"What house is this?" Rorschach and Jessica asked casually as they walked out of a victim's home.
"The fifth family." Jessica said weakly.
In fact, what Jessica hates the most is meeting the families of the victims. In fact, meeting the families of the victims at the police station is the most unpleasant job. All aspects of life are most naked in the face of life and death. Seeing the families of the victims Sad, very disturbing in the first place. It would be even worse if we meet a few weird family members.
This job is just like doing emergency medicine, you can see all kinds of things in the world.
Let's put it this way, anything you encounter in these two places is bound to be bad!
Jessica's psychological quality was not good to begin with, otherwise she wouldn't have been drinking alcohol every day because of her psychological shadow. She was such a beautiful woman and became drunk. Despite her carefree appearance, she looks very manly, but in fact, she is extremely sensitive on the inside.
This afternoon, I visited five families, but these five families were all happy families and had excellent relationships with their relatives.
Visiting them, you can imagine the atmosphere.
Jessica felt depressed.
I felt very depressed, especially when the family members looked at them, each one full of hope. That hope was like a whip whipping Jessica's fragile conscience. Several times she wanted to turn around and run away.
On the contrary, Rorschach was very calm, his tone did not change, and he still asked various questions in a formulaic manner. Even if the family members collapsed because of all the things they thought about their family members, he did not waver at all, just like a cold-blooded machine.
This made Jessica unhappy but also admired her very much.
"how did you do it?"
Rorschach: "Don't put your personal feelings into the case. It will only affect the handling of the case and won't do any good."
"But they...aren't you touched at all?"
"Touched?" Luo Xia didn't look back, but he was protected. It didn't make much difference whether he turned back or not. Anyway, he couldn't see his expression: "Of course."
Even though he was used to seeing misery, Rorschach was not numb. If he were really numb, he would not do this job. It's just that he learned to control: "But those emotions are not helpful to their situation at all. They will only aggravate their sadness. They are rubbish emotions. What we have to do is to avenge those victims. As for other... people can't always Living in sadness, what they should do is to get out of that negative emotion! So our emotions have no positive effect on them. In addition, what is needed to investigate the case is professionalism, not emotion!"
Jessica was speechless, but she was still a little unconvinced.
But Rorschach obviously didn't care about this, and said directly: "What do you find these families have in common?"
"What they have in common?" Jessica obviously didn't adapt to Rorschach's conversational rhythm, so why did she turn to this?
But still trying to keep up.
"Is the family environment very good?"
Although none of the five families they visited were wealthy, they were mainly middle-class. They had their own houses, not rented ones, and more than one car.
"No! The data shows that the financial situation of several families is not optimistic." This guess was directly rejected by Rorschach.
"what is that?"
"It's the atmosphere, it's the atmosphere, do you understand?" Luo Xia directly revealed the answer.
"Atmosphere?" Jessica tilted her head.
"Yes, a happy family does not necessarily require money. The family atmosphere of those families just now is very good, and the relationship between the family members is very good. This is true for five families in a row!" Rorschach said.
"Then shall we continue to visit?"
"Of course, we need the movement tracks of these families! And the more detailed the better! This is not a random murder, but a premeditated serial sandman case! There must be some connection between them, otherwise how did the murderer choose the target?"
"ah?!"
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"Boss!" Heavy Artillery brought a little man into the office.
This little guy is Jesse's former 'friend' Porgy!
That Italian!
Criminal middleman.
"Hi, how have you been in prison lately?" Saji said happily when he saw the little fat man who was full of joy.
Porgy was directly arrested by Jessica and taken to the police station because of the gangster gang incident. At first, Jessica just wanted to scare this guy and see if she could get any information from him. After entering the police station, , this guy said he had no intention of going out.
Be sure to stay at the police station.
He knew that with his status, if he entered the police station and walked out of it with nothing wrong, there would definitely be a lot of people who would cause trouble for him.
No one would believe that he and the police were just drinking coffee in the police station.
So in order to save his own life, he insisted on entering the game.
For this reason, he even went so far as to blow himself up and produce a pile of evidence of his crime.
Then he got his wish and went to jail.
Needless to say, this guy had a pretty good life in prison, because he was short and fat. Although the big brothers in the prison suppressed his appearance, no one liked him, so he escaped from the soap. Then relying on his connections and sharp tongue, he lived a prosperous life in prison.
Needless to say, Poji never thought that prison would be a blue ocean before.
