So, my friend Daniel works for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He just published an awesome piece of reporting.
Apparently the FBI isn't investigating crimes that actually hurt people anymore.
In particular, fraud, embezzlement and other white-collar crime prosecution is way, way down. Crimes that actually affect you and me. Terrorism is scary, and politically attractive, but way way more people die from drunk drivers than terrorists. Six times as many. And when Enron types steal from giant pensions, it hurts a lot of people.
Humans suck at understanding risk.
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