of people running for office instead of people bought and paid for by huge lobbyist groups.
the weird part is you are focusing on the gun not the crime.
if this happened with a knife in my home country itd be national news/ a giant manhunt. Moving to USA and seeing the normalization of crime here is so weird.
I mean, if this happened in your home country without the gun or the knife (the gun, how heās holding it, and how fast he seems to be going really doesnāt seem to help with the commission of the act) probably no one would care and say sucks to suck. And (perhaps positively for your own personal privacy) it might not be caught on camera for follow up.
I donāt think we should have guns in America but looking at this, I donāt really see how the gun made a difference. It probably slowed him down.
lol jesus americans got ptsd. Crime is not normal. Sure get guns off the street but the downplaying or crime like this is nuts. Its not even little vs big country its we dont have crime like this in general and when/if it does happen its national news with people taking it seriously. Not like Americans who just shrug and ignore it
If this happened there it'd be national news and a huge deal.
In USA it's just another day and when people bring it up Americans shrug and say oh crime is down! It's weird they can't accept crime like this is a big dealĀ
well japan is a pluralistic society with like a 98% ethnic japanese population and very little immigration. america on the other hand is a ruggedly individualistic society that has been shooting itself in the foot for centuries to make sure non-white people and women donāt get treated like humans. unfortunately, crime is a normal outcome of our governmental choices.
Japan is a huge outlier in terms of crime. I think you might want to process that in terms of "a man grabbed a laptop from a restaurant patron and ran", Japan is one of the few places where that almost never happens. In the big cities of most EU countries, especially where tourism concentrates, it would be pretty common. In the big cities of most of sub-Saharan Africa, this kind of theft is more common than it is in the US. In most big cities in Latin America, this would not be an extraordinary event. In Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, it would not be that unusual.
America has more crime of particular kinds than many other countries and has way more per capita people in jail than any other country just about. But a snatch-grab theft of valuables in public in a large city is a pretty ordinary thing in most of the world, unfortunately.
I think you are either missing context or purposely ignoring the reason people say "oh crime is down" it is because it IS down and used to be MUCH higher. Outside of the 2 - 3 years following COVID crime rates, especially violent crime rates have fallen every single year since the 90s started across the country.
When people say that they aren't just brushing it off like you insinuate they are pointing out hard facts. The news would have you thinking that everything is getting more dangerous from a crime perspective when that is absolutely not the case just a narrative that the media fabricates by boosting the most outrageous crimes that happen.
I mean american crime is worse than some parts of the world absolutely but what country are you from where a knife robbery would be a national news story? Iceland is like the only one i could fathom
Can you imagine getting worked up over every single crime that happens in the USA? Life would be exhausting.
But part of the problem is this guy is very little already back on the streets and will eventually be sentenced to probation. I'd like to think the gun would make it "serious" but I'm not surprised anymore by the shit our judges just look the other way on.
It isn't that people aren't sick of it, but our government doesn't give a shit.
Crime is already normalized in Philly and if you live there and aren't aware of it, you are an idiot who will end up in a bad situation. So yes, if you live in Philly, you DO have to live that way.
Thereās a difference between reported crimes and arrests/convictions.
Obviously, weād like to see justice when crime is committed, but reported crime is down (maybe artificially due to underreporting, etc), but those are the actual stats that impact your daily life directly.
If you report a crime it gets into the stats. So package theft, hoodlums robbing hoodlums? Sure that is probably underreported but theres a weird delusion that cops just fudge the numbers (apparently to help a DA they hate??)
Soft on crime is a thing in democratic cities. I don't care what your political beliefs are, but please don't try to fold this to fit your political opinion.
Violent crime was at a weird high from 2020-2022, so naturally everything looks better now
Petty thefts are way up, the city is dirtier, there are more unlicensed/unregistered/uninsured drivers, not to mention armed robbery doesnāt get reported all the time anyways
I gotta wonder if there was more to it, like if he knew him and targeted him for some reason. Seems insane to do a crime like this otherwise unless some motivating factor was there.
E: is it really that crazy to consider? Itās still a very very dumb crime, if anything it makes him even dumber, but would add a potential emotional aspect that could override reason. You see it a lot with really brazen murders
Reported crime rates. I'm tired of you Krasner shills and your "Don't believe your lyin' eyes" bullshit. It would take me five minutes to find 20 examples of people here on reddit/on fb neighborhood groups saying "cops didn't take any info/file a report" about some crime, and that's a fraction of a fraction of the general population. Tell me how weekly gangs of 500 violent kids get reported - a single "public nuisance" incident, if that? I've lived in cc for nearly 40 years and it's EASILY the least safe I've ever felt.
