1. Dangled football shirts in our face
2. was a few days ago in Bogota during a walking tour my wife had her phone in her inside pocket that I just passed to her, she was spat on, shouted at and blocked by people in an organised gang and took her phone, it happened very fast. They watch and follow tourists right in front of police so don’t rely on their presence to be a deterant.
The professional gangs disappear right away and hard for police to catch. There are so many police in Bogota on just about every street corner of down town and then some but they really don’t care. The thieves operate right in front of them without fear. We spoke to several police officers and non of them interesting in trying to help. The place we got robbed in the old city centre had many cameras but they said it won’t do any good as the phone is gone now. They wouldnt even do a polics report saying we had to do it ourselves online but the site doesn’t work for international visitors…
