The promise of any crime is that it would go unpunished.
Those who benefited from it would never be caught or revealed.
A crime is a shortcut to create an irreversible circumstance,
Whereby there were no shortcuts and no open paths.
Crimes like lies tend to catch up with the perpetrators.
But the scope is to delay the retribution and reach a safer ground.
Where a settlement is possible, desirable or some compromise,
Whereby a victim accepts some role in the crime,
And the owner owns in part their crime.
Crimes in our time do not get justice but a compromise.
Crime is a zero sum game for too many state actors that are criminals.