In this thread, people refuse to believe that white people can engage in organized crime, lol.
A couple of points...
- Per capita, it's not even close
- Several democrat run cities have stopped prosecuting crimes under a certain dollar amount. So, there are several thefts that go undocumented in these areas.
- The FBI post claims that these organized retail thefts (IE - smash & grabs, not typical shoplifting) are leading to businesses closing in some areas.
There's several stories how retail stores are closing... And how these closings are hurting the residents in these areas. And it's not majority white neighborhoods
Over-all? I can definitely see how there's more retail thefts committed by white offenders, but you have to take in other factors and the types of thefts that the FBI was posting about.
Per capita might not be close but in terms of absolute theft, it's not even close going in the opposite direction.
As for not prosecuting crimes, why wouldn't that also benefit white Americans? They live in democrat run cities too. In fact, most cities are majority white, even the Democrat run ones.
See, the problem as I see it as that most people in this thread are basing their interpretation off the images they see in the news, not any real understanding of what actually happens on the street.
People get fed a steady image of black offenders and they've become conditioned to think of the crime solely in the context of black offenders, they simply no longer even consider the possibility that non-black people could be involved. Of course, it doesn't hurt that many people already think of black Americans and crime and other negative characteristics as interchangeable, that makes it easier to turn off their critical thinking in these areas.
But the reality is organized retail theft isn't a racial crime. People from all backgrounds engage in theft and people from all backgrounds organize themselves to commit theft. The charging record shows that 2/3rds of the theft is committed by white people.
Is there some credible argument supporting the idea that white people are less capable of organizing their retail crimes, even if it doesn't make the 6 o'clock news? Of course not. White people are capable of organizing themselves in every endeavor they pursue and they certainly pursue theft so it stands to reason that they would also be engaged in organized theft.
Every thing else is just people pushing their conditioned beliefs about what a criminal should look like over the statistical reality of what it looks like.