It always perplexed me as to why economies - even prosperous ones with plenty of resources and manpower - always under-prosecuted hyper-violent mafias, drug cartels, international arms dealers and other crime rings that ran up body counts by the hundreds and thousands, each year.
Is it because, if ghastly criminals don't hit the headlines frequently enough and at regular intervals, the ruse for tighter criminal enforcement in the form of improved convict-prosecution machinery and technology[1], bigger police forces and larger prisons would go away?
In general, the case for a very vast and well-lobbied-for penal industrial complex would go away?
Is that why?
The people making fortunes out of these things, really can't be that base and venal. Can they?
[1] The armored vehicles used in the post-bombing manhunt of the
Tsarnaev brothers is but a trivial example. Surely there local
law enforcement forces across the nation have more substantial
Is it because, if ghastly criminals don't hit the headlines frequently enough and at regular intervals, the ruse for tighter criminal enforcement in the form of improved convict-prosecution machinery and technology[1], bigger police forces and larger prisons would go away?
In general, the case for a very vast and well-lobbied-for penal industrial complex would go away?
Is that why?
The people making fortunes out of these things, really can't be that base and venal. Can they?
[1] The armored vehicles used in the post-bombing manhunt of the
Tsarnaev brothers is but a trivial example. Surely there local
law enforcement forces across the nation have more substantial
technological wares at their disposal.
http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/04/29/manhunt-2
http://media.wbur.org/wordpress/9/files/2013/04/AP1280555201...
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