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The chances of it resulting in a conviction are extremely low. and so that is the frustration. it has been pointed out before that fraud is probably best estimated between a third and two fifths of all crime. if you are an adult, you are much more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime type. but despite that magnitude of offending, it attracts less than i% of police officers, fraud investigators. and i think weve said quite clearly in the past that just seems far too low. earlier, i...

Of all crime. if you are an adult, you are much more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime type. but despite that magnitude of offending, it attracts less than i% of police officers, fraud investigators. and i think weve said quite clearly in the past that just seems far too low. joining me now is money box reporter — dan whitworth. just how bad is it? really bad, is the short answer. fraud is an epidemic in this country. just a few days ago, there were figures released by the tr...

Fraud is probably best estimated between a third and two fifths of all crime. if you are an adult, you are much more likely to be a victim of fraud than any other crime type. but despite that magnitude of offending, it attracts less than i% of police officers, fraud investigators. and i think weve said quite clearly in the past that just seems far too low. earlier, i spoke to moneybox reporter dan whitworth, who told me how widespread the problem is. fraud is an epidemic in this country. matt pa...

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Not only does president biden oppose initiatives to defund police, championed by some reform activists, he actually wants to increase funding for police. president biden proposed that some covid-19 relief money get funded into police budgets, an initiative many republicans opposed. so lets dive into the other half of the republican lie. fearmongering about rising crime rates, because while it is true that violent crime rates rose in 2020 and appear to be on an upward trajectory so far in 2021, y...

Fearmongering about rising crime rates, because while it is true that violent crime rates rose in 2020 and appear to be on an upward trajectory so far in 2021, you can see by looking at this chart of the fbi data that violent crime is still close to its lowest point over the last 35 years. if you break that fbi data out and categorize it by crime type, you see that most types of violent crimes actually went down in the last year with homicide being the notable outlier. so what caused this jump i...

Years. could we be looking at a situation where big data helps you get the big fish, not the individual one guy but sort of the regional person who is really driving this? >> what were able to do is when you have a single national center thats looking at the 60,000 foot view of all of it at once and piecing together the pictures you begin to see patterns and trends. we can say there are 25 types of trafficking that exist in the united states. we are able to understand those trends and fight the ...