Apple Now Working With the NYPD To Curb iPhone Thefts

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:04AM from the hip-to-be-robbed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Back in late 2012, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributed the increase in statistical city-wide crime to Apple, noting that thieves had a propensity to target folks using iPhones and iPads. As an illustration of the problem, there were 3,890 more Apple product thefts than in 2012 than there were in 2011. At the time, Mayor Bloomberg's press secretary Marc La Vorgna explained that 'if you just took away the jump in Apple', crime in New York City would have been down year over year. Indeed, the number of major crimes reported in 2011 in NYC came in at 104,948 compared to 108.432 in 2012. If you exclude Apple related thefts from the figures, then the crime rate in 2012 is essentially the same as it was in 2011. In light of that, a new report from the New York Post details that Apple is now working with the NYPD in an effort to curb iPhone and other Apple related thefts."

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Re:How about bricking them? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-22 11:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

But that would reduce the likelihood of theft.
Which in turn would reduce 1) Apple street cred; 2) the need to purchase another Apple device.
Better to spend a few pennies on things like moisture detectors which presume that the consumer is a thief. That's the Apple way.