> It raises a really interesting question which is how do people like him climb so high up the ladder?

The real world is not a meritocracy. Awful, greedy, immoral people protect and promote each other. They also have an insatiable appetite for power, status, and wealth. You're rewarded for playing the game, for lying, and especially for keeping terrible secrets.

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octoberfranklin 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I know we're never going to fix this problem, but it's depressing how we seem to have made zero or negative progress on it.

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bamboozled 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think this is a side effect of having "paid law enforcement", it's not that the cops are bad, but their bosses are. The people who fund the law enforcement are ultimately at the mercy of the "rich and powerful" in some way or another, so basically people of a certain status get a pass.

It might look different if tax payers funded Law enforcement via different means, but it would never be allowed to happen, by,,,the elites.

	▲	octoberfranklin a minute ago \| parent [-]
		It used to be that any citizen could approach a grand jury and allege a crime. The purpose of the grand jury was to decide if the allegations were plausible enough to warrant spending tax dollars on hiring a prosecutor for that (single) case. "Public Prosecutor" wasn't a salaried job with the power to effectively pardon people by simply not pursuing charges. It was a contract job, paid for prosecuting a single case. It's very depressing what grand juries have been turned into.