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There is some bias in such a system, though. On the whole, for instance, white collar crime kills more people, and does more economic damage to society than st

There is some bias in such a system, though. On the whole, for instance, white collar crime kills more people, and does more economic damage to society than street crime ever does by a significant margin. But we'll build and deploy a system to tackle street crime, not one to tackle white collar crime. That's a conscious decision on the part of our society, and part of the reason why crime is normalized in white collar circles. And it certainly does our society no favors. (For the research into the normalization of white collar crime, and its greater harm to society, I listened to the 'Explaining Social Deviance' course by Prof. Paul Root Worpe a few years ago)

BickNowstrom 10y ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/12/02/attention-insider-traders-these-wall-street-vets-may-have-the-tech-to-nail-you/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/12/02/attentio... White collar crime, like fraud and insider trading, sees as much automated detection software as street crime does. But even if it did not, let's assume we focus our attention on street crime, then your reasoning is a fallacy of relative privation: Y is a worse problem than X, so attempting to solve X is bad/unimportant/makes solving Y less likely.