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In Bougou Stray Dogs, it seems the organisations need a licence to operate
with gifted people using their gifts at work. (Cant remember the exact licence
name)

At some point in Season 2,

> The government wants to protect their now ex-double-agent Ango from the Port
> Mafia...

and the Port Mafia uses that opportunity to get a licence from the Government

This makes no sense to me. Why would a criminal organisation like the mafia
want a licence to operate legally? Criminal organisations usually don't care
if things are done legally or not.


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Why does the Port Mafia need a licence?


Typically, organisations like the Port Mafia are pretty good at keeping their
illegal dealings at arms length so that it's hard for law enforcement to catch
them doing anything. It may be all but public knowledge that they're doing all
those things, but they try to leave as little evidence as possible (and have a
few lawyers and other legal types in their pockets to help deal with the few
bits that get away from them).

As such, often the law enforcement will look for _any_ excuse to prosecute
them, and use that as a proxy for all the stuff they can't actually be caught
doing. For example, notorious gangster Al Capone was arrested for tax evasion.

So prior to getting the licence, presumably there were police detectives or
the like keeping an eye on known Port Mafia members hoping that they'd see, I
don't know, Akutagawa using Rashoumon to destroy a stray piece of garbage,
then take him in on a charge of "Unlicenced use of ability on public
property". With the licence, though, the actions of the Port Mafia are halfway
legitimised by the government, and it becomes that much harder to take action
against them.


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