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Zvi Mowshowitz had a post about the legal systems of John Wick in which he says that the "legal"/political background of the films (and therefore the types of story that get told) is what changes from episode to episode. [Basically, from an "honorable" criminal organisation where the morality is Lawful Evil, the Continental Hotel is sacrosanct, and markers are honoured, to outlaw life as opponents of a lawless shadowy conspiracy which controls the High Table and includes the man who finds Wick in the desert, to something vaguely reminiscent of feudalism by the fourth film].
The situation seemed to have changed from the Cops being aware that the assassin underworld exists and willingly staying hands off (Jimmy the cop asking John if he's working again), to one where the Cops are functionally powerless since the assassins operate an international network with friends in high places.
Then the "High Table" seems to be some absurdly powerful entity that still operates outside the law, but its not clear exactly how powerful (dropping whole busses full of armored spec ops at the Continental is a clue), to, yeah, seemingly being a world power of some kind.
My 'headcanon' as far as that goes is that national governments accept their existence and use them as a nonmilitary method of intervention and conflict resolution, and this is what sustains the overall assassin economy (which otherwise barely makes any sense), as long as the High Table can keep collateral damage to a minimum.
Hence why John repeatedly going ham at dance parties/nightclubs becomes a real problem.
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