Law in Failure: The Real Number of Crimes, Billions

Best-estimate annual U.S. crime count

This version uses one estimate per category, with no low/high ranges. It counts modeled criminal events or activity episodes—not arrests, defendants, convictions, or individual files.

#	Crime category	Best estimate
1	Concealed killings and crime-linked disappearances	5,000
2	Unreported assault and battery	2,750,000
3	Sexual offenses	8,000,000
4	Child, elder, and dependent-person abuse or neglect	8,000,000
5	Threats, stalking, harassment, and intimidation	8,000,000
6	Human trafficking, kidnapping, and unlawful confinement	100,000
7	Unreported personal and household-property crime	8,890,000
8	Theft and property crime against businesses and organizations	73,000,000
9	Fraud, scams, and identity crime	50,000,000
10	Unauthorized computer access and other cybercrime	15,000,000

#	Crime category	Best estimate
11	Child sexual abuse material activity and related online exploitation	1,900,000
12	Illegal drug-market transactions	1,880,000,000
13	Weapons and explosives offenses	1,000,000
14	Other illicit markets and organized crime	250,000,000
15	Financial, professional, and corporate crime	2,000,000
16	Criminal tax and revenue offenses	2,300,000
17	Criminal wage, labor, and workplace violations	3,000,000
18	Public corruption and criminal abuse of authority	25,000
19	Perjury, evidence offenses, obstruction, and witness intimidation	500,000
20	Environmental, wildlife, natural-resource, and animal crime	500,000

#	Crime category	Best estimate
21	Healthcare, pharmaceutical, food, and consumer-safety crime	5,000,000
22	Impaired driving and other serious road and transportation crimes	150,000,000
23	Criminal immigration, smuggling, document, customs, and border offenses	1,000,000
24	National-security and transnational offenses	20,000
25	Minor local and public-order crimes omitted from major totals	20,000,000

Straight totals

Estimated underlying criminal events per year, including CSAM activity: 2,490,990,000

Additional attempts, conspiracies, solicitation, facilitation, and accessory offenses: 250,000,000

Best-estimate broad statutory-offense total: 2,740,990,000 per year.

The 1,900,000 CSAM estimate is intended to represent courses of possession, production, acquisition, transmission, distribution, or related online-exploitation activity—not one crime for every image or video. Contact sexual abuse involved in creating material remains counted under sexual offenses, while later possession and circulation are counted in the CSAM category to limit double-counting.

This remains a best-estimate scenario model.

Takutsubo Everywhere

I am aware of a total business practice in this country. I have called it Takutsubo. The term is from cardiology. It refers to a Japanese octopus trap. The little octopus heads in, and cannot get out. It would have to put its tentacles together and to swim backwards to get out. Impossible.

It takes a minute to give a business money. It is impossible to ever get any money out. Try to cancel  a phone account, a magazine subscription. Try to make a health insurance company pay for treatment. It takes hours, if one can ever do it at all. One factor to think about is that no one will ever see any money from a life insurance policy. They will disappear. Once found, they will give us the runaround. Once that is ended, they will find something wrong with the application from 30 years ago. So on. Takutsubo is everywhere.

Takutsubo is a form of fraud in my view, since it is not disclosed in any contract. It results in unjust enrichment of the business. It is on my long list of litigation subjects.

I did make a credible legal threat to ATT. I was able to cancel my phone service quickly and easily. My threat was also followed by their advertising rollover minutes as their policy 2 months after my complaint to the FCC, a step required in litigation. I also refused to speak to their Vice President of Legal Affairs.

Right now, it has been impossible to use my Amazon $25 gift card. I had to find and use a magnifying glass to get the validation number and the card number. I am grateful, I did not have to find a heavy microscope. I entered a long validation code on a separate web page. I then entered the actual long number of the card into an order. I have done so three times. No. I have spent $100 in time to make it work. I am about to give up. They are going to just keep the $25.

Takutsubo.

Email sent to Jeff@Amazon.com: You need to address this allegation of fraud

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