Richard lights a cigarette and smiles to the crowd excited to deliver his speech

"Hello my monkey's."

Richard smiles evilly

"I come to you all today to deliver to deliver a story with a new approach to a controversial subject. I hope by now I have proved to be one of some sort of originality, one who tries to tackle subjects that normally aren't day by day conversations. However, when I do I normally try and give it a new approach to bring some kind of new light to the area's. So in a rare way of gathering info on the subject I want to address, instead of just pointing out my opinions I also wanted to get others opinions but in a honest and unbiased manner. I brain stormed on how exactly to get honest facts and honest opinions. Eventually I thought to myself, why not live the subject of interest? Act it out to an extent, gather others reactions, see how they make their choices when faced with the subject first hand."

Dick Grins

"I have addressed the issue before publicly, yet I didn't get quite the reaction I was looking for. So I decided to play the role myself. I addressed the signs of people going rogue once before. After the recent actions I wanted to know if there were any sign of possible rogues, and if there were, would people notice?"

Pulls out a list

Sign #1: Change of emotions, public displays of out of character statements or actions

Experiment: Speech Called "Dick gone mute" What other out of character statement would be better than the most active person on the streets stating he's going quiet due to frustration.

Results: A lot of wonderful comments came from some unexpected individuals, and I appreciate that. Got a good showing of concern.

Sign #2: Starting to complain about leadership.

Experiment: Began complaining about who's being authed and why they are being authed. Once that began, even more attention was being given.

Results:: Contacted by crew leader to ensure things were ok. Very well handled.

Sign #3: Giving away your funds.

Experiment: Transferred all my funds to crew leader.

Results: At this point, crew leader felt intervention was needed to be made and informed me higher authority had been notified about the situation. Once again, well handled. Instantly it made leadership aware there may be a threat if I was to suddenly snap.

"After I completed my experiments I gathered my own findings and came up with my own ratings on how well we take precautions from preventing such actions from happening. It's been said time and time again, that no matter WHAT you do, there is no way of preventing rogues from rising. Now, mind you, I totally am aware of the fact that you have your Bi-Polar mafioso, who in which I characterized, that just get a bite in the ass and snap. However, in my opinion, if I was a mafioso who had really snapped, and this was a real scenario and personally noticing how the situation was handled, there is a very high possibility I would have changed my mind. Leadership and friends alike did a wonderful job in supporting me morally, and making attempts to motivate. Something that is a positive in any situation such as this."

"You can ask anyone within New York's leadership if they were made aware of this little experiment, and I promise you they would all say no. I may have even hurt some feelings in the process, but real journalism is true journalism. To me had I portrayed someone who was on the brink of snapping, but just not to the fullest, people may have just thought I was having a bad day. Yet I drew legitimate worries, in which I must apologize to those who were really bothered by it. I hope you can see my intentions."

Dick hit's his blunt once again

"Not only was everyone comforting, but I have full trust now that if anything close to this was to happen again, it would be eliminated with force to prevent anything from occurring. There was a time in this experiment that I had to tell myself, 'Alright Dick, don't push it too much.' I really was concerned to hear whispers as shots rang through the evening. Although maybe that means I got the real feel, and honestly, if I at all feared for my life, then it was handled exactly how it should have been handled. What have I learned personally from this? I have more friends than I thought that's for sure, and I thank you all for that. It was surely something new for me to conduct an experiment to this magnitude, but it surely answered a lot of my questions."

Richard puts his blunt out

"I would like to hear everyone's opinion on the experiment itself, and the results. Whether you wish I addressed more issues, or answered more questions please feel free to debate. I hope you all find this somewhat informative."

For what it's worth

How well could current structure detect rogue's and possibly prevent action from occurring IF signs are made?

Scale 1- 10 1 being garbage - 10 being bullet proof

Big Daddy Dick gives it a 7 - Handled great but always room for improvement.

Who?

Listens to the experiments taken place and the results

"A 7? Thats all! Come on mafiosi, we need to be able to detect even faster than that!"

Shakes his head and smokes a cigar

To be perfectly honest, I don't think a real rogue would be nearly this predictable, so I do not think that this was an accurate representation of what their behaviors would be.

Publically displaying discontent?  Trashing crew leaders?  This RARELY happens at all, and, when it does, it's likely confronted immediately.

Transferring all money to their crew leader?  Would pretty much make "going rogue" impossible, wouldn't it?  A rogue woul stop caring about their family, and want/need to keep all of their money for themself.

I'm not really sure what percentage of rogues plan it out, and what percentage do it spur of the moment, but, either way, I don't really see them doing any of this stuff, since "going rogue" is an incredibly hush-hush activity.  If anything, I would suspect that they would purposely avoid any change in behavior, much like any family does while planning a attack.

But who knows how the mind of a rogue works, really.  I'd imagine that they are spurred by all sorts of motivations.

"A rogue woul stop caring about their family, and want/need to keep all of their money for themself."

You dont tend to see many rich rogues at their time of death, which is the prelude to the fact they tend to give it to someone they trust, so as their children may receive it upon their death. Granted, unless this person is their leader its a very unlikely situation. Also, I dont agree with the common attitude that a rogue doesn't care for their family, it really all depends on the reasons for one going rogue, but thats for another time and place.

Dick. I'm pleased to hear this was an experiment, though I hadn't thought you were on the verge of snapping, I had been concerned that you had given up on these quiet streets and I am pleased to see thats not the case.

Glad to see you haven't gone limp. :o)

Sal pats Richard on the ass in passing.

A rather intelligent, well devised esperiment which i found very interesting. Howver the best news of all is Dick is still soldiering on! Keep up the awesome street speeches.

One of the things that I think is missed is the timing of all this. Of course when he lists the things he did here on the streets it is easy to say anyone would recognize those signs. This listing makes it seem way to easy to recognize a possible rogue if you were a leader. The time span of the events he list here happened over a period of days with a lot more sprinkled in. He took on a whole persona and although they included the items mentioned here I am sure there was much more involved to set the stage to what you are reading.

I also believe he rightly gives it a seven based on the criteria he used in this little experiment. Also the fact that there are numerous ways a person would act if he were planning or not planning on abandoning his Family. I myself, who just recently brought some new relatives into this land said immediately to them this man is going rogue after seeing his speech about becoming a mute and proceeded to explain the concept to them. I think he sacrificed less noticeable signs of a rogue for the sake of his test.

The importance here is that he found that at least the leaders he has contact with handled it properly. It should give us all somewhat relief that they didn't ignore these signs or didn't recognize just what Dick was representing. That would of been a bigger revelation.

I found the experiment very insightful when put into context.

walks in an listens to Dick's story about the experiment
very interesting, too bad though I am always fast asleep when these rogues come up  :/

I've only seen one of two of these rogues around the past few months, which kinda says I am hardly around here anyways. But from what I have seen from the leaders in the cities, the way they all handled the situations, I'd give them an 8! there's always room for improvement and some will always find ways to work around the rules and such ;-)

Glances at Dick

Nice experiment you did hun. Glad you're back on the streets with your stories!

Blinks and walks out again, leaving all the men around staring at her stunning appearance