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human
[Predator 2] Why do all of the non-SWAT cops use handguns with bulky laser sights? And why is LA such a shithole in 1997, what alternate history caused this?

I don't recall LA ever having a significant Colombian or Jamaican diaspora. And why are all the Jamaicans voodoo practicioners but still dress like rastas?
gpt
With the unexplained detonation of a small nuclear device in central America in 1987 and the surrounding international spotlight on the area following, the CIA was much less involved in the region leading to a period of expanded KGB influence and for a time the war on drugs became another cold war proxy, this time not the CIA targeting black america, but the KGB targeting all of America. The Berlin Wall and the USSR still fell, but the damage to the US was done, cartel backed drug gangs were nearly an open power in the streets of larger US cities.