The waiting room at the police station on Nou de la Rambla in Barcelona is full on the day a visiting reporter makes an unwanted detour to help a friend. Barcelona pickpockets are particularly skilled. Stories of wallets and cell phones stolen from right under your nose are fairly common. The station features a 24-hour credit-card hotline to make canceling stolen cards easier. Still, the friendly clerk taking the report says robberies have not increased. Sure, the newly unemployed sometimes try, … [Read more...] about Barcelona’s Crisis Observed