New Gods of North America.

Chapter 214 Framed
In the United States these days, sweets without any foreign smell are still considered a luxury.
Winchester restaurants have local apple pies, which are limited in quantity and generous in sugar, but not as sweet as some North American countries in modern society.

So the agents all enjoyed the meal.

Unfortunately, the taste of ordinary people today has not yet been domesticated by the sugar industry.

Therefore, people’s impression of apple pie is roughly like this:

The first meal was "delicious", the second was "just so-so".
By the third meal, even Emma, who prefers sweeter things, would no longer finish a whole piece of apple pie in one go.

So the detective agency rested for two days, packed some long-lasting dry food and food, estimating that it would be enough to last for ten days or so, and then started to head into the mountains, heading towards the steam train line.

With the experience in the west, in order to adapt to the "mountainous" or even "high mountain" terrain,

The carriages are now all in the form of "four-wheel drive" or "two-wheel drive" in order to ensure that each person has at least one horse, so that they can escape when necessary, or change horses to chase.

Unfortunately, bolt-action rifles are hard to buy in America. It is said that the one Inissa had was an experimental model made by a master from some craftsman's association.
Otherwise, Wayne would like to make a batch of them and put them in the detective agency so that the agents can exchange them for contributions.

Wanted warrants these days are mainly issued by the state governments of each state after being compiled. In addition, some local organizations or wealthy people offer rewards and then entrust authorized agencies to issue them.

Therefore, many wanted warrants have a "scope" problem.

Usually, a state's wanted warrant is mostly sent to surrounding states and a few states where the criminal may flee, and will not be "broadcast" throughout the federation.

For example, a wanted criminal who committed a crime on the East Coast of the South would not be sent to the West for no apparent reason, and vice versa, unless it is found that the criminal was born in a certain place or lived there for a period of time.

Wayne and his team have also collected some wanted warrants from the Winchester Police Department over the past two days, and compared them with the wanted warrants they collected in Richmond and Georgeburg.
Remove some duplicates and add some new ones.

Many agents had done similar things before and were familiar with them, so Wayne also intended to let them participate in the leadership of this part of the affairs.

After all, this place is still a bit far from Georgeburg, and Wayne doesn't want to have to travel back and forth between the two places all the time.

It would be best to clean up this area first, and then leave some agents to take turns. Unless a large gang or powerful guys appear later, try to solve it by yourself.

For this purpose, Wayne introduced some "big data" analysis methods to the agents.

For example, record all the steam train robbery cases that have occurred on this line, and then classify them into categories, such as which sections of the line are high-incidence areas, how often cases occur on average, how often major cases occur, etc.

For some relatively active gangs, you can also find problems from the updates of their wanted posters.
For example, by counting the time points when they commit crimes, we can roughly get their cycle from robbery to selling stolen goods to being "hungry" again, and wait for them in advance.
We can also roughly outline the possible range of their base by working backwards in time.

Wayne and his friends are also relatively simple and honest.
Now that the main force has arrived, let’s try to start with the larger and more active gangs.

As for those who commit a few crimes and then flee, they do not pose much of a subsequent threat to the steam train line, and it is too difficult to track them down. That is a problem that regular law enforcement agencies should worry about.

We can only "accept those who come and not keep those who leave". ...

Snakes have their own paths, rats have their own paths,
The group walked northwest and arrived at a high-incidence section of the road that the detective agency had marked on the map, and then began to search for routes in the area.

Although many people think that the so-called "desperadoes" lead an exciting and thrilling life, they are outlaws wherever they go.

But in the territory of the Commonwealth of America, most of the killing and looting by the desperadoes are still "work", and their starting point is probably something like "work for a few years, save up some money, and then move to another place to live a stable life."

Just like many once brutal pirates, when they finally come ashore, they will choose to become law-abiding citizens.

Only those who know that they can no longer reach the shore can truly have such a "wonderful life".

The detective agency's focus at this time was also on the location between the state border and the steam train line.

"Generally speaking, some large gang bases are usually located near state borders, and relatively active gangs usually need some 'supporting facilities'.

“For example, in addition to a ‘base’ where they can escape relatively easily and are not easily discovered, they often have a relatively familiar ‘hunting ground’ and a ‘resting area’ where they can sell stolen goods and relax during their active periods.

"Assuming that the route we are on now is the 'hunting ground' of a certain gang, then the small town in the adjacent state border on the map should be the 'resting area' where they will not commit crimes. So we can probably infer the opposite now. As long as we connect the nearest towns in the adjacent state and this place, the area drawn by the frame is the most likely place for their base to appear."

After Wayne reached a consensus with Inissa and Lina, he was holding a meeting with the agents on the flat ground beside a stream.

Since the detectives learned from the course that Wayne could roughly determine the time of death based on the state of the corpse, and even identify the criminal through the so-called "fingerprints" and "blood types",
Gradually, they developed unrealistic illusions about the partners of the detective agency, thinking that these bosses might be very "professional" and "difficult to mess with."

——In general law enforcement agencies, criminals only need to run a little further away, change their names and some physical features, and they may have a chance to escape capture and live the rest of their lives in peace.

For most people, it was the first time that someone could say with such confidence that "as long as you leave evidence of a crime once, you can pursue it for your entire life and always be able to confirm its identity."

Even the detective agency has done a small experiment, and it is true that no two fingerprints are exactly the same. There is no need to use extraordinary abilities to detect them.

If they get ruthless, they might be more terrifying than the police in other places.

Even the chief of police in Georgeburg thought that what Wayne said made sense, which meant that police in other places might agree with their statement.

This is just like the legendary sword. If you are really targeted, it might hang above your head for the rest of your life, and you never know when it will fall down.

Therefore, the agents now firmly believed in some speculations that sounded more "ordinary" and "normal".

Everyone has developed Lina's recent little habit of taking out paper and pen at any time.

(End of this chapter)