—used to say there is more trouble than benefit from committing a crime
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Last year, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, a critic of Gascon and other soft-on-crime prosecutors, launched a billboard campaign warning criminals that crime doesn't pay in his jurisdiction.—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
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