Food delivery persons are in the fifth most dangerous job, according to some reports. Robberies of pizza delivery persons and Chinese food delivery persons are likely to be found in any urban crime data. These crimes do become serial in nature so it is important to track them
Pattern: Food Delivery Person Robberies
Victims: Pizza delivery persons, Chinese restaurant delivery persons
Perpetrators: Most often lone males or small groups of males, often teens
Locations: Driveways, alleys, sometimes at vacant houses, sometimes hide in buses, hallways
Times: Most often in the evening
Entry/Approach Methods: Suspects may attack delivery person from behind or lure them to door of building they do not inhabit and rob them.
Weapons: Food delivery robberies are often committed at gunpoint. Victim are sometimes assaulted, but usually escape physically unharmed.
Tools: Suspect may call to order food using cell phones they purchase and then discard – sometimes they use their own phones which then can be traced.
Vehicles/Transportation Routes: Suspects often flee on foot.
Stolen Goods: Suspect usually take the money, or both money and food. Rarely do they just take the food.
Method: Suspects order food by telephone and rob delivery person
Motive: Quick cash, sometimes related to gang activity
Query Terms: pizza, food, delivery, Chinese, restaurant, lure , order, driveway, alley, porch, hallway, vacant
Suggestions: Map all your restaurants and pizzerias – differentiate between types of restaurants. Keep track of all food delivery robberies. Keep track of all individuals arrested for such robberies and their MOs for future reference. Some robbers wear masks, hide behind bushes, act in groups. Look for serial crimes whenever you have an “outbreak” of such crimes. Look for repeat targeting of particular pizzerias/restaurants. Work on target-hardening suggestions.
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