Elected leaders beholden to organized crime produce a much greater danger because criminal enterprise, by its very definition, does not follow the law. These politicians face coercion of a more forceful kind.
Capture of public office by crime strives not so much to shape the law, but to hollow it out, or prevent it from being enforced at all, which can result in collapse of a local, regional, or national government.
Elected leaders beholden to organized crime produce a much greater danger because criminal enterprise, by its very definition, does not follow the law. These politicians face coercion of a more forceful kind.
Capture of public office by crime strives not so much to shape the law, but to hollow it out, or prevent it from being enforced at all, which can result in collapse of a local, regional, or national government.
Tell all the lies out loud. Pajarito