It appears to be statistically true, and might well be actually true, that the Romani commit more crimes than your average European.

But this does not indicate any overall fault.

Given the lack of opportunities in "straight" jobs for a Rom, this is not surprising. You or I would do the same. I am a basically honest guy, but I am also not a desperate man either.

After a thousand years of persecuting and demonizing them, it's up to us, the overwhelming majority, to fix the issues that we have primarily caused with respect to the Romani.

If I were running things, I'd name the Romani a protected minority, and their languages protected minority languages; apologize, which costs nothing, and goes a long way toward making people happier; come up with a path to bringing individuals back into law-abiding society without punitive sentences; and give them money of course.

The cost to society from having several million disaffected and impoverished humans with no fixed address wandering around Europe, many of whom have been career criminals for generations because they had no other realistic way to make their way in this world, is far, far greater than the monetary price of giving the Romani people a guaranteed income.