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For some perspective, law enforcement takes more money through asset forfeiture than all the burglaries combined. In 2015 it was $5 billion in personal assets without any evidence it was related to crime.

White collar crime (think of Halliburton war profiteering or the Sacklers starting the fentanyl addiction and overdose epidemic) cause more death, more cost, more destruction than all petty crime (that includes homicide) by multiple orders of magnitude. All of the departments that investigate white collar crime are underfunded, like the IRS.

One of the most effective ways to stop petty crime — or mob syndicates — is to make sure people in your neighborhood are not in poverty or in precarity. Once people don't know where their kids' next meal is coming from, they will get desperate.

Jesus doesn't save criminals. Mutual aid and social programs do. Jesus just blames the individual as if going hungry is a character flaw.