Hey, crime does pay!
It sure does. With crime we need police, prison guards, lawyers, and judges. With more crime, we need more of the above. This is the racket that the socialists run. Remember Clinton was to put an extra 100,000 police on the streets rather than take an extra 100,000 criminals off the streets!
At some point paying protection to local gangsters will be cheaper than paying for government. The age of the warlord follows the fall of a decadent overtaxed society. It happened to Rome. It happened to the Soviet Union. It will happen here.