"Things have not been so good lately, try not to go out after dark!"
Lynch had just returned to Sabine City not long after Ferrell had approached the door, casually saying a few words about some of the current problems with Sabine's social security and reminding Lynch to try not to leave the house after dark.
Sometimes it made people feel ridiculous, the Baylor Federation being the most technologically advanced country on the planet, and at least up to this point the economy was considered highly developed, the crime rate was actually ridiculously high as well.
Every year a large backlog of difficult to detect the case is said to have filled several industrial warehouses, yes, this is the kind of probably more than ten meters twenty meters high, covering an area of thousands of square meters of industrial warehouses.
Each shelf was filled with all kinds of files and evidence, but these cases also ended here, at least before a breakthrough discovery occurred, all the cases would not be mentioned in people's minds and would eventually be forgotten, and then these records of evil would be burned to ashes under the watchful eyes of many people involved.
And the fires they emit as they burn will light up the city ... or they may just light up a few light bulbs and we all know that's about it for fire power.
So unless it's one of those cases that has a big social impact, it can't be solved in a short period of time, and it ends up going away.
With the emergence of various situations in society, the crime rate began to get higher and higher, those who have nothing to do and desperately short of money, some of them began to take risks, according to the statistics of the Sabine Police Department, since three years ago, the rate of burglary has been exploding trend has continued to grow, and even today there is no downward trend seen.
Every day, dozens of burglaries are reported to the police through the alarm system, and there may be more burglaries that have occurred without anyone calling the police.
Because these people don't have anything to steal anymore, so they don't have to annoy the burglars.
It was like the burglary case that Lynch had called the police about earlier, the police just came to take a statement, they wouldn't send a special police force, they would just remind some of the people who were selling the stolen goods through their own channels to watch the circulation of the stolen goods, which in some cases had a high degree of recognition.
This is still the statement of the police to lynch some good sense of spontaneous behavior, if a common or even ugly people, they will not waste a phone call money to spread the news, and finally the case will not be closed.
Various cases of violence, robbery and such vicious cases also occurred frequently, and the city had become unsafe.
"Why don't you organize manpower to clean up these gang members?" Lynch asked with some curiosity, in his opinion, trying to solve the crime rate was actually a very simple thing, at least he didn't think it would be too difficult.
Ferrell on the other hand laughed and shook his head, he just took this as a somewhat naive idea of this young man Lynch, "You may not know that during the first half of the year, when the local police department solved each case, the discounted cost of police and material resources invested in each case was around three hundred to one thousand dollars, this includes those cases that were closed in time and have not been solved yet. "
"You know the justice system of the Federation, sometimes there's nothing you can do, even if some people already know the answer, you have to follow the rules and steps required by law."
"This indirectly increases the cost of solving a case, a successfully solved burglary will probably cost the police department about two thousand dollars or so, and the cost of solving a homicide can sometimes run into tens of thousands of dollars. If you were to catch the whole city red-handed, City Hall could immediately declare bankruptcy," he said.
"That's why we're only going to selectively solve some cases, not because we don't want to, but because we can't afford to."
Ferrell was well aware of the stripes, after all, he was constantly striving to become the next mayor, and he usually paid attention to these things and kept them in mind.
In fact, the existence of the gangs in a way helped the police keep order in that society, at least the gangs and the police and even the major politicians had the same goal, which was stability, because as long as it was stable, they could get more money.
Moving on from this topic, Ferrell talked about Lynch's trip to Quriland this time: "First of all, on behalf of the mayor, I would like to congratulate you on the success of your debut in Quriland City ...".
The huge turnover has already validated the "policy" implemented by Mr. Landen, the Mayor of Sabine, as evidenced by the enthusiastic support of the people, and has also brought some attention from the State and the Progressive Party.
Any policy that improves people's lives and proves to be effective is now in the spotlight, as is the case with the credit facility that will begin in October.
There are some things that the governors can get involved in and take responsibility for, but there are some things that they can't, and that makes them selective, and they prefer the ones that they can take into their own hands.
In the first instance, the Governor's Office asked the Mayor of Sabine to send a report to the Governor's Office with information on the positive social impact of promoting the trade in used goods and improving the exchange of unused goods.
