Whatever impact this may have had is abating. People tend to quickly forget and move onto the next crisis, such as gangs in Aurora or Kamala's accent. Before you know it, those things will fade away too. Many people in the country, if not the world, have the attention spans of fruit flies.
Makes it a lot easier to get away with multiple crimes if you can get people to constantly look at new, shiny objects, rather than focus on the more important stuff.
Whatever impact this may have had is abating. People tend to quickly forget and move onto the next crisis, such as gangs in Aurora or Kamala's accent. Before you know it, those things will fade away too. Many people in the country, if not the world, have the attention spans of fruit flies.
Makes it a lot easier to get away with multiple crimes if you can get people to constantly look at new, shiny objects, rather than focus on the more important stuff.