英语资讯：手机超过钱包成为小偷的首要目标

2021年1月26日发(作者：maleficent)
Mobile phones have overtaken purses and wallets as the top target for muggers,
new crime figures have revealed.

新出台的犯罪数据显示，手机已经超过钱包跃居小偷的首要目标。


The Crime Survey for England and Wales said cash and wallets had 'consistently
been targets for thieves' but the soaring cost of mobile phones had made them the
number one target.

New analysis of the figures, released by the Office for National Statistics this morning,
found gadgets1 like iPhones are stolen in more than half of all muggings.

The crime survey said the increasing cost of smartphones was making them
'appealing targets for thieves'.

Today's report states: 'As more people carry valuable electronic gadgets, these too
have become desirable targets.

'About half of theft from the person incidents involved the theft of a mobile phone,
where previously2 cash and wallets/purses were most commonly stolen in this type
of crime.'

Sat Navs meanwhile have replaced radios and CDs as the top target in car crime,
according to this morning's official figures.

The report said: 'Theft of electrical equipment such as satellite navigation systems
occurs in about one fifth of incidents of theft from vehicles
–
a much higher
proportion than ten years ago when more common targets for thieves were car
radios and CDs.'

Computers and jewellery are the most commonly- stolen items in domestic burglaries.

Laptops, tablets and other home computers were stolen in nearly two fifths of
domestic burglaries.