> Isn’t looking poor a good strategy for being an unattractive target for theft?

Looking poor is also an expression of wealth where wealth is defined money one has not yet spent which provides options in the future. (Source "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel.)

Also keyword is "looking" poor. 300 hundred dollar jeans, fifty thousand dollar hybrid civics -- meanwhile, my Casio got a lot of curt remarks.

> fifty thousand dollar hybrid civics

Bro - the highest trim line civic hybrid has an MSRP under $35k…

Type R gets up there

Type R isn’t the hybrid civic

No, police punish theft from rich people, not theft from poor people.

Good thing my backpack was stolen so I won’t look poor when I go into the police station to report the theft.

Police (and DA) in SF don't punish any theft from anyone in my experience.