Texas City question

[Nuclear Fridge Magnet]

How corrupt are the Judges of Texas City? How far does the rot spread? Preacher Cain was from TC, and he came in for heavy trouble from the ‘Deputy Chief Judge’s office’.

I’ve lost (or given away) most of my 2000AD/ Megazine collection, so I can’t quite remember the details. For example, when Joe Dredd reaches Texas City in the Judge Child quest, he finds the TC Judges marching the mutants out of the city. Weren’t they taken out and shot, instead of the official version of ‘resettlement’?

If anyone can give me a quick overview, even a few dates, that would be great!

 

[havercake lad]

Potentially it might have changed after Saul Cane killed off his protagonist,
the conniving bad ass DCJ Wotan. I made a few notes on TC which I can try locate this week.

 

[havercake lad]

'The City that Breeds Big Men'
A gun culture was thriving. Dredd was easily able to obtain a debt collectors license and buy enough munitions from a retailer to go and shoot up and round up perps when he was stymied as operating as a Judge in T.C.
Violent games of skill or chance appear legal.
Legal penalties are probably harsh, certainly in the outlands , where cattle theft is , apparantly, a hanging crime.
Possibly Texas Judges are waged.. if a judge betting a weeks pay wasn't a figure of speech (I can't imagine them having to be celebate neither, a future Chief Judge seems to have a family and a daughter if Red Razors is canon material.)
The 2102 expulsions of mutants to 'Mutieville' didn't result in a pogrom. Though mutants seem to have little legal status. Possibly some are hunted for sport, some heads feature as trophies on DCJ Honus's office wall. 'Night Riders' are groups of TC judge cadets who ride out with senior judges and get in some combat climatization /bonding by killing mutants they bump into in a KKK fashion.
Some mutants seem , at least for a time, to be able to get employment as scouts in the 'Buffalo Soldier' mutie irregulars.
All mutants employed by TC need work permits.
Judge Luther had a drive to supposedly stamp out corruption, but this was merely to remove his rivals, including DCJ Honus ( whose post he takes.)
Noteworthy is the TC Judges unoffical motto ' Aim low and shoot dirty'.
Eventually I'll get complete notes and dates onto a proper file.

 

[Nuclear Fridge Magnet]

Thanks, havercake. This gives me a starting point for a plot I have in mind regarding a TC corporation's "hostile takeover" tactics -- and I want to imply that said company has high-level help in the TC Judge force.