When Connecticut’s new governor and state legislators, contemplating state government’s financial collapse, remark that “everything is on the table” for economizing, they’re probably not thinking about the criminal law, since there are no line items in the budget for criminal laws. But criminal laws are as much an expense as anything else state government pays for, even as criminal law may have less to do with protecting the public than with keeping people employed in law enforcement.
A few weeks ago, state police announced with fanfare that they had arrested 13 people, including a radio personality and a Wolcott town councilman, and had seized some fancy cars in connection with an illegal sports betting ring in the Hartford area that had been investigated for more than a year no only by the state police but also by the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the chief state’s attorney’s office. The charges include racketeering, professional gambling, and conspiracy.
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