If you have never watched this movie, do so. It’s about a psychopath who terrorized an entire town, and what the town did when the law failed:

Yes, the book is much better and more detailed. What is interesting to me is that it reveals the very same dynamic at work over the entire US (and other countries) between the masses and the ruling elite. It also reveals the probable solution that may be taken at some point when the elite finally lay on the straw that will break the camel’s back.