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On the recordApril 20, 2009
If you leave a situation long enough in chaos, criminality takes over and it becomes much more profitable to be a criminal than to do something else.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin

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Feingold emphasizes the dangers of prolonged chaos leading to criminality.

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