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True, fraud is a lot more difficult to prove compared to drug possession or assault. Your question was about the manpower devoted to poor crime vs white collar. The main reason is volume. There are exponentially more drug possession/theft/assault "poor crimes" than there are white collar crimes. Two guys get drunk at a bar and fight could be an assault. White collar crimes usually involve more planning and are never going to be the number that the poorer crimes are. So, it's a little silly to expect the same emphasis from the cops when they may get 1-2 leads on white collar crime compared to 50 "poor crimes" in that same interval.
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I just want to pull out this bit.
The reason there are too few cops investigating white collar crime is that the wealthy have been successful in brandishing that kind of activity as oppressive government. There simply aren't enough people investigating or prosecuting financial crimes to catch even a majority of the perpetrators. And just in case that doesn't work, the people running the agencies are most often former financial types and they direct their employees to look elsewhere.
Focusing on the high crime areas ain't the reason.