An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

Re:An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a f... by well_i_guess on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:31PM (#30420863)

Is this the effect that we’re better aware of fraud and the like or is it that society is increasingly failing to prosecute crime? I feel as though we’re in a strange spiral where criminality is increasingly forgiven even in cases it shouldn’t be due to the ineptitude of government. I’ve talked to many, many people who are of the view that society is no longer just, not because of undue prosecution, but because of no prosecution.

I’ll admit, I was swayed by the arguments of certain protests a couple years ago, but it seems like a deeper law/order reaction is brewing after the downstream effects of the policies and attitudes have come into play.

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Re:An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a f... by rwmj on Monday February 21, 2022 @04:46PM (#30421048)

There's no mystery about it, the UK government has aggressively cut funding to the police and criminal justice system. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/file...

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Re:An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a f... by TomSwirly on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @07:06AM (#30426864)

> is it that society is increasingly failing to prosecute crime?

Depends on the society. The US has an awful lot of people in jail.

However, society in general is fairly universally failing to prosecute certain classes of crime - ones where rich people steal from poor people.

It is the unevenness of prosecution that enrages people. A rich kid can rape an unconscious woman and leave her in a dumpster, and get no jail time, whereas someone can go to jail for five years for voting as a felon, not deliberately simply because she didn't know that the US disenfranchises criminals for life in many states.

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