First things first, thank you for not hacking away at me simply because I participated in this thread.
At first glance, by reading my post it may seem I am advocating mafia. I am not.
The message I tries to get across is that Mafia wants the city to be shipshape, clean as a fiddle, so that "business" can go on as usual.
Create fracas, and the Police will go ape. Whereas "kill a cop" may be a "rite of passage", it is just as true nobody wants an extra 1000 troopers shipped in because DoJ is foaming at the mouth.
As for the issue about the Chinese, no, it was not a chinese gang raping a girl, it was a young (late teens) mother clutching her baby who was taken, kidnapped and gandraped to death. Literally.
The Police went on the hunt, but the chinese community was mounrning and very tight-lipped, and by the few and broken witness reports obtained, the perpetrators were "possibly fomr the Middle East". Who knows, maybe they were.
What is certain, two young NorthAfricans (from Morocco) were found... one hung to a tree with his hand tied behind his back - clearly a suicide...
...the other beaten to hamburger standards...
(Yes, there was a case of 5 chinese gang-raping an Italian girl, one of these was the son of a High ranking diplomat. He was arrested all the same, there are ways you can waive diplomatic immunity and throw the guy in jail if you really want to.)
Anyway, back to the "Mafia" discussion, what I meant is that the Mafia will ensure that there are no "mad dogs", no "independent" petty criminals running about, because it raises public outcry for more law and order.
So, how does all this apply to "restoring Law and Order" ?
Make it extremely NOT worth it to break the rules.
Shoot first - a very unpopular move, but sometimes it will save lives.
When in Court, apply max. sentence, let them rot in jail waiting for the appeals Copurt to summon you.
Paradrop illegal criminals back where they came from; no need to fly, land and fly back, just open the hatch and geronimo! they're going, going, going... gone.
Soylent Green... inmates should be well fed...
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