Originally Posted by
dhuey
Crap. I'm not sure if Prop. 47 is to blame, but something needs to be done about this crazy spike in property crime in California. Causes and solutions are topics for OMNI/PR, but the important thing for visitors to California to know is that there is this problem.
My prediction for when cellphones could be easily bricked was that the petty criminals were going to need something else to steal.
I just searched around and found this article.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476612,00.asp
" In San Francisco, cell phone robberies dropped 27 percent, while iPhone thefts were down 40 percent."