Contrary to reports which talk of traveling salesmen who have been robbed in the U.S. of large amounts of jewelry and diamonds is the data released by Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) which revels that robberies of jewelry salesmen in the United States are the lowest they have been in several years%%JSA figures for the first half of 2006 show 83 robberies, the smallest number since the 1980’s. Total losses from crime of $17.2 million in the first half of the year are also the lowest in several years, except for 2005, when they totaled $15.2 million. JSA experts say that foreign salesmen from India, Israel or Hong Kong account for a disproportionate number of the robberies. They attribute this to the fact that these salesmen tend to carry large amounts of goods, and are less familiar with business areas than local salesmen