Gets to extract the cash from the population:
Hospitals in Haiti are close to collapse because criminal gangs have blockaded one of the country’s major fuel terminals, demanding $50m to let it reopen.
Unable to rely on Haiti’s electrical grid, hospital use diesel-powered generators. The fuel shortage has forced them to shut many of their wards, turn away patients and suspend the already limited Covid vaccination programme.
As with Mancur Olson some gangs are better than others. And vicious bloody slaughter is sometimes the correct reaction to certain gangs attempting the cash extraction.
It is the correct response to any gang attempting cash extraction.
When we’ve solved it here we can worry about Haiti, where problems accumulate and never go away. Just like here.
There’s a piece in the NYT about how American police forces are stationary bandits, extracting excessive fines from passing motorists (e.g. $800 for a broken number plate light). A fine example of Olson’s theory.
“The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/police-ticket-quotas-money-funding.html
I’m thinking of hanging the lot. But no doubt I’ve read too many Sanders of the River stories.
Haiti. As a Dominicana girl once told me, “They’re all animals over there”
BiS
Indeed, the place is a toxic mess of French and blacks. Nothing can ever be done about it.
It is the correct response to any gang attempting cash extraction.
See also Insulate Britain, and any other gang using force to benefit themselves.
Vicious Bloody Slaughter, indeed.
Unfortunately, the gangs can usefully chant “You and whose Army?”, ‘cos there isn’t one.
@Andrew M I believe they are called Speed trap Towns
Also a good song of that title by Jason Issbell
“Was a tough state trooper til’ a decade back
When that girl who wasn’t momma caused his heart attack
He didn’t care about us when he was walkin around
Just pullin’ women over in a speed trap town”
“Indeed, the place is a toxic mess of French and blacks.”
Well the chica herself was a well dark mulata. Curly haired version. So I’d go with the French element being predominant.