My heart isn't the only thing you stole

Another tip from another blog, this one from Eric, aka "The Hamster."

The Western Prison Project has some interesting numbers about crime as opposed to the perception of it. You should go directly to the site to see it laid out in detail graphically, but what they show in a nutshell is that the risk of being a victim of burglary drops with rising income. That is, the richer you are, the less likely you are to be burglarized.

These were the numbers:

Burglaries/1,000 households, income <$7,500: 67.0
Burglaries/1,000 households, income $7,500-$14,999: 44.2
Burglaries/1,000 households, income $15,000-$24,999: 38.9
Burglaries/1,000 households, income $25,000-$34,999: 37.1
Burglaries/1,000 households, income $35,000-$49,999: 30.9
Burglaries/1,000 households, income $50,000-$74,999: 24.1
Burglaries/1,000 households, income >$75,000: 23.1

Just like every other way, it's the poor who get screwed and the rich who get all the fawning attention.