>>55981648>what do the bought out police force careThe same reason why the Thai restaurant that is totally a front for a syndicate makes sure no homeless people loiter anywhere near their business. That kind of negative attention cuts into their bottom line.
I spent some time in Guatemala City ($400 for a round trip, I'd be nuts to turn that down), a metropolis with half of an entire country's population stuffed inside a bowl about the size of downtown Chicago. Amazing beer down there, but wealth divide didn't even begin to cover it. A $200,000US/month apartment with armed security and automated gates was just a three-minute walk from steel shanty villages and dirt roads. The Presidential Palace was practically bordered by the heart of Guatemalan gangland, and I only found that out after walking right through the middle of that district unmolested while admiring the graffiti on the walls (plot armor).
In that city, muggings and carjackings were seen as actual blue-collar professions for the lower-class, with professional standards of conduct. Thieves plied their 9-5 on the streets and then went home to their families for the evening so as to avoid competing with the police patrols collecting ""donations"" for the city's fire department after dark. It was considered very poor form to resist being robbed (the warning is a courtesy to you so they don't have to shoot you dead, your cell phone can feed a family unit for a week), just as it was also considered very unprofessional to have to shoot someone dead. A single murder puts the squeeze on every stratum of thief in the city. People avoid the crime scene for a while, emergency crews have to take time out of their busy schedules, police have to investigate, and tourists get cold feet about visiting (and bringing their money with). It simply isn't financially sustainable to just let people soil the streets whenever they want to, and no self-respecting corrupt underbelly will let that behavior slide for very long.
