• Bay_of_Piggies [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Literal highwaymen right? They’re acting as a bully community that shakes down people who pass by. It’s just the updated verison of a minor system within a greater whole indicating social decay and/or poverty. There must be technical anthropological words to describe this. I wonder how recent the community has subsided like this. Is it an old, old tradition, or something new based on socio-economic and cultural changes?

    • YouKnowIt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Apparently the new police chief, hired in 2021, quadrupled the number of cops with cops that were fired from other places. So they’ve got a dude just building an official bandit camp a couple hours north of Houston, I fucking love America

      Here’s where I’m pulling it from. I like that it says both that the current size is 5x larger than the largest force at a similar sized town, but the new head pig only quadrupled the force. So it’s not a new thing but it’s recently gotten drastically worse. Bonus points for the mayor pretending that they didn’t know what was going on or that they don’t have records for how many cops they have