IT WAS PREVENTABLE

A Full-Color Political Satire on Crime, Accountability, and the Last 20 Years

For over two decades, America was told crime was declining, accountability was outdated, and consequences were unfair.
Cities believed it. Media repeated it. Politicians enforced it.

THIS WAS PREVENTABLE is a 26-page, full-color, oversized (10x10”) illustrated satire that dissects how crime policy, selective enforcement, media narratives, and political cowardice reshaped public safety—and why the same people responsible still refuse to own the results.

This book doesn’t lecture.
It shows.

Through bold editorial cartoons and sharp visual parody, readers are taken on a page-by-page tour of:

• The revolving-door justice system

• Prosecutors who decline to prosecute

• Judges who release repeat offenders

• Gun laws that disarm the compliant

• Media coverage that changes based on convenience

• Victims questioned harder than criminals

• Statistics massaged, buried, or ignored

• Blame shifted endlessly—never upward

Every illustration is designed to stand on its own, delivering uncomfortable truths with dark humor and unmistakable clarity.

This is not a children’s book.
This is not neutral.
This is political satire in the tradition of MAD Magazine, Orwellian irony, and hard editorial cartooning—created for readers who believe accountability matters and reality can’t be edited forever.