&gt; And if the FBI wanted to better prevent crime, they&#x27;d also come to the better conclusion.<p>But the FBI isn&#x27;t rewarded for preventing crime. They&#x27;re rewarded for putting people in jail. Hence the perverse incentives.<p>The idea is to have an agency with different incentives, whose job is not to put anyone in jail but only to improve security. Then they would get blamed for security failures which means they would fight against things that cause them.