I doubt it is.
At ease.
Didn't mean to challenge anything you'd written. Just sort of a stream of consciousness thing on my part.
I never said that some thugs/thieves don't wear them, many, maybe most, do. Just not all.
You can't let profiling, which does work, lull you into thinking that someone who does not fit the profile is "not a problem". The bad guys understand profiling too. Well the smarter ones do. :)