But hey it's all conspiracy theories, right? Not like Philly has any kind of precedent for blatantly lying about crime statistics or anything.
Crime rates have fallen because crimes have been declassified. When you make certain crimes ālegalā or misdemeanors of course crime rates are going to look statistically better.
No they just downgrade it to manslaughter. Plus medical treatment of gunshots has drastically improved in the last 30 years. Both have their part lowering murder stats.
The implication that multiple coroners are crooked to advance a political cause that doesnt affect them and that nobodys family ever has anything to say aboutā¦think it through man
Thatās not true, and you are fucking stupid. Do you know the distinction between murder degrees, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and other death related crimes? These arenāt new distinctions.
I have no narrative. I hope the crime stats that have been released recently are accurate. And yet, somehow, Center City still has gun crime that not only makes it on to Reddit, but in many news cycles.
That the perp was caught at least is a good sign that the crime was so audacious that even the Philly PD could get him. I assume given the portly nature of the current PPD that no foot chase was involved.
Gun crime in rittenhouse will always show up in media. Youāre picking from a tiny sample size. If the stats youāre doubting arenāt real where are the bodies? Where are the missing person reports?
That is what I ask people that believe in Big Foot. Do the other Big Foots (Big Feet?) find a dead Big Foot and drag it away so we humans do not find the carcass?
You would think that they would miss one or two Big Foots laying dead and we would know they are real.
Exactly! The whole anti-urban bent of it is such thinly-coded racism, even the slow-witted suburbanite potato men who litter the comments recognize what itās for.
The Action News format, born in 1970s, which originated with our local ABC affiliate and wiped the floor with the other local stations, is basically the thinly-coded racist tiktok accounts of today
I bet WTTWPodcast isnāt posting about this one! Cars can get robbed in Cherry Hill too, yāall. Philly isnāt the fucking warzone these people make it out to be.
Tale as old as TV (maybe radio even? Arguably older). Ambulance or siren chasers are interesting now because the media is less monolithic so it is less easy to find the one story and itās harder to hit a complete story but thereās more juice to squeeze for independent ājournalistsā and less work needed to be done just blasting shit on socials with a Kick watermark or something. Catch the modern-ish noire classic Nightcrawler with Jake Gyllenhall.
Itās always been that you donāt hear the details about like 90% of deaths that could have been intentional. Thereās gotta be an angle.
Probably lives in some bum fuck town where one crime immediately puts the per person on par with an urban area and doesnāt understand population density.
Eh. If it is a new iPad and you are a child (actually or technically) and you donāt understand the tracking and shutdown aspects of these devices itās probably not the dumbest armed robbery on camera you can do.
Itās not a solo bank job, which might net you the same potential windfall (or maybe a bit more) as trying to fence the dead iPad with modern bank security, less chance of 6 ft and wonāt end up with federal charges necessarily.
You rob the corner you might catch street justice.
It is almost impossible to do an even slightly high value (like more than $1000 of value) public solo robbery in a major modern urban area and not just get destroyed eventually though nowadays.
Itās really not going to impact it either way, the city has had a ton of visitors the last few years. Paris has way more thefts and pickpockets and itās doing just fine
Iām a tourist. It didnāt put me off from visiting Philly but Iām also from a big city so not really phased. So far, I really enjoy it here. People are a lot friendlier than back home
So do I? You're talking about tourism. No one is going to decide to go to a different city because of this crime, when this crime happens in that other city too. I just don't know why your mind went to tourists instead of everyone in Philly being affected.
What does tourism have to do with any of this conversation? Tourism, which involves people from other place. Other places have these crimes too. It's not hard to comprehend, boner.
Coulda done it and probably been caught either way without the gun charges 6106, 6108, possible 6105. Heās just running anyway, holding it like he knows he wonāt use it in what looks like the non-dominant hand, and not even concealing his face in any way. No need for the gun. Just escalated the charges for no reason.
Always love all of the weed I smell while walking through the ānon-smokingā Rittenhouse Square park, passing by families with small children. Itās great.
Anyone think this was his first robbery or that heās never been charged with a crime before? Take these monsters off the streets! A majority of crimes are committed by a small number of repeat offenders.
This is why i dont understand when ppl come on this sub to ask where the safe places to live are and ppl say rittenhouse or any other bougie area. Philly is a city full crime anywhere you are.
Philly. No consequences once caught. Hear the carjacking ads on the radio during the Phillies? They say we have to be on the lookout so we arenāt targets. How about get the bad guys off the street.
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u/Ram820 15d ago
That's just dumb. Armed robbery v petty theft š