He had said Maggie, the law knows only what it has seen and heard.
The law must know it is contributing to the problem.
They'll be afraid to go to the police, because the law would know they purchased stolen property.
Crime was rampant in Chicago, although the law didn't know it.
The only way the law knows is by looking at the facts - all possible information.
The local law would know, as he hadn't, that this was a box with only one exit.
The law knows what they are going to do with him.
Steve decided that the law could know the facts, so far as he'd dictated them.
"What if someone violates the law and nobody knows about it until after the election?"
Anyone determined to break the law with impunity knows to cover their face.