The United States is a money society. This does not mean that anyone is blackmailing the other, because this is the fact, and Americans themselves think so. Money makes things easier, and this is especially true in the United States, where the gamblers who sue Saji are very easy to deal with.
Just give me money.
Portman took the list he got from the casino, threw the US dollars directly in front of those people, and everything was settled. And Portman is an asshole, and some things really need to be handled by assholes. With Portman offering US dollars and implicit threats, many people said they would withdraw the lawsuit on the spot.
The corrupt prosecutors and complicit police officers ignored these messes. In less than a day, all the lawsuits against Saji were settled. At the same time, the criminal prosecution regarding Saji's causing trouble in public places was easier to handle. The casino stopped pursuing it and gave the police a little money, which quickly smoothed it all away.
However, neither Saji nor his father Vaughn could accept this. They do not feel that they are at fault, nor do they feel that there is anything commendable about spending money to settle these lawsuits. They even express shame at all this.
"If you don't like it, then change it. Instead of sitting here and complaining." Why does Kai like this kind of nonsense? He was a criminal policeman in his previous life, and what he despised the most was this kind of nonsense, but how could he live in this world and not do anything wrong? The adult world is cruel. However, it is not impossible to change these status quos. "Do you still remember the idea you told us before?"
"Be a policeman?" Saji thought.
"That's right! Just to be a police officer." Kai said decisively. To deal with this gang of gangsters, no identity is enough. It just so happens that Kai will do two things in his life, one is to be a soldier, and the other is to be a policeman. So he was still very tempted by Saji's proposal before.
Their previous opinion was to be a police officer in Wyndham City, but it was just a police officer, and it didn't matter where they did it. Even working as a police officer in the town gives you a little more freedom.
In the United States, there are many types of police officers.
The police in the United States are mainly divided into three levels: federal, state, and city and county. The federal and state police exercise the police powers granted by the federal and state respectively. Sub-state police powers are determined by each state. Local police include states, counties, and cities. In addition to police, there are also agents, ATF, inspectors, ICE, detectives, patrols, and sheriffs. County Sheriff), marshal (Department of Justice Marshal), this is not all, the postal service has police, forestry has police, national parks have police, fisheries and wildlife have police, prison guards (this is a must), the capital Washington DC also has independent The most shocking thing about the police is that many of them are temporary workers and are also counted as police officers.
Among them, small towns like Jiade Town also have their own police officers, and these police officers are not appointed by Wyndham City. This kind of small town police is different from the PD in big cities. They are also called security guards. They are private police hired by the townspeople themselves. It was the people of the town who gave them the power to enforce the law.
In fact, Garter Town only gave the Sheriff, that is, Sheriff, the power of law enforcement, and then the Sheriff recruited police officers. The town police were under the command of Sheriff, and the position of Sheriff was not appointed by any living organization, but is elected.
The Sheriff is not accountable to any specific person and is not subject to the leadership of the County Sheriff or the supervision of the County Council. All he needs to be responsible for is the voters. Even the funds for the police station are raised by the Sheriff. This is the case in a small place like Guardian Town. The town itself has insufficient funds and cannot provide much funds to the police.
So generally speaking, the powers of the Sheriff are quite large. And I don’t have any bosses, so I’m definitely a local coward.
The reason why the small town police chose to collude with the gangs is also here, they also need to make ends meet. The town's economy is getting worse and worse, and the police officers' salaries are naturally getting smaller and smaller. In order to support the brothers under his command, the sheriff can only do bad things.
It just so happens that the Sheriff election is coming soon. In the past, the position of the Sheriff was a hot potato. He did not charge much and had many things to do. No one would compete with the current Sheriff. This just gave Kai and the others a chance.
As long as you have the identity of a police officer, you will naturally be able to deal with these gangsters!
"But...will anyone support us?" Saji was a little hesitant. He had not returned to his hometown for six years. And Kai, Meatball and Portman are proper outsiders!
Kai was a little speechless. "Do you think, with the current moral character of the small town police, there will be people who will support them?"
