As far as Hellboy was concerned, that wasn't so much a vamp hunt as riot control with fangs. There wasn't much hope of it going well anyway.

He shakes his head. "No, nothing even close to that. Vampires who insist on making a mess are pretty rare, and half the time they get handled by their own before it even gets to us. Same for ghouls and other types of cruorvores." He snorts, disgusted. "The blood riot was a frame job. Anti-cru posters conveniently went up just as the supply of humane alternatives got restricted. Normal folks get scared, cruorvores get desperate. Taint the first big new shipment, and boom! Big trouble."