The Mess in Pacific Heights: White-Collar Crime Scares Community

<b>THE MESS IN PACIFIC HEIGHTS: <br>
WHITE-COLLAR CRIME CONTINUES TO ENDANGER COMMUNITY</b>
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San Francisco police are investigating a grisly stabbing murder that happened this morning in one of the city's most exclusive neighborhoods. Residents near Washington & Gough St are up in arms about out-of-control white collar crime and a complete failure/refusal of law enforcement to investigate corruption.<br><br>
"You've got brokers who trade more cocaine than they do shares," said Todd, a financial sector worker speaking on condition of anonymity. "Unfortunately, all the press and police hype up crime in poor neighborhoods, they don't care or enforce laws against rich people."<br><br>
"The truth is," Todd continues, "there are laws being broken everyday in rich neighborhoods ... drugs, bribes, illegal evictions, and so on."<br><br>
According to San Francisco-based non-profit Global Exchange, corporate crime costs taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars more a year compared to street crime. But police agencies are not used to investigate or prosecute corporate crime, while city police are busy arresting homeless people for sitting on the sidewalk. <br><br>
"The fact is people making decisions about police or what goes in the newspaper are generally white-collar, professional people with wealthy backgrounds," Todd concludes. "Their fundamentally racist and classist coverage means that corporate crime will only continue to get worse."