Chapter 1218: The Chief of Police's Request for Help

"I'm leaving, see you tonight." Li Zitao kissed his wife, took the coat from Dan's hand, hung it on his arm, and prepared to leave.

"Sir, someone is coming." Farrell approached quickly, put his hand over his mouth and said softly, "It's the director, James Franks."

"Oh?" Looking at his wife unexpectedly, Li Zitao returned the coat to Dan, and said as he walked, "Please invite him to the reception room."

"James, what made you come here?" Li Zitao was really surprised to see James.

The police system has been restructured, and he should now be called the 'Chief of Police,' the boss of all New York City police.

"Since you moved to New York, I have never visited." James put the gift on the table, a bottle of red wine in simple packaging.

"From Bordeaux." James didn't mention the price. Being from Bordeaux is already worth a lot to him. What's more, 0 is no different to the other party.

James is a good policeman. He has been a policeman for 24 years. He is a tough western cowboy, and he is also a representative of the old-school style with a smooth surface but stubborn stubbornness.

"Thank you, no offense intended, but this is too precious to you, can I return it?" Li Zitao picked up the red wine and looked at it.

James' job is not very high, and he has to support 4 children. His burden is very heavy. A bottle of red wine for $97 is too extravagant for him.

"It was bought with your money...a special bonus." James smiled, pointing at the red wine.

The special bonus, a benefit of the police union, was jointly established by Mary and several philanthropic socialites from the Upper East and West Sides.

Hearing what he said, Li Zitao handed the wine to Dan, beckoned him to put it away, then took out a cigar and handed it to him, saying, "Tell me about your reason for coming!"

"I'm here to ask for help." James put the cigar in front of his nose and sniffed it, then twirled it in his mouth before pulling out the incense stick and lighting it.

"Are you in trouble? The new mayor wants to replace him with his own people?" As the newly promoted police chief, Li Zitao couldn't figure out what else he needed to ask for help other than his own problems.

"Lower East Side, we want to fix this mess."

"We? Who are we?"

"City Hall, the police, the ADA are all ready."

Hearing what he said, Li Zitao said in surprise: "That's fine. Is there anyone in this city who can stop the actions of the city's largest armed gang? Just kidding."

"Charlie, the situation in the Lower East Side is very complicated. If Hell's Kitchen was a paradise for villains and jerks, the Lower East Side is the cradle of crime.

The community there is full of crime families and they don't give the police any cooperation or intelligence, let alone cooperation. After my men went in, only wine bottles and rotten vegetable leaves were thrown out of the window, and we couldn't even find anyone to arrest. Because their relatives, godparents, frats would fill the corridors and no one could get through. "

"Don't tell me, you need to follow the rules when dealing with them." The police are very violent these days. It is normal to use small tricks, batons and non-lethal attacks, to find reasons to bring people back to the police station, and to come out with bruises on their faces.

To sue or report, no one will listen to their stories, they will just laugh and say, "Call me when someone dies."

Otherwise, how will the antagonism between the bottom society and the police come about in the future? A slap can't be slapped.

"what do I do,

Put tens of thousands of people in jail and turn the Lower East Side into a ghost town? "James is hard to do, otherwise he wouldn't be sitting here.

The police force in his hands is limited, and the security of the whole of New York needs the police to maintain, especially the middle and upper-class communities. It is necessary to ensure that sufficient police force stays in these places. Even if nothing happened, he couldn't transfer everyone away.

Otherwise, he will step down that day, and the mayor and the entire judiciary will be in trouble. No one would underestimate the influence of New York's elite.

"What do you want to do, make them shut up?" Li Zitao thought that he thought of himself too highly.

"I want the help of S.H.I.E.L.D." James explained his purpose.

"Are you sure?" No matter how you say it, Secret Service is a private company, and the judiciary is independent. Doing so can easily attract attacks for him and the government.

"I'm sure." After a moment of silence, James nodded; "This is a joint operation. I need your people to obey the command, and the most important thing is restraint."

"I'm not sure if they can do it, if someone keeps the bottle on their head, I think they will go berserk."

Special guards are not good people. On the surface, the purpose of their training is to 'protect,' but in fact they are more inclined to kill.

Because the situation is like this, the nature of their work determines the degree of danger, and it is their right to fight back when they encounter danger.

Compared with the police, their methods are more extreme and direct, and it is almost instinctive to shoot back.

Especially for those elites who came back from the battlefield, their skills are excellent, but their nerves are very fragile, and a small stimulus may cause a chain reaction.

The worst-case scenario is that someone shoots suddenly, chaos ensues, a massive gunfight ensues, and the operation would be a 'news hit. '

The government and the entire judiciary will be held accountable, and James is risking too much.

"I know that there are a group of veterans from the National Guard who have just joined, and I want them." It seems that James came prepared.

The New York police had been preparing for this matter for half a year, but James found that they were never fully prepared because they did not have enough strength to implement the plan.

The city hall will not give them a higher budget, James went around for alms, and got very little "charity," and New York's police force is still seriously insufficient.

If they want to rely on the power of the police to knock down the downtown area, at least not to let the family crime here continue to increase, the New York police can't wait any longer.

The city hall has plans to join forces with police forces in other cities to do this, but no one knows how long it will take, maybe the current mayor will not be able to wait until the end of his term.

Therefore, James does not want to wait any longer, he wants to find external forces to break the situation.

And the only person he could think of, who had the power to solve this matter, was the man sitting opposite him, who held the world's largest private armed organization in his hands.

Even if you don't want to admit it, it's true that S.H.I.E.L.D. has enough power to launch a campaign against any country.

And the advanced weapons provided by the arms organization under his name can make this battle expand infinitely. This is a fact that everyone knows but no one wants to mention.

With the help of S.H.I.E.L.D., he and the government's current plight can be easily resolved. But James must grasp the speed inside.

Had there been a chaotic shootout, it would have been a terrible tragedy. Whether it's a shootout or an arrest, it has to happen under tenable circumstances.