Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of perjury related to a COVID-19 financial hardship withdrawal and a false statement on a loan application.
My mayor had some campaign finance issues and her husband was running some mid-level drug ring. (https://13wham.com/news/local/police-presence-on-woodman-park-in-rochester). It is almost like people in power commit more crimes than the average person.
Government is just a Mafia with make up.
“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
Omit "almost" and you have it right. Some governments function like organized crime.