A lot of times in Media, Television, Movies, Games etc. you’ll see this leader of a huge crime organization where its shown that the government or law enforcement of that universe obviously know that they’re involved in illegal activity, but they “don’t have enough evidence to put them in jail” This is where my question comes in, what stops this government from just doing it anyway? If they obviously know they’re evil than why can’t they just stop them anyway, Its not like keeping them out of jail will be MORE helpful for the world?
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My dad, who did a sting as a cop back in the 60s, used to say ‘Most of the time you know who did it, it’s just getting the evidence to prove it in court that’s the tricky bit’. So for example, let’s say you bring out a witness who says your guy did some crime. But it turns out that that witness is lying to cover his own crimes or he’s lying for some other reason. Sometimes your evidence is all circumstantial and not direct and so you have to build up sufficent barely smoking guns to look like something that a jury might accept as pointing towards guilt.
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