At the end of Red Harvest, the Op declares that Personville
is so hopelessly corrupt that the only viable option is to
request national guard troops from the governor and put the
town under martial law while rebuilding the whole
legal/justice system from scratch. Has something like that
ever actually happened to a US city, specifically due to
corruption? What's the largest-scale state or federal
intervention into local corruption on record, and what came
of it? Thanks!
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