Victims of white collar crime are often reluctant to come forward. If it is a minor event and they realize they have been duped they may be embarassed. If it is a major life-altering event it takes time for them to rationalize the event and even then may not be aware they have been victims of a crime but because they trust our society may believe they are victims of events.

It is time that Governments realize the impact of white collar crime and that in particular seniors and those less able to look after their own interests are most susceptible to white collar predators.

Stan Buell
Small Investor Protection Association
www.sipa.ca
sipa@sipa.ca

Stan Buell, Markham, ON, Canada

Policing by targets is farcical. A detective chief inspector, of some quality in my opinion, was en route to a murder. Over the local radio a PC said that, in the case of an assault between two lovers he had been sent to, no offences were disclosed. The DCI came on the air and ordered the PC to take all details so as it could be 'resulted' correctly: ie, go down as a solved crime.

The murder was solved. Both offences, the argument and the brutal killing, were as valuable as each other in the targets.

Whilst we made the DCI suffer, he was doing that most difficult of tasks: being a police officer and servicing the targets.

If it not counted it's not policed.

Derek Smith, Brighton, UK

We and 30 other clients lost their lifes savings when a habitual con man and convicted fraudster was licenced by the FSA as a financial advisor.
The FSA bear no responsibilty for their obvious blunders and we are left in poverty for the rest of our lives.

Ray Nipper, Portbail, France