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===Urom crime families=== | ===Urom crime families=== | ||
Crime is a major concern in many [[Urom]] communities. Lower-level organised crime is pervasive, with criminal groups engaging in the similar forms of illicit activity to rural organised crime elsewhere. In certain cities in [[Devahoma]] and the Southwest with large urbanised Urom populations, Urom crime families have formed on the same pattern as their ethnic Coscivian counterparts, with whom they compete for power and clout. | Crime is a major concern in many [[Urom]] communities. Lower-level organised crime is pervasive, with criminal groups engaging in the similar forms of illicit activity to rural organised crime elsewhere. In certain cities in [[Devahoma]] and the Southwest with large urbanised Urom populations, Urom crime families have formed on the same pattern as their ethnic Coscivian counterparts, with whom they compete for power and clout. | ||
===''Dağriostra''=== | |||
The major ethnic crime syndicates often have working relationships with government officials and political parties, especially on the provincial and local levels, and become involved in the political process in various ways, from campaign contributions to voter intimidation to assassinations. Collusion between public officials and organised crime, called ''dağriostra'' ("blighted politics"), is a persistent and widespread form of [[corruption in Kiravia]], and consequently a high-profile political issue. | |||
Kiravian officials have been known to engage the services of crime families to carry out government business by extralegal means. One notable recent example came to national attention in 2010 AD, when countyship officials in [[Kaviska]] were alleged to have hired jackhammer crews of mobsters and workers from mob-controlled labour unions to add extra potholes to tertiary highways in order to extract more funds from the State Highway Authority. There are numerous examples of the mob being called in to "apply pressure" on public-sector unions during strikes and contract renegotiations. | |||
==Street Gangs== | ==Street Gangs== | ||