White Collar Crime vs. Street Crime.

An issue that continuously plagues our society is crime. Crime affects everyone through out their day to day routines. On a daily basis we hear of murders, robberies, and rapes via the media. These types of crimes are categorized as "street crimes." For many individuals, such crimes are the only "tragic" crimes, the type that are senseless and generally preventable. There is however, another verity of crime that affects its victims in a relative manner …

…yet no one seems to want to address the problem. Many of the individuals who commit white collar crimes are the same people who have the power to decide where funding goes. The upper class has the money, and the voting and legislative power to decide whether law enforcement will even deal with white collar crime. When corrupt individuals have the power, "justice" in America can be a farce, and white collar crime will continue