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>Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate,

I'm gonna call bullshit on this.

Even if you assume all demographics are snorting coke and beating their wives equally there are so, so, so many laws you can just trivially comply with by expending a little bit more money and there is so much less incentive for petty crime when you are in a career track where misdemeanors matter.

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Tax evasion, child abuse, embezzlement, drug abuse/dealing, drunk driving ... all crimes that can easily go unreported and if are reported result in reduced punishments for those who can afford good lawyers. Look at Rush Limbaugh. Plenty of drug-related criminality there but zero convictions. Will smith just attacked someone on camera but just walked away without even an interview by police. It isn't just the ultra-famous/rich. They are just the best examples of what privilege really means. (And the Russ/Oscars incidents are polar opposites of the political spectrum.)

Re Will Smith - He slapped, once, for insulting his wife. That's not what I would call 'attacking' unless you're trying to sensationalize it.

And this in response to an article on men not standing up for their wives in life!!

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