Editing The Folk (section)

==Modus operandi==
The Folk is a rare criminal organization that predated [[Cape|capes]] and still functions in more or less the same fashion after they appeared.<ref name="25.3 e1"/> Unlike others that were usurped.<ref name=27.3>Galvanate appeared.  He’d been one of a number of players that had supplanted the local organized crime in the early-to-mid-nineties.  A mafia enforcer with powers who had decided he had what it took to be a boss.  He’d done well, rendering entire squads of his soldiers effectively invincible, simultaneously capable of electrocuting someone to death with a touch. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref>

The Folk are middle men, or professional<ref name="25.3 e2" /> guarantors that let the criminal economy of [[Chicago]] functions well and consistently without the hassle of rivalries getting in the way. To them superheroes are obstacles to work around instead of enemies to fight.