After that, there was a rapid decline in sentences for joke tellers, with the last verdict in 1972 against three engineers who had told jokes in the breakfast break. Nevertheless, the Stasi has continued to capture joke narrators, but nobody was convicted. In the 1980s, reports of popular sentiment delivered by the Stasi to SED district councils on a monthly basis revealed more and more statements about political jokes recounted in company, union, and even party rallies.