What you described about someone taking on the police department kinda happened about 11 years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt
I remember the manhunt briefly making the news, but I don’t remember them covering his motivations, just his actions.
I’m out of the loop personally but it wouldn’t surprise me given how many things we’ve seen make unexpected comebacks.
Leaving games for others cause I have plenty to saturate my time right now, but thank you very much for being a generous beacon in our fledging community!
In my experience/from what I’ve witnessed, FOMO is a pretty strong driving force, especially among younger people.
When I explicitly started avoid ads and things marketing stuff to buy at me, my financial situation started improving.
Just my 2 cents, YMMV
I would imagine it’s a multi-part solution:
You either are jumped in and prove yourself to be tough enough to roll with them, or you can’t tough it out but they’ve already beat you to a pulp once so ideally they’ve made their point and intimidated you out of speaking against them/talking to cops or trying out for rivals.
Full disclosure: I don’t have experience in this and am mostly speculating.