> is it that society is increasingly failing to prosecute crime? Depends on the society. The US has an awful lot of people in jail. However, society in gener

> is it that society is increasingly failing to prosecute crime? Depends on the society. The US has an awful lot of people in jail. However, society in general is fairly universally failing to prosecute certain classes of crime - ones where rich people steal from poor people. It is the unevenness of prosecution that enrages people. A rich kid can rape an unconscious woman and leave her in a dumpster, and get no jail time, whereas someone can go to jail for five years for voting as a felon, not deliberately simply because she didn't know that the US disenfranchises criminals for life in many states.