I've been a tourist in 40 of our 50 states over my lifetime, and I have never, not once, ever had anyone attempt to pick my pocket! Yet I've had an attempted pickpocketing in Rome, had two attempts to to steal my watch off my wrist (an old, ordinary looking Seiko with a plastic band) in Lima, Peru, and my wife's wallet was stolen in Amsterdam.

Feel free to draw your own conclusions!