It will be coming from the usual quarters -- shoplifting, property crimes, trafficking -- but now, more and more, in the context of business. That is, overbilling and double billing, shipping defective products, computer "typos," assaults on the defenseless, those types of crimes that blend theft with anti-social behavior. More so-called white-collar crime.
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As government services grow in size and influence, stealing in sectors such as banking and finance, private and public, is going to increase dramatically. Much of our way of life has grown to depend on people's consent to fairness, honesty, and respect for the law. At the same time, people agreed that law-breaking had consequences. That was before the left succeeded in dividing the people, back when we had a concept of the nation as a family with a common culture. Can we get back to it?