The one thing I like about the USA's significantly more violent culture is the idea that pickpockets will get the shit beat out of them or worse.

No one gets beaten up in the US.

They get shot.

	▲	VerifiedReports 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Only if they're regular citizens. Somehow masked federal thugs don't get shot; somehow the 2nd Amendment gun-humpers who so opposed federal tyranny have disappeared.

This is a myth. The police will usually arrest the victim and the the criminal go because it's easier for them.