It always shocks me when public servants boldly commit so many visible crimes expecting to get away with them

I’ll swap stories with you. There was a 47 year old high school teacher who ended up having a “sexual relationship” (emotionally manipulating & raping) a 14 year old female student who came from a tough home life. The case was prosecuted as statutory rape. The teacher was found guilty, but at sentencing Billings, Montana Judge Baugh ordered a 30 day sentence because the girl “appeared older” than she was. Not long after that, the girl committed suicide. Judge Baugh was censured and retired in shame.

For many crimes, there is the actus reas and mens rea elements that must be proven for conviction. Actus reas is conduct which is a constituent element of a crime. Mens rea is the intention or knowledge element of a crime.

Strict liability crimes don’t have a mens rea element. These crimes don't require any intent or knowledge on the part of the offender. Statutory rape is a strict liability crime.

Tonight, Joel Greenberg - former Republican elected official and Matt Gaetz's child-sex-trafficking wingman - was arrested yet again and hit with yet another superseding indictment with an additional 21 charges.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/...eydlhaiie-story.html

I assume you don’t think this behaviour is only in the US of A, right?

I think it’s far worse in a lot of countries because they can get away with things far easier with their cultures of corruption. The U.S is nowhere remotely close to the most corrupt nations and this kind of thing goes on all the time.

Even in the U.S. it's probably only in recent decades where this sort of behavior would have been exposed.

Does anyone know anyone who has been shaken down by the cops in the US?

Not personally, but in my city there was recently a cop charged and sentenced for extorting women for sex. E.g. pulling them over for a traffic violation, and then bringing up alternative ways of getting out of a ticket.

Not personally, but in my city there was recently a cop charged and sentenced for extorting women for sex. E.g. pulling them over for a traffic violation, and then bringing up alternative ways of getting out of a ticket.

This gets more interesting: https://news.yahoo.com/...howed-224832602.html

What effing moron would vote for that ticket?

I knew a girl who turned 18 her junior year at Michigan. Of course as a minor, he did live at home as a freshman and sophomore.
A couple guys I knew in high school went away to college at 17, but they turned 18 the first month of freshman year.

Neither here nor there though.

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https://www.cnn.com/...tos-women/index.html

This appears to be a totally normal thing for the MAGA crowd. Trump showed up to his CFO Allen Weisenberg's house for a shiva, loudly proclaimed the house was a dump, and then proceeded to pass around nudes of his latest sexual conquests (read: prostitutes). Of course Mr. Weisenberg thought this was just charming because he is just as big of a sleaze ball.

https://www.yahoo.com/...shiva-153712121.html

The party of family values?

Suddenly the article this morning about him looking to leave politics and join Newsmax makes sense.

Receipts of payments made through CashApp and Apple Pay have been found. This guy is beyond smoked.