Just returned from a wonderful trip to Madrid, Toledo, Seville and Malaga and not once did my family encounter any pickpockets or obseve vany muggings. In fact, in Malaga I left my pocketbook behind after too much sangria and when I went to retrieve it the next morning it was returned to me completely intact! I am a middle aged woman, who traveled with her husband and 2 teenagers and I'm sure we looked like tourists!