MouthBQ98 said:
Investigations sufficient to get a prosecution take weeks or months, then you need to secure an indictment. These things never happen fast. I don't know where this delusion has developed that the criminal Justice process ever happens quickly has developed but if you actually want to WIN the case versus doing stuff for show and to harass, it takes time. It does not happen like you see in fictional media, all in tidy 1 hour episodes.
Except for civil forfeiture.
Putting a freeze on assets is incredibly easy. Too easy, IMO. But, nothing is going to change in DC until someone has the stones to throw their weight around with this tool.
It is INCREADIBLY effective at destroying criminal enterprises around drugs. When you stop the flow of money at its source, criminals abandon ship at breakneck speed before they catch a bullet or an indictment.
This country needs another coming of Elliot Ness to just wreck freaking shop in DC.
It takes a special kind of brainwashed useful idiot to politically defend government fraud, waste, and abuse.