"That's right! I will go back and tell the others right away that I will choose you to be the Sheriff! Let the worms in the town die as far away as possible!" Father Vaughn slapped his thigh and immediately supported Kai's idea. In his opinion, no matter how hard he said it, Kai was still his son's comrade-in-arms and commander. Much more trustworthy than those crooked police officers!
After Kai and his father said this, Saji also understood. Let’s not talk about whether Kai and them are trustworthy. The original group of people have already been hacked to the end. Even if the ending is bad, can it be worse than now? Why don't the townspeople elect someone new to be the Sheriff? At least outsiders like Kai have nothing to do with those gangsters, right?
So Saji immediately started his activities in the hospital bed. He called his friends and asked them to support him and Kai to run for sheriff.
…
About a month later, the election for Sheriff took place as scheduled. The original Sheriff never expected that the residents of the town would support an outsider instead of continuing to support his re-election. Saji and his father knew that the Sheriff had been colluding with those gangsters, so they did not make a big splash at the beginning, but secretly canvassed votes until the day of the election, when they turned against each other and brought down the original Sheriff. The election was made and Kai was elected as the new Sheriff!
It's very simple, not difficult at all, just like primary school students choosing class president.
Then Kay, an out-of-towner, was announced in the gymnasium of the town's high school where the election was being held. And as soon as he was elected, he fulfilled his promise.
Fire all the original police officers!
These police officers were all recruited by the Sheriff himself, so their decision to leave or leave naturally only requires a word from the Sheriff.
The policemen ran away on the spot. As the saying goes: Cutting off a person's wealth is like killing his parents.
These words are the same wherever you put them.
These policemen are living a very prosperous life now. The police salary is part of their income, and helping Hamilton is another part of their income. In this way, one person has two incomes. Now that I have been fired and all my income has been cut off, it would be strange not to go berserk.
But Kai didn't care about this. He immediately recruited Saji, Meatball and Portman, as well as several of Saji's friends on the spot. These people had agreed in advance. He, Rouqiu, and Portman are all outsiders. To make the locals feel at ease, they must have locals as guarantees. The purpose of recruiting several of Saji's friends was to calm the hearts of the local people.
Kai took out a few police badges and threw them to them, and then asked them to deal with these troublemakers.
Because the moment Kai announced that they were being fired, they were no longer police officers and would be caught if they caused trouble!
Everything is planned.
And these former police officers did not have the courage to use their guns in broad daylight, and they were punished badly.
Saji has endured it for almost a month and was discharged from the hospital yesterday. His body is not feeling well. But he was the most angry, so he beat a group of guys with bandages until they screamed. Portman was the most despicable and the most careless in his attacks. He specifically targeted the vital parts. Every one of the guys he attacked rolled on the ground with their crotches in their hands and cried so hard.
Although Rouqiu was very accurate, he didn't hold back much. Those who were dealt with by him were sitting on the ground in a daze holding their heads, unable to get up.
Afterwards, Kai led his men to suppress the group of grandchildren and went straight to the police station and sealed the gun warehouse. Don't throw away the things in here. If you do, big problems will arise. Don’t think that the United States does not ban guns, just because the United States has very lax gun management. In fact, the United States is not sloppy at all in gun management. After all, no one is a fool. If there are so many guns hanging around outside without supervision, the world will definitely be in chaos. In particular, the guns in the police station are strictly supervised. The bullets and barrels are strictly numbered, and all are recorded.
When police shoot, they need to report it afterwards, and the bullets need to be recovered afterwards.
Anyway, if someone takes away the gun from the police station, Kai, the new Sheriff, will not be able to live with it.
…
In the casino.
Hamilton looked at a bunch of unemployed policemen and felt very troubled. There was no way, the guy named Kai was so fierce that he fired all the police officers as soon as he came up. He didn't know how to deal with it at the moment.
In order to win over this group of police officers, Hamilton put in a lot of effort. It's great now, someone has taken care of me. In other words, all the previous investment was in vain.
What made him even worse was that he couldn't ignore these policemen when they came to see him. Others did work for him anyway, but now a group of people have no income, and they can't find anyone except him. After all, in the final analysis, it was because of him that these people were fired.
Of course, it's okay for Hamilton to ignore it. He is a gangster businessman who is out to make money, not a philanthropist. There is no need to feed these people.
