NYC pickpockets target holiday crowds — and NYPD targets them; ‘Be aware and always try to hide your stuff’

Key Facts

• Pickpockets are taking advantage of unsuspecting people in big holiday season crowds throughout the city, police officials warned Saturday.
• While New Yorkers and tourists gathered to watch the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree light up in midtown on Wednesday night, the NYPD’s new Citywide Pickpocket Squad busted seven people for trying to lift cellphones and other belongings from distracted people in the crowd, cops said.
• Pickpockets are taking advantage of unsuspecting people in big holiday season crowds throughout the city, police officials warned Saturday.
• (Abby Wilson)

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