Who Commits Crime?
10th July 2010
The Other McCain doesn’t shrink from saying what we all know to be true.
This pattern illustrates a common-sense truth so basic that it seems a bit silly to state it directly: Criminals commit crime.
Contrary to media distortions, criminality is not evenly distributed throughout the population. A small and fairly distinct group of career criminals — recidivists, habitual violators, call them what you will — account for the majority of serious crime in America.