But looking back, these fired police officers are not useless at all. They know how to shoot, have been policemen, and know a lot about some things. Now they are gangsters, so their expertise is the right one.
"You stay in the casino for now." Hamilton decided to accept this group of people.
Hamilton doesn't just do the casino business, that's how much money he makes. The real money-making business is illegal drugs! Even though Jiade Town is a very remote place, the geographical environment is actually quite good. To the north is Canada, which is also a huge market.
To the east is Lake Superior, one of the five Great Lakes in the United States. The Great Lakes are the same again. Through the Great Lakes waterways, he could buy laundry detergent to cities around the Great Lakes, especially Chicago, which was the largest crime capital in the United States and had almost endless demand for laundry detergent and other contraband.
These people are policemen, and they are well versed in the policeman's business. Apart from anything else, letting them sell drugs is definitely much better than the newbies who are new to the industry. Moreover, their status as police officers can fool many people. Besides, as long as you are brave, you can let them drive a police car to sell drugs!
Eh... thinking about it, Hamilton felt that he had thought of another way!
"But what about those people?"
"who?"
"Sage's gang! Are we going to let this go?" These fired policemen are still unconvinced. Why should they fire us? They have lost their position as police officers and do not feel they have done anything wrong.
"Let me think about it."
Not to mention, although Hamilton is powerful, he really doesn't dare to do anything to a bunch of police officers. The identity of a police officer does not seem to be very good. But the reality is that no matter what kind of police they are, they still have a strong deterrent effect on criminals like them, otherwise society would have been in chaos long ago.
But reality did not give Hamilton any extra choices.
…
"What's going on?" Kai drove the police and Portman to a house.
It was Saji who called them here.
When they arrived, a lot of people had gathered outside the house, as well as ambulances and paramedics. Saji was like an ant on a hot pot at this time, waiting anxiously behind a group of ambulance personnel.
"It's Saji's nephew. Overdose."
The Sage family has settled in this town for sixty years and has many relatives. This family and Saji are cousins. His cousin encountered a black bear while going hunting in the mountains a few years ago and was gored to death by a blind bear. Only orphans and widows were left in the family.
But this kid didn't learn well at a young age. He took drugs in his garage with a bunch of classmates, and the result was tragic...
Sighing, Kai really had nothing to say to these children in America. Everyone uses drugs as a symbol of freedom, as if anyone who dares not to take drugs is a coward. Everyone uses that thing as a fashion... I don't know whether it's because they have a bad mind or because they live a too good life.
If Kai had followed Kai's idea and dragged these grandsons out and beaten them up, everything would have been fine. But in the United States, hitting a child will attract the police at any time, and if you don't do it well, you will be sued. There are two institutions in the United States that are the most difficult to handle.
One is the IRS, and the other is various minor protection agencies.
Regardless of the IRS, this organization is the best in the United States. Needless to say, others have directly equipped 30,000 mountain mechanized divisions. If they don't pay taxes, they will be sanctioned by the Iron Fist!
The other is those minor protection agencies. They don’t have strong law enforcement power, but others stand on the moral high ground. Anyone who faces this kind of organization must be reasonable but weak, otherwise public opinion will spray you to death.
The reason why these children seek death is not only because their lives are too good, but also because they are spoiled!
Kai shook his head and did not bother Saji. Instead, he walked towards several children who were being questioned by other police officers.
Each of these boys is still staring blankly, obviously still in a state of excitement, and their words are clouded and unclear.
Kai waved his hand and told the others to go away.
"Tam, you and Kingston give way first and let me do it."
These two friends of Saji joined the police department newly. They are all locals. There are only about 2,000 people in Jiade Town, and everyone in the town knows each other. There is nothing they can do about these two naughty kids.
Kai looked at them and refused to ask why. So I can only do it myself.
Kai was much rougher. He picked up a boy by his collar, lifted him into the air, and then slammed him into the ambulance behind him!
bump!
"Boy! Where did those washing powder come from? Who sold it to you?!!!"
The boy who was in a daze immediately woke up a lot, and when he saw Kai's murderous look on his face, he was so scared that he even peed!
