Old Godfather Ryan's angry roar made everyone feel a little terrified.
They could not quite understand why Old Godfather Ryan was so against calling the police.
A woman sobbed and asked him," Godfather, at a time like this... Do we have a better choice than calling the police?"
Old Godfather Ryan asked her with a gloomy face, "Has your husband never told you not to call the police for help even if he dies? This is the basic rule that every member of the group should know!"
The woman was very dejected to hear that, and she muttered softly, "He did say that before, b-but...”
Old Godfather Ryan continued coldly," There are no huts! You should know that the gangs have always been at odds with the police! There's no point in making a police report about gangs!"
"The Vancouver police have already blacklisted our gang members a long time ago. The police will not file a case even if anyone gets injured, dies, or went missing”
"We have already reached a tacit agreement with the police that the matters between gangs will be resolved in the world of mafias. You should know that we won’t call the police even if a member of our group is killed by an enemy gang member while selling drugs on the street!"
"In such an event, we’ll gather our brothers t o avenge him. We'll also offer compensation to their family so that his wife and children will not have to worry about their future life!
Having said that, he looked around at the crowd and coldly asked, "If your husband, son, and brother have been killed at this time, are you planning to have the police give you justice?”
"If the police catch them, they will sentence the murderer to life
imprisonment at most! Did you forget our tradition in Sicily? It's an eye for an eye, and blood for blood!"
Such events would never happen in Oskia. However, in places like Canada and the United States where the gangs were running rampant, the fact was just as mentioned by Old Godfather Ryan.
The police had formed a non-interference tacit understanding with the local gangs, and they would generally not intervene in gang matters as long as they did not cause too much of a problem.
After all, there were too many gangs. If the police began to interfere with gang affairs, i t would disturb the balance and lead to more issues. The other gangs would then have opinions on the police's interference and might cause more trouble.
"Now, the one who gave the orders hasn't come out to give a statement, so if we call the police now, no one will pay a single penny as compensation for your loss of family!"
"If we don't call the police, I'm sure the one who gave the order will give everyone a reasonable answer!"
"You have to understand that even if you can't find the proof of murder, at the very least, your family members wouldn't have died in vain!"
Everyone was almost instantly convinced b y Old Godfather Ryan’s advice. Indeed, calling the police would be an easy way out. However, if something happened to their family members, the police would not provide any help for them except for finding out the truth.
Many of them were old and weak, and these women and children could not feed themselves at all. The family would be in trouble without any compensation money and thus, they had to wait patiently for the sake of their money and future.
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Meanwhile, on the sea nearby Vancouver's water.
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