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human
[Dredd 3D] Why are the only law enforcement officers brutal judges? Do Hab-blocks have meter maids, neighborhood watch or officers?

Dredd himself admits that judges can only respond to 1% of crimes. In peach trees, they havent seen a judge in years.

For petty crime, such as vandalism, minor theft, parking violations etc, do the citizens of peach trees have a local security detail? The have an administration that runs the utilities and emergency services (war lockdown etc) surely they normally would have some sort of security.


Maybe one reason gangs like MaMa rise is because she provides law and order herself.
gpt
Well I'll have to refer to the 2000 AD Judge Dredd in order to answer this.

You first have to look at the scale of the setting. Megacity One houses roughly 800 million people in what is now the Eastern United States. This doesn't sound too bad until you consider the actual living area is about half that. The rest is used for other essentials like factories, roads, iso-cubes, ect. So the population density is higher than Delhi's.

For petty crimes, an honest Judge will send you to an Iso-cube for a few days or weeks. A corrupt or simply brutal judge will shoot you on the spot. If no Judge is around, then it's up the civilians; mob rule. And that can go anywhere.

For administration, megablocks like Peach-Trees were designed to be self-sufficient and independent establishments. It's more accurate to call them small towns than blocks. The only city wide security is a less-than-stellar monitoring system. Which can potentially track every person in the city but there's nowhere near enough people to for this to be feasible.

MaMa came to power because she killed everyone to challenged her. She offered nothing.