In a city where heavily mechanized business and industry controls the economy 
(and were largely responsible for the 88% unemployment rate) robots were too 
useful to get rid of despite Call-Me-Kenneth's insurrection.  But the Robot 
Wars left psychic scars on Mega City One and a lot of anti robot sentiment.  
Vigilante groups dedicated to keeping the robots in their place sprang up and 
it was a bad idea for a citizen to get between them and their target.  While 
most citizens didn't actively support the extremists there was a lot of 
passive support among the citizenry.  As Dredd discovered in Prog 29 when
investigate the death of a citizen and his robot at the hands of the Neon
Knights.  Script by Pat Mills, art by Ian Gibson.
 


Dredd's meditations in the Judge Memorial to the fallen is interrupted when
he spots the rally by Walter's executioners-to-be and goes to investigate.



Dredd wasn't trying to escape.  He needed to get to his lawmaster so he could 
take on the entire Klan.  After singlehandedly wiping out most of the Neon 
Knights and uncovering their leader's dark secret Dredd has pretty well broken 
the Knights spirit as we see in the conclusion.                              

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