WHEN PETTY CRIME ISN’T

To provide you with some idea about the extent of the problem caused by Gypsy criminal groups, I’ve used statistics obtained from a national crime survey, which I conducted some years ago, along with other information obtained from various federal and state crime statistics.

The following figures are based on a review of two major (non-Gypsy related) crime categories: Robbery and Burglary.

The average dollar losses associated with those two categories were:

ROBBERY       $  628.00 per offense

BURGLARY    $  953.00 per offense

By comparison, I examined a random sample of 1,289 so-called gypsy petty theft cases from various regions within the US.  The total loss in this sampling amounted to $18.1 million.

It would take 28,821 robberies or 18,992 burglaries to equal the losses associated with the 1,289 Gypsy criminal group offenses.