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Worlder What? Since: Jan, 2001
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#1: May 10th 2011 at 8:18:07 PM

While other groups of organized crime are content with making themselves rich in illegal ways, these guys are out for infamy that will live down in history.

Of course they didn't start out as wanting to kill cops, but what would push the leaders to the insanity of wanting to, metaphorically, bathe themselves in the blood of the men and women of law enforcement?

Oh this isn't just a suicide by cop deal either. They plan the attacks and usually leave without a scratch (even when it is head on against SWAT teams). Not even the cops in the helicopters are safe.

Yes, I know they become more like Terrorists Without a Cause if they can do such a thing and that they are just too perfect for any real dramatic conflict.

melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012
#2: May 10th 2011 at 8:20:47 PM

Rage Against The State, and all that?

People who completely detest the government and its law enforcement branches do exist. It wouldn't take much for them to convince themselves that they're freedom fighters against The Man, who's out to oppress everybody.

Worlder What? Since: Jan, 2001
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#3: May 10th 2011 at 8:31:56 PM

Nice.

I see it now...

"The new boss and few of his friends are now in charge of the gang has a few changes in mind. While drug trafficking and acts of fraud continue, they will no longer be the focus of the organization's attention. Instead vast amounts of resources are dedicated to the acquisition of certain weapons and the tools and knowledge needed to manufacture many others. New recruits will be trained in the art of guerrilla warfare, intelligence gathering, and counter intelligence."

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#4: May 10th 2011 at 8:34:01 PM

Look up the Hashishin?

Depends whether you're going for a corrupt police force being taken out, or an honest one.

Worlder What? Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: May 10th 2011 at 8:45:31 PM

Honest one.

Of course the gang is smart about planning the attacks in a strategic sense.

They will wait under the radar for the city's police force to repopulate to a large enough number, like 12000, then reduce that number to maybe 2000.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#6: May 10th 2011 at 8:46:37 PM

What kind of country is this taking place in? I can't imagine that happening without somebody calling out the Army.

Worlder What? Since: Jan, 2001
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#7: May 10th 2011 at 8:50:14 PM

Oh the Army will be called out.

Of course they know how to fake their own dissolution, only to strike again decades later.

blueharp Since: Dec, 1969
#8: May 10th 2011 at 8:52:48 PM

Decades later? I think that might take a religious cause to make it work then. Simple organized crime isn't that dedicated.

If that's the case, you can use some religious twisting to justify it I guess.

Worlder What? Since: Jan, 2001
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#9: May 10th 2011 at 8:55:01 PM

Ah but nothing to the scale of the Twilight's Hammer.

SavageHeathen Pro-Freedom Fanatic from Somewhere Since: Feb, 2011
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#10: May 15th 2011 at 10:49:21 AM

Well, they are freedom fighters against The Man.

You'd have a hard time to make them unsympathetic. It's not like they're killing workers.

edited 15th May '11 10:51:35 AM by SavageHeathen

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