One shoe bomber terrorist inspired the US to invest billions in airport security, required hundreds of millions of shoes to be removed.
That's because there was a risk that was known.
But there are a million psychopaths and over eight million sociopaths who we know are out there, predators, doing damage, hurting people, killing people, bullying, stalking, stealing, corrupting.
A small percentage get caught. Most of the ones who get caught are the low functioning, stupid ones, the violent ones, the ones who have co-morbid problems like drug addiction or alcoholism. The smart ones, the higher functioning ones get jobs at big corporations, in city, state and federal government. They even become judges and certainly become lawyers too.
Some speculate that it takes a sociopath to become a CEO of a major fortune 1000 company.
One commenter on a previous article in the series suggested
Given the current situation, there's no protection from sociopaths who navigate the system avoiding arrest. They break rules but then intimidate or bully or charm people to cut them slack. They turn on their interpersonal intelligence to gain sympathy from those who say we should show them compassion. The best current defense may indeed be to leave. That's not acceptable to me, and of course, killing is not acceptable.... The best defense is not to engage with them. You can't win. If you are forced to work with a psychopath then you either kill him or leave."
That's why I'm engaging in writing this series. Good people should not have to leave to be safe from sociopaths.
Comment: Just for fun: CIA considers Israel one of its biggest spy threats, but the US continues to fund their military adventures