[seanmcdirmid]

> Since nobody carries cash, nobody thinks that other people are carrying cash, so it doesn't make you a target.

Thugs will target older people who are more likely to carry cash, they do some stereotyping other of people who are still worth mugging.

Also, if they notice the wallet bulge in your back pocket, you’ve become a target.

[tekknik]

Well this works well until it doesn’t. My elderly father doesn’t carry cash, only card, but yet it would look like he has a large wad of cash in his front pocket. It is in fact a legally concealed handgun however.

[seanmcdirmid]

False positives don’t negate the stereotype.

And anything that doesn’t look like a wallet probably won’t trigger a response. You would be safer to just wad up money and shove it in your pocket than to carry it around in a wallet.