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They go after the little guy now because typically he or she can't fight back and is deathly afraid of prison.
by anoncoward111 8y ago
They go after the little guy now because typically he or she can't fight back and is deathly afraid of prison.
- kevmo 8y agoYes. Guaranteed convictions yield inflated statistics, which bureaucrats then tout as evidence of their value and need for (greater) funding. Paywalled, but excellent paper on this phenomenon: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=low+hanging+fruit+Harvard+policy+securities+exchange+perverse+incentives+&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&p=&u=%23p%3DVPGFe1uwAlMJ https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=low...