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law enforcement has limited resources, and must try to catch the most criminals and dissuade the most crime given said resources. It's especially bad in tax the
by JackYoustra 2y ago
law enforcement has limited resources, and must try to catch the most criminals and dissuade the most crime given said resources. It's especially bad in tax these days, there are tens of thousands of people with incomes over a million dollars that the US doesn't have the capacity to go after.
- vlovich123 2y agoThat’s the IRS not the FBI.
- benmmurphy 2y agoIt is a complex situation. The worst case scenario from these entrapment operations is the FBI incentives people into a committing a crime they would otherwise not have committed. The end result is more crime, but maybe it kind of nets out because FBI has 100% success and victims are made whole but then you have the sunk cost of this FBI work. The more optimal case is the FBI nabs people who would have otherwise committed another crime and this is a more efficient way of dealing with these people than investigating real crimes. My concern is the FBI doesn’t actually try and determine which is the best allocation of resources but just presses the button that makes the FBI look best. Investigating real crimes is a lot more difficult than investigating these ‘sting’ crimes so if investigating ‘sting’ crimes was less efficient then it might be incorrectly priotized.