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The SEC isn't tasked with being the nearly sole dispensary of state violence over a slice of territory containing millions of people. NYPD is.

Occupying territory is expensive.

They are both extremely important.

There’s far more waste in other federal agencies if you need to find one, NYPD is probably not a good one to point fingers at.

Worth noting the SEC is a civil regulatory agency, not a criminal one.

We could send many more Strongly Worded Letters to criminals and they would be on much nicer paper.

The NYC police can't file criminal charges either; they just investigate and then send cases off to the local DA. The SEC does the same thing; the SEC does the investigative work, but they refer criminal cases to the Justice Department for prosecution.

The SEC is basically captured at this point. Who is going to vote to give the SEC more funding and power? Our leaders who are insider trading themselves?

Raphael Bostic insider trading as president of the Atlanta Fed was practically a non-story.

Most people just don't care.