Are wheelchair users more susceptible to crime?

[WCGuy]

With the economy in free fall, and more desperate folks around, will folks in wheelchairs be targeted preferentially or not? I wonder if anyone has ever done a study of crime statistics against those in wheelchairs. I would think that the crime rate would actually be lower, if the study were done. Not much street cred in jacking a chair....

A city woman in a wheelchair was robbed Tuesday in York, according to York City Police reports.

Shortly after 12:30 p.m., Lona Gonzalez was riding her electric wheelchair on West Clarke Avenue at North West Street when she was attacked by three juveniles.

The robbers took a bag with a sound enhancer for telephone ringer, groceries and a gold necklace from Gonzalez, police said.

Gonzalez was not injured during the attack. York City Police ask anyone with information on the robbery to contact them at 846-1234.

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11571619

[Green Tree]

I don't know about that but did you see the one about the guy robbing a muffler shop in a chair?

:)


Wheelchair-bound man nabbed for break-in

A wheelchair-bound man was arrested after police said he broke into a local muffler shop.

Michael Anthony Wilson of Statesville was charged with breaking and entering, resisting an officer and attempted larceny.

Capt. Jacob Dyson of the Statesville Police Department said officers responded to a report of a break-in at Muffler Masters on Folger Drive. Officers found a man at the rear of the building, and Dyson said he was in a wheelchair and tried, briefly, to wheel away from the officers.

He was quickly caught and taken into custody.

Dyson said the business had been broken into but nothing was taken.


http://www2.statesville.com/content/2009/jan/26/wheelchair-bound-man-nabbed-break-/