"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:aSTmd.351017$wV.228537@attbi_s54...
I don't believe anyone ever claimed that there was NO causal relationship
between crime and poverty.

So what? I wasn't replying to your post.

What I implied, however, is that we shouldn't care if there is.

I certainly believe that you don't care, and that you believe you shouldn't
care. Definitely fits what little I know about you and your sort of
"thinking".

In America, theft is a moral problem, not an economic one. No one needs
to steal to survive here.

I don't know which America you're talking about, but it's not the one I live
in. People die every day from poverty. People who, had they stolen, would
have survived. People whose ONLY REMAINING OPTION was to steal.

Pete