A single billionaire family recently appears to have gotten away with an estimated $10 billion while causing more American deaths than all shootings, muggings, murders and carjackings combined over the past thirty years.
Our regulatory agencies that should be catching corporate criminals have been gutted since the Reagan era, when "deregulation" became a Republican religion and corporate crime began to explode.
Reframing "policing" and "the definition of crime" are just two examples: this is fertile ground for Democratic strategists and policy planners. There are a whole range of others.
Donald Trump launched a one-man crime spree run out of the Oval Office, and the GOP is now planning to paint Democrats as criminal-coddlers.
In reality, Democrats are not anti-cop or opposed to laws being enforced in a fair and orderly society:
New York City just elected a Democratic former police chief as their mayor. A former cop in Florida, now a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, may well take on Senator Marco Rubio in the next election.
Democrats need to get ahead of this issue of crime - both perception and policy-wise - before it buries them.
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