Could this happen to you?

This is why I am so grateful that I don't live in a world in the periphery...namely because I love to keep my bag open, I walk around like i'm clumsy and I sometimes try to emulate that whole MK dumpster chic action minus huge drapery tittering a bout...imagine
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A group of men (around six to eight), keeping the appearance of not knowing each other, will board a bus (most likely the ones who "terminal" or wait for the bus to fill up with passengers). They'll sit in different seats, two near the front, the rest in the middle and back. Or if the bus is full, they'll cluster in a group in the middle or near the front of the aisle (I think to make their escape quicker).
One of them near the front will tell their victim they dropped a coin or key on the victim's seat or on the floor near the victim. The whole purpose is to get the victim to the aisle, so they normally choose those seated nearest the aisle. Once the victim is in the aisle, suddenly the other members pretend they boarded the wrong bus, or forgot something, so there's a sudden rush of people squeezing into the aisle and past the victim. In the confusion, they'll snatch mobile phones, cash, anything they can get, actually. Then they'll quickly exit the bus and catch another ride to escape.
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I keep thinking of someone to blame. The police? The government? Poverty? How does one stop crime if it's as common as this already? The other alternative, to be more aware and to blow the whistle on such acts, and to help victims of these things, is far less neater choice. And I'm afraid of it. But isn't that the right thing to do?

And to say we American's are damn lucky for what we have-ok, let me semi rephrase, us Suburban middle income American's because i'm not sure what it would be like to live in a "ghetto" where "drivebys happen all the time" and we're not talking about Malibu's Most Wanted...