Want to be a criminal in America? Stealing billions is your best bet to go scot-free [theguardian.com]
By Judd Legum, Photo: Ben Margot/AP, The Guardian, December 7, 2021 In the United States, only certain types of theft are newsworthy. For example, on 14 June 2021, a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco tweeted a cellphone video of a man in Walgreens filling a garbage bag with stolen items and riding his bicycle out of the store. According to San Francisco’s crime database, the value of the merchandise stolen in the incident was between $200 and $950. According to an analysis by Fair, a...