Last but not least, other states are gradually opening similar mobile auctions.
They may not know much about how to innovate and find key opportunities, but things like plagiarism are innate.
The mayor gained a lot of political power, and he probably didn't even think he was borrowing the scene of Lynch gathering so many people to publicize his public speech, but he ended up with a great bargain.
Of course, His Excellency the Mayor didn't want to forget Lynch's role in it, and to his credit, he even felt that he could bring the relationship between him and Lynch a little closer.
This time Ferrell came mainly for this matter, he needed Lynch to provide some broader visual thinking, to elaborate on the positive value of revitalizing second-hand unused goods for the current society from a higher and more macroscopic perspective.
There was another matter, by the way, and that was that the Tall and Thin Man's group hoped to put some pressure on Lynch through the Mayor's side to agree to lower the cash percentage of his shareholding.
They had already made enough compromises, at least they felt that the 25% cash share could already reflect their sincerity, so maybe by finding a middleman and giving each other a step up, this matter could be resolved.
"This is just me relaying opinions for some of them, it doesn't represent my position or the mayor's!" Ferrell's statement was cautious, basically telling Lynch that he could refuse and it wouldn't offend him or the mayor.
Right now, Lynch's value was clearly higher than some others, the mayor knew how to decide, he asked Ferrell to pass on these words, basically just pass them on, after all, the tall skinny guy and the others also contributed a lot of votes and political donations every year, as a direct beneficiary, he always had to maintain a neutral attitude.
Whether Lynch answered or not, that was Lynch's business, it was well known that the Baylor Federation was a free country, the sacred word of freedom was even written into the charter, no one could interfere with someone else's will to pursue freedom, and of course the mayor couldn't do the same.
Lynch nodded and smiled slightly, it looked like he was smiling, but Ferrell read rejection in his smile.
He was reluctant to talk much about something that had nothing to do with him, but there was a part of him that couldn't help himself, "Just my curiosity to discuss ...," he said rather abruptly, looking at Lynch who nodded, which allowed him to continue. "I heard that the price they offered wasn't too low, so why did you turn it down?"
Lynch looked at Ferrell, his calm gaze made Ferrell feel a little numbness in his coccyx and scalp, ready to miss the topic before Lynch spoke, "If someone thinks that you are very young, they are able to teach you a lesson from a certain aspect, for example, they think that you are too young and not qualified enough to contest the mayor's race and advise you to give up, do you think that you should compromise?"
"Even if they promise to support and elect you next time, but you have to bow down this time, are you willing to do that?"
"This is a war, Ferrell, and there is no peace in the world of businessmen; today I give in one step, tomorrow I give away all I have."
In the past few days, Neo had already applied to the state government for a relocation order for the Ristoan Group, which was planning to move to the Conservative Party's neighboring state, and the Conservative Party and even a certain member of the President's Cabinet had called to inquire about the matter, urging the governor not to make things difficult for President Neo and to complete the processes as quickly as possible.
Once these processes are completed, Neo can take his people and get the hell out of there, and he'll walk away quite lightly, but he'll leave a massive mess behind.
Aside from the fact that the unemployment rate is skyrocketing again, the people who are angry about losing their jobs could tear the mayor to shreds.
The governor had talked to the mayor privately about it, and it wasn't just a conflict between Sabine and Ristoan anymore, it was a conflict between the governor and others and Ristoan.
Neo had used some of his less friendly resources to pressure the Governor to move away as soon as possible, which made the Governor feel insulted.
He privately tells the mayor that even if Ristoan can't stay and will move away, they can't be allowed to leave so easily, and they must be made to pay for their behavior!
Compared to this matter, the mess between Lynch and the other businessmen about how much money to give for the investment up to this point, the mayor suddenly felt that his tone had been made a little low by them.
The movements on his fingers suddenly stopped, and Ferrell, who had been a little distracted, focused his attention again, and the mayor looked at him, "Tell them that we have relayed their words, and that this is the last time, and I don't want to hear any more follow-ups that have anything to do with these things."
Ferrell bowed his head slightly, "I know what to do!"