Students prove easy pickings for thieves: "In Leeds, around 60,000 students have just arrived, and most live within the LS6 postcode. It becomes a crime hotspot every autumn."
I don't suppose Leeds is the only place in the world where students are targeted for theft. When you think about it, young people are more and more carrying expensive little gadgets which can be snaffled and easily hidden. They have mobiles, MP3 and 4 players, laptops, pocket PCs , games gadgets. It must be a thieves paradise because none of these gadgets has a built in anti theft device or system. We are enticed into buying these things but then the technology doesn't provide any protection and you would think it possible. To a certain extent it would pay to stay behind the times and not equip yourself with teh latest gadgets. So how are kids, young adults and parents coping with this and are the police able to mange the amount of theft and so insurance companies pay out? It's all very well saying the young are not security conscious but they are enticed to buy these things, they are encouraged to think fo them as usual but the world doesn't provide them with a society which has any integrity. They are played for suckers and it's not fair nor right.
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