There is a huge demand for various daily necessities. Among them, cigarettes and drugs are in greatest demand.
Someone said that if business is done in prison, does the prison not care about it?
Tube?
Of course, those who don't follow the rules and give confessions to the prison guards will naturally be punched out.
But Poggi is such a thief.
He had already asked people outside to bribe the prison guards, and then started selling goods in the prison.
As for drug abuse in prisons... Haha, you may not know how many drug addicts there are in American prisons. Do you think they can stop taking drugs after going to jail?
If prisons had this effect, the drug epidemic problem in the United States would not be so serious.
On the contrary, drug trafficking has formed an industrial chain in major prisons in the United States.
Especially those in private prisons are the most serious.
First of all, private prisons lack supervision. The number of prison guards in many private prisons is less than half that of state prisons or federal prisons! It is also accompanied by various scandals, but usually no one cares about it and no one takes care of it. Private prisons in the United States are like an old cesspit that has not been cleaned in ten years. They cannot be opened. If they are opened, they will stink to death!
Secondly, private prisons are set up for profit, although they do not provide drugs to prisoners... If this is the case, no matter how big their background is, they cannot stop Taotao's public opinion. But in order to make profits, those capitalists dare to do anything.
Because the federal subsidy for each prisoner is limited, in order to make a profit, they can only increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
How to increase revenue and reduce expenditure?
Open source will naturally increase the occupancy rate. They will bribe judges and prosecutors and send more people to prison.
The most obvious example is a real-life example. In 2016, the case of a judge named Powell came to light. Powell is a judge who specializes in judging juvenile offenders. Because he accepted bribes from a private prison group, Powell was convicted in just two years. During the trial, 2,500 juvenile offenders were tried, and the sentences of 2,432 were deliberately lengthened. According to data, Powell's average trial length was only about four minutes. What's even more outrageous is that there was once a 14-year-old child who was sentenced to ten years by Powell just for scolding his mother. The kid later died in prison...in a private prison.
Dating back to 2003, the corruption incidents in Pennsylvania were even more shocking, with the youngest victim being ten years old. Two judges accepted $2 million from private prison contractors. In order to repay the contractor, the two unscrupulously sent more than 4,000 teenagers to prison within five years to help private prisons make profits. One of the victims was sentenced to three months in prison by a judge for just posting a joke and false information on the school website. The entire trial lasted less than a minute. Before the victim could even defend himself, he was taken to the prison van.
In addition to increasing occupancy rates, there is also the use of high treatment to make money. For example, the prison will provide various services as long as you pay! You can even live in prison like you're in a resort hotel!
Then there’s the throttling.
How to reduce expenditure is to compress costs as much as possible. The treatment of prisoners in private prisons is worse than slavery, with high-intensity labor and treatment that maintains the minimum living standards... This is also a way to promote high consumption. Don't you want to live like a slave? Then you have to spend money!
In addition, there are maintenance costs.
Prison guards are part of the maintenance cost. Not only are the number of prison guards in private prisons smaller than those in state prisons and federal prisons, but their pay is less than half that of public prisons!
Save costs.
What should I do if prison guards are treated poorly?
Of course, it's the backing of the mountain.
So the prison guards began to pick apart the prison inmates.
This environment is most suitable for an old gun like Porgy.
He was indeed living a very nourishing life.
Prison and the outside world are two completely different ecologies. As long as the relationship within the prison is managed well, ordinary people can't really touch him.
"Thanks to all the bosses for taking care of me!" Boji quickly bent down and rubbed his hands, looking like a treacherous philistine.
In fact, Boji hated the special department and Jessica at first. He was disinfected outside so much that he was willing to go to prison.
But after spending several months in prison, his view completely changed.
Prison is great!
As long as you have money, what is there in prison?
Still safe!
The key is that there is so much money to be made in prison!
A pack of cigarettes outside will multiply three or four times inside! Not to mention drugs!
He doesn't care where the prisoners' money comes from, as long as he can make money!
At the same time, prison is also the best talent market. There are everyone in there, everyone has skills and speaks well. He likes it there very much.
He can recruit his younger brothers here to strengthen his power, and then after he is released from prison... Hahahaha, have you heard of the return of the Dragon King? ! !
But now the people from the Special Branch are looking for him again...what happened?
"I came to you to get some information from you."
