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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 5849708" data-attributes="member: 19998">One reason you may want to have multiple contingencies is that, once you've actually committed a major felony like robbing a bank, federal law enforcement has a tendency to get upset.In the U.S. today, law enforcement is fairly pro-active in trying to prevent crimes from happening. Security checkpoints and conspiracy charges are tools used to prevent crimes from happening.If those fail and someone actually commits a major felony, public opinion usually sways to law enforcement and the feds quickly develop a strong sense of duty to catch the offender. I don't know about shows like 24, but the FBI puts a strong emphasis on the "investigation" part of their name and makes getting lots of admissible evidence a priority. Also, the U.S. government isn't particularly picky about they charge you with. They famously have no problem getting violent criminals on things like tax evasion if they have the evidence to back it up. Thus, once a bad guy has actually committed the crime, his best bet is to escape capture because once you've been captured, it's over. Innocent until proven guilty is irrelevant because the feds will have enough evidence to convict him. If he goes to trial, he will serve a longer sentence than if he took the plea. Mostly likely, he'll end up in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Florence_ADX" target="_blank">United States Penitentiary Florence ADMAX (Administrative Maximum Security)</a>, the only super maximum security facility in federal government's prison system.So it makes sense to have multiple escape plans because capture is practically a fate worse than death.</blockquote>

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