The Economic Cost of Crime in America

[SAYIT]

I believe the estimate is low but public and private cost of criminal activity nationally is estimated to be about $1.5 TRILLION/yr while the criminal class - those who perpetrate most of the crime - is no more than 2% of the gen pop. Add in their lack of productivity - our criminal class rarely works, produces or pays taxes - and the figure approaches $2 trillion/yr, or over 10% of our GDP. It isn't society that fails these human parasites as some claim but rather they who fail us and themselves. Imagine how much better life in America would be without them.

 

[Claudette]

Yup and if they are shot and wounded in a gun battle they are treated in our hospitals and of course that bill will never be paid.

 

[Tank]

They should have never been brought here

 

[SAYIT]

Yup and if they are shot and wounded in a gun battle they are treated in our hospitals and of course that bill will never be paid.

That bill is paid by the rest of us through higher taxes and med costs (there's no such thing as a free lunch) which is - in part - why I say the number is understated.

They should have never been brought here

Yanno, unless you are 100% indigenous, somewhere on your family tree is someone who was "brought here."