That&#x27;s %65 of the amount that would otherwise have potentially gone to pay liabilities to the people wronged.  Instead of going to the victims of those accidents or that fraud, it went to the government.<p>This is the amazing thing about the government provided judicial system-- for many crimes, instead of making the victim whole, the &quot;justice&quot; system instead profits via fines, or denies the victim justice by incarcerating the criminal.<p>Which would be better for, say, a person convicted of stealing a car and then wrecking it-- going to jail for 5 years or paying the owner of the car 5 times its retail value (over the next 10 years)?<p>The &quot;justice&quot; system will put him in jail, making it effectively impossible for him to repay his victim and make the victim whole.<p>Whether this supports an argument for a police state or not, it certainly supports an argument for corruption-- denying victims compensation and taking it for yourself (in the form of fines, or more bodies for the prison industrial complex which pays you back in campaign donations) is corruption.