Editing Freedom City Geography (section)

== Crime ==


It is an unfortunate truth that Freedom City is crime ridden despite it being the city of tomorrow.  Huge numbers of criminals are generated from the poorer districts of the city and the fact that Arch-Villain August Roman (former enemy of the '''Centurion''') once ran the world spanning '''Circuits Maximus''' from the city.  Thus, there are a substantial disproportionate number of gangsters in Freedom City in addition to regular street crime.  The current leader of the Underworld is "Big Al" Driogano but most simply view him as holding the place for August Roman (in truth he's little more than front man for the world spanning Illuminati-like '''Labyrinth''' that has taken over most of the Circuit Maximus' businesses).


Freedom City criminals tend to be decidedly '''not''' misunderstood victims of society and pretty much brutal thugs.  The city's Underworld encourages professional criminals with no loyalty to their communities and a brutal willingness to do whatever they want.  Freedom City's prisons are clogged up, but its not with drug users or victims of racism.  Sadly, only a few superheroes focus on the extensive crime problem.


Mentioning crime in Freeport without mentioning Super-Villains would be like mentioning Chicago gangsters without mentioning Al Capone.  Super human criminals are drawn to Freedom City out of the belief there's easy money to be made (true) and that they can win a reputation for themselves by defeating one of the world's superheroes (False- This usually just lands the amateurs in the slammer).  The most successful group of villains is the '''Crime League''' that have conducted numerous world-spanning plots over the past couple of decades that no one has really been able to stop permanently.  Thankfully, none of them have shown much inclination to engage in wholesale murder.
 

Disturbingly, a group called '''The Foundry''' has recently shown up in Underworld rumors.  Apparently, its a high technology criminal gang that has been providing even low level crooks in Freeport with cutting edge energy weaponry and genetic techniques to turn even two time losers into super humans.