History Headscratchers / LawAndOrderCriminalIntent

## Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens (''no'' other adults besides Jojo), and not all of them are even willing to take part in violent actions, so the extent to which the community fears Jojo is completely out of proportion to the actual level of threat he poses. He's able to have ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him taken care of, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if multiple adults banded together, Jojo wouldn't be able to squash that.

## As is shown several times, the stranglehold that Jojo holds on the community extends to parents being willing to cover up ''the murders of their own children''. Is there not one parent in that community, particularly those with no other children for Jojo to be a threat to, who would feel that they have nothing left to lose and/or decide that it's worth the risk to not let their child's murderer get away with it?

## Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens, and of those, only some of them are comfortable with violence, so the extent to which the community fears Jojo is completely out of proportion to the actual level of threat he poses. He's able to have ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him taken care of, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if multiple adults banded together, Jojo wouldn't be able to squash that.

## Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens, and only a subset of those are comfortable with violence, so the extent to which the community fears Jojo is completely out of proportion to the actual level of threat he poses. He's able to have ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him taken care of, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if multiple adults banded together, Jojo wouldn't be able to squash that.

## Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens, and not all of them are comfortable with violence, so the extent to which the community fears Jojo is completely out of proportion to the actual level of threat he poses. He's able to have ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him taken care of, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if multiple adults banded together, Jojo wouldn't be able to squash that.

## Jojo's influence over the kids is largely based on admiration, as he keeps the boys in his thrall with a (completely invented, as it turns out) story about his journey from Cuba to the United States. He doesn't have this kind of thrall over the adults (which makes sense, as most adults aren't going to give a man unquestioning loyalty because of one show of "strength" from his childhood), so why are they as deferential to him as the kids? It seems to be largely fear, but...
## Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens, and not all of them are comfortable with violence. It's enough to pose a danger to ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if even a few dozen of the adults banded together, it would be too much for Jojo to squash.

## Jojo keeps the kids in his thrall with a (completely invented, as it turns out) story about his journey from Cuba to the United States, but most adults aren't going to give a man unquestioning loyalty because of one show of "strength" (which an adult would also recognize as being somewhat a matter of luck) from his childhood, and in fact, none of the adults in the episode ''do'' seem to be acting out of that kind of admiration; his hold on everyone else is entirely through fear.

# Jojo keeps the kids in his thrall with a (completely invented, as it turns out) story about his journey from Cuba to the United States, but most adults aren't going to give a man unquestioning loyalty because of one show of "strength" (which an adult would also recognize as being somewhat a matter of luck) from his childhood, and in fact, none of the adults in the episode ''do'' seem to be acting out of that kind of admiration; his hold on everyone else is entirely through fear.
# Jojo's gang isn't exactly the mafia: we're talking about maybe twenty teenagers and preteens, and not all of them are comfortable with violence. It's enough to pose a danger to ''one'' person who independently confronts/challenges him, like the victim at the beginning of the episode, but if even a few dozen of the adults banded together, it would be too much for Jojo to squash.
# As is shown several times, the stranglehold that Jojo holds on the community extends to parents being willing to cover up ''the murders of their own children''. Is there not one parent in that community, particularly those with no other children for Jojo to be a threat to, who would feel that they have nothing left to lose and/or decide that it's worth the risk to not let their child's murderer get away with it?