“It was hiding in the celery," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. "Obviously, we threw away the celery. That didn’t make it to the store.”

“It was hiding in the celery," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. "Obviously, we threw away the celery. That didn’t make it to the store.”

  • chingadera@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Incorrect, wage theft is the most common committed crime if we’re talking about ‘counts of crime’ instead of just reporting.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Uh…what… incorrect…?

      This entire thread was spawned from someone posting a statistic relating to violent crime rates amongst different population groups.

      Financial crimes, wage theft, jaywalking, or any other criminal act you can think of, that isn’t categorized as a “violent crime”, is irrelevant when the discussion is about one specific flawed violent crime statistic…