I'm saying this is in the news because this is a case of "rich person encounters crime" vs the usual case which is "average people are victims of crime".

An extreme scenario:

When I was a student, a person broke into our flat and stole some stuff (but weirdly, despite clearly checking, none of my DVDs nor my SoundBlaster! Extigy :D). This did not even get into local news. But if someone had broken into BillG's house and judged his DVD collection to be similarly terrible that would be in the news.

If you are saying the determining factor as to whether crime happens, or a crime rate is "high", is more heavily weighted by "does this crime impact the upper class?" I'm not sure what to say.