I think the thing too is that trying to, shall we say break that trend and set a new precedence is dangerous. I’ve know people IRL who were victims of devastating robberies, battery, rape, abuse, murders (obviously not themselves but someone close to them) and the cops would half ass pretend to look and then shrug, “Nothing to be done about it!” attitude if they didn’t just straight up tell them to their face they didn’t really care to look into it.

But if a rich person–forget an actually powerful rich person, even just rich by local town’s standards–if a rich person got pushed over and scraped their knee on the curb they scour every CCTV camera within miles going back years, enlist half the free population of the city to scour for evidence, pump it through the media, the FBI is sifting through phone records and every facecam on every phone and laptop and smart doorbell, and when the perpetrator is caught (if they are brought in alive, that is) they are ensured an unbeatable draconian sentence paired with Solitary Confinment Because We Can.

Knees should be scraped, just exercise caution. Keep smart.