Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014
Home burglary is almost dead.  What's to steal?  Any TV you can carry is almost worthless.  There's no market in used desktop computers, or used furniture. Nobody has cameras any more. Few people keep much cash around. Phones are probably in the owner's pocket, not left in their house.  And because the economy is down at the low end, pawn shops and flea markets are choked with stuff they can't sell.<p>There have been single white collar crimes that exceed the value of all US burglaries.  Madoff alone stole more than five years of burglaries.<p>The FBI has their priorities wrong. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports tally a burglary when it is reported, but a while collar crime only when an arrest is made.  This creates the illusion that white collar crime is much smaller than it is.