I don't think a comparison with murder rates is valid. The "whistle" is much more likely to be blown for a murder, as there is a corpse or a missing person. Add

I don't think a comparison with murder rates is valid. The "whistle" is much more likely to be blown for a murder, as there is a corpse or a missing person. Additionally, those committing financial crimes are mostly people with some combination of wealth and clout, better allowing them to fight the accusation and investigation, and there is the revolving door effect between the regulators and those they are supposed to regulate. Plus, why would that comparison be useful? Everyone is capable of murder, not everyone is even in a position where they could attempt to commit the types of crimes that get announced via the whistleblower program. So if we were to compare, it would have to be some kind of per capita comparison, where the population for financial crimes is members of the financial industry. In which case the numbers start to look more damning.