Criminal
Dec. 16, 2020
With some changes, the nation’s largest prosecutor’s office can start to act like it
The white collar division of the Los Angeles district attorney’s office has the potential to be a world-class office with the power to pulverize even the biggest criminal syndicates. Unfortunately, in years past the office has place a low priority on complex crimes.
David Fleck
David is a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, where he spent nearly 10 years in the white collar division.
Visualizing a scene of violent crime typically seizes the imagination and quickens the pulse far more than visualizing a white collar crime does. Call it the "if it bleeds, it leads" tendency of the mind. But law enforcement priorities must not be informed solely by visceral responses. They should be guided in part by the degree of harm a crime causes, and white collar crimes, even if bloodless, can wreak staggering wreckage and suffering.
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