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PLANNING WATCH Los Angeles, like the rest of the United States, is obsessed by crimes perpetrated by people at the bottom of society.  This country has four percent of the world’s population and 22 percent of its prisoners, most of them from poor backgrounds.  Petty crime stories are a staple for local news shows and electronic bulletin boards, like NextDoor.  Every Amazon package thief, dog poop scofflaw, and mailbox rifler can count on a long list of hostile comments.  Even though petty crimes make for bold headlines and alarmist social media posts, white collar crime, what Woodie Guthrie called robbing you with a fountain pen, is where the real money lies.  For example, the Federal Government spent $125 billion to settle the savings-and-loan bank scandals of the 1980s.  One high profile case, Irvine-based Lincoln Savings, ensnared five US senators and sent the lead crook, Charles Keating, to a Federal penitentiary.

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