[LarryLied]

the $3.8 million settlement he received from the city of Los Angeles

Poverty does not cause crime.

[razorback-bert]

Many, especially in our universities, now are convinced that war(crime) always results from real, rather than perceived, grievances, such as the poverty arising out of the usual list of sins: colonialism, imperialism, racism and sexism

Victor Davis Hanson, a professor of Classics at California State University

[Salman]

Poverty does not cause crime.

But the correlation is there. I'd say that crime causes poverty.