Oh it definitely happens. Where I grew up, our local psychopaths father was a landlord & Freemason......typically his sons prison sentences were a few months for all kinds of mad violence & got off one major crime, while his accomplices got a good few years each.....
I know a lad who walked after breaking in and battering some kiddy who had been fast up his mrs-anyone one else would of had a proper stretch but this slippery f****r got a few hours community service-over heard his dad bragging in the pub how he "called in all his favours" my mother's oldest brothers a member so I've be