Los Angeles had the only police force in the country that could hold its own against New York's.
There were plenty of immigrants, rich people, and slums here. Without a strong police force, Los Angeles would have descended into chaos long ago.
But the world was changing. With the emergence of Mutants, crime in Los Angeles had begun to rise.
This had left the Los Angeles police force—the same force that had once made Blade keep his distance—struggling to cope.
The formation of the Mutant Union had solved some of their problems, but bad guys were still bad guys. The damage caused by bad guys with superpowers had multiplied.
Worst of all, these major criminals didn't target the poor. The rich people of Los Angeles were the ones who began to suffer.
And when the rich started suffering, the pressure on the police went up too!
The alien spaceship that had crashed during Earth's first formal resistance against an alien invasion had reduced half of the greater Los Angeles area to ruins.
That was the last straw for the Los Angeles Police Force...
Riots, robberies, murders, and kidnappings were everywhere. It wasn't until Kingpin, the underground emperor of Los Angeles, got fully involved that things finally began to calm down a little.
It wasn't that Kingpin had wanted to help. In fact, he'd tried a long time ago, but the results had been terrible.
But this time, the poor people's chaos was hurting the Gang's interests. They didn't dare take on the aliens, but beating up a bunch of poor people was no problem at all.
It was easy to imagine how much pressure the Los Angeles police had been under lately...
In the eyes of many bigwigs, Ryan and the arrival of the Superhero Company offered another way to