This type of crime focuses on the safety of both consumer products and employees in the workplace. Not to anyone's surprise, white-collar crime receives a small amount of media coverage because we, the public consumers, are told that we do not need to read, nor to hear about it. This type of crime in some respects may be even more detrimental to a portion of the public's safety than is a person who commits a form of criminal action on the streets. This sentence is contradictory to the cover photograph that is printed with it. No whites were in the photo, only Afro- Americans and Hispanics in handcuffs, stretched on the ground, and placed against a wall.
American society is consumed, mesmerized, and persuaded at times by media coverage.
The media reports criminal acts of the poor daily, while the people who commit white-collar crimes go unnoticed. To prove Spence's statement, last month The New York Times reported that burglaries in New York City have drastically declined within the past ten to fifteen years. However, this does not mean that other crimes, like selling drugs, have declined, According to the story, the selling of drugs has increased. According to Lee and Solomon, the magnitude of a crime has little correlation to the amount of media reporting. This story is a typical example of biased crime reporting because the subject deals with minorities, gang violence, but what is most sensational is that a child is suspected of committing a murder.