Surprisingly, New York s decline in the crime rate was 26 percent greater than the decline of the crime rate in Texas. After looking at such figures it can be implied that the amount of funds that are being allocated to the jails in our country does not parallel with a decreasing rate of crime in the country. During the 1990 s, the economic boom and more attention towards gun laws and crime prevention have proved to have the best results in the war against crime. This shows that white-collar criminals are more dangerous to our society. The real criminals are the white-collars who launder, embezzle, and steal money from the public.
Most people don t even know about most white-collar crimes.
The FBI doesn t include these crimes in their authoritative annual report, Crime in the United States. Yet corporate lobbyists effectively blocked the creation of a Consumer Protection Agency under President Carter, and have continually pushed for safety deregulation and defunding of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which inspects 15,000 products a year. Also, most corporations have chemical wastes they dump, which cause cancer and other illnesses that lead to taxpayer money being spent to provide medication. Pollution is another way that big corporations kill. According to a sophisticated study by the Natural Resources Defense Council, some 64,000 people may die prematurely every year from particulate air pollution.