Excellent Point!

For millennia, stories have been told of evil people in power, some of whom lead double lives of respectability. They and the more obvious creeps (Can you say Governors and Judges of both parties?) were finally brought down by heroes, along with an angry populace once the truth was out in the open.

Until recently, even Hollyweird made money-making films that had crimes committed by low lifes whose actual bosses turned out to be high-up members of society. This theme is constant, although in their current panic, the Powers That Be are trying desperately to censor or project the evil back onto the heroes and decent law-abiding people. Ain't gonna work.