"No!" Whatever you're afraid of, you'll get what you want. The most hated person in the prison is the Erwuzi! He had managed to get himself into jail before because he was afraid that others would think he was a kid. He went to jail just to tell those partners who had done business with him that I didn't say anything. It was because I didn't say anything that I went to jail.
This statement makes most partners feel a little relieved.
After all, the reason is very simple. If he was really a young man, they would have been confessed long ago, and then this dwarf would not go to jail.
But now the special department is here again?
What the hell...can you please stop looking for me!
"Hehe... I'm fair." Saji knew how to deal with this kind of gangster. He directly took out a document: "This is a prisoner transfer document. As long as I take him to the prosecutor, You will be transferred to other prisons immediately, including Florence ADX Prison! I believe you have heard of the reputation of this prison."
Florence ADX Prison is the highest security and toughest prison in the United States. It houses the most violent and dangerous criminals in the United States, including rapists, robbers, and serial killers. More than 80% of the prisoners are sentenced to life imprisonment, and some He is a death row prisoner. Some of the prisoners have suffered from mental illness. Once a prisoner steps foot here, he will basically have no contact with the outside world for the rest of his life. There are about 400 serious prisoners in the prison, and ordinary prisoners are not eligible to enter.
There are many gangs there and there have been many scuffles. But no matter how hard the prisoner flutters, he still cannot escape from this steel-like cage.
The size of the cell is 3.5 by 2 meters. All eating, drinking and sleeping are done here. The completely soundproof design leaves no chance for prisoners to communicate with each other. What about the playground? It doesn't exist at all. All the furniture in the room is made of concrete, and the narrow windows only provide a limited view of the scenery, so the prisoner cannot determine where he is. As for escaping, he cannot even think about it. The 1,400 remote-controlled doors in the prison are all controlled by a central system, and prison guards rarely come into close contact with prisoners. In addition to surveillance cameras everywhere, the prison is also equipped with motion sensors. In the event of any movement, all doors will be locked immediately. As for the periphery, there are many institutions. The entire prison is surrounded by a 3.65-meter-high fence, and there is a lethal discharge barbed wire on it.
"No? You are trying to force me to death!"
Porgy was about to cry.
Of course he had heard of Florence ADX Prison, which was a hell for all prisoners. During the first three years after entering the prison, prisoners were not allowed to have any contact with other prisoners and had only one hour of activity time every day. A concrete shaft 5 meters long and 3 meters wide is their range of activities. They walk back and forth in circles to stretch their stiff bodies. This is also the only opportunity to look up at the sky. Once the time is up, the remaining 23 hours will be complete isolation time. The suffocating closed environment caused them to develop various mental disorders, such as depression, self-mutilation, anxiety, etc. Some even experienced hallucinations and even suicidal tendencies.
The key is that his career has just started!
In fact, he knew very well that Saji deceived him, and he was not qualified to go to ADX prison. But the problem is that if he is transferred now, won’t all his early investment be lost?
So he simply couldn't accept it.
"It depends on whether you cooperate or not."
Boji's heart skipped a beat, and he decided to give up.
"Okay, what news do you want?"
"The Shark Gang, your old customers."
"The Sharks? Those Puerto Ricans?"
The Shark Gang is a gang that operates between 68th Street and 110th Street in the Lower East Side of Haddon. Although it is not big, it has a long history. The Shark Gang has been around since the 1980s.
Originally, the Shark Gang was a small player in the whole of New York and could not make waves. However, since the Kingpin broke up and the New York gangs were reshuffled, the Shark Gang has risen. They first killed the aircraft with whom they had a territorial dispute. help. It was a small white gang, all low-class white people.
It has grown rapidly since then and now extends beyond the Lower East Side.
He is considered a relatively outstanding gangster.
Poggi has done a lot of business with them before, but this group of Puerto Ricans has very bad credit, and there are always problems with the balance payment. In the end, the two sides broke up, and Poggi was hunted by them for a while. However, due to Poggi's wide network of contacts, Poggi was fine in the end.
But if it were them and Naboji betrayed them, there would be no psychological burden at all.
After all, Puerto Ricans are not a strong ethnic group in the United States... There are not many Puerto Rican immigrants in the United States. And since Puerto Ricans are quite xenophobic, it is destined that the upper limit of the Shark Gang is not high, and he is not afraid of offending them!
You have the guts to send someone to the prison to find me!
"You said them! That's no problem. What do you want to know?"
(End of chapter)
