Police raids close down the most notorious criminal establishments.
Yannick, like Lily, insists the overtly criminal establishments that hire underage or trafficked women represent a tiny percentage of the market.
The Detroit political and criminal justice establishment has vowed to keep Rick Wershe in prison until he dies for telling the FBI the truth about some of their own.
But what's beyond debate is the enduring appeal of the daring criminal challenging the establishment with criminal endeavour.
This has led to a new culture of smaller gangs and opportunistic criminals threatening the establishment.
That said, there are two potential developments to monitor that would change the outlook: a sudden loosening of requirements for language and criminal background, and the establishment of large units heavily (or almost entirely) populated by foreign volunteers.
The late-September disappearance, and likely massacre, of forty-three students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has stripped bare the symbiosis between Mexico's political establishment and its criminal underworld.
And it is a credit to the filmmakers that a movie dedicated to a fearless, stubborn man's campaign against the medical establishment and the criminal justice system doesn't overly romanticize his struggle or exonerate him from blame.
The murder rate had risen to 1,896 killings a year; 3,254 rapes would be reported in the five boroughs, but only one captured the city's extended attention and later exposed bias in its criminal justice system and media establishment.
Considerable progress has been made over the last decade with the establishment of international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, an agreement to establish a permanent International Criminal Court and the indictments of General Pinochet and Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia.
