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Assuming theives prepared to use violence to aquire smartphones won't(don't already) just use the same methods to source scooters?
A side point, I doubt the majority of the phone snatching squads/riders/muggers would be involved in the initial moped theft. I suspect as is true with most criminal groups there is a division of labour.
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Also it's hard to talk about the clusterfuck that moped crime policing is without mentioning the 20% reduction in Met budget since 2010.
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won't(don't already) just use the same methods to source scooters
Yes and no, simply because there's an over abundance of Scooters and Mopeds in London, and stealing them is laughably easy. Literally 30 seconds. Utilize for nefarious deeds, dump, and acquire another.
Another use (this is what happened to me) is to use scooters to ambush and steal bigger bikes for more profit.
As @Batt They are poorly designed against theft.
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Chak
Well part of the problem is that mopeds are easily and readily available to anyone who is brazen enough to want to steal one because they have virtually no viable anti-theft.
This sets a criminal cultural climate that enables this to happen.
Probably a good place to start.