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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: oeoek on 23 Sep 2016, 01:08 ---Time for the third and final "hmmm"?
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And for Corpse Witch to have that wrench wrapped around her wrists behind her back followed by Bubbles tossing her over a shoulder and carrying her to Officer Lilac.
Is it cold in here?:
We know that The Pugnacious Peach cares about the well-being of the AIs and pointedly asked about it before starting work.
To us, then, it's offensive to have Detective Lilac lead with threats instead of appealing to Faye's compassion. She is definitely jumping to conclusions.
Jumping to conclusions like that has got to be very easy to do after even a little bit of experience doing police work. The detective has spent her career dealing with liars who don't care about the consequences of their actions. She has every reason to assume a priori that Faye doesn't have a better nature to appeal to.
Emperor Norton:
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--- Quote from: Tova on 23 Sep 2016, 02:25 ---TBH I had no idea that anyone had decided that she was "horrible."
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I personally think it has all to do with the issuing threats from a position of authority.
Anyone who does that is definitely someone not to be trusted or respected.
It may be a standard operating procedure in schlock TV detective dramas so much so that it is a meme and seems to be becoming normal for policing in the states and other just as unsavory jurisdictions it is normal but that is working using intimidation and threats thinking the target can't fight back - pretty much bullying at the adult level.
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The detective does not see what we see. Faye is a low level criminal in a criminal organization. She is being "threatened" because she made herself a target. And it isn't hard to threaten people with something that is true. Faye doesn't have a leg to stand on and they both know it.
Do you really think that police coercing criminals to turn on their higher ups is reprehensible? I consider it good policing.
sitnspin:
To be fair, I have little love for the police and little regard for the law in the instances when crimes should not be crimes.
Is it shitty to threaten low level criminals to get to bigger ones? Sometimes, sometimes not. In the case of victimless crimes, generally yes. Often low level criminals are people with little to no options. Threatening the disenfranchised to up your arrest numbers and prop up the prison industrial complex is pretty shitty, in my book. Especially considering how little police do when it comes to real crimes, in my experience.
Emperor Norton:
We still don't know what the detective's end goal is. Corpse Witch may very well have done/be doing some very reprehensible things that are not victimless. With the way Corpse Witch treats Bubbles, I think it is pretty obvious it isn't victimless just from that.
And honestly... While I believe there is a lot of things wrong with our prison system, a lot of things wrong with our law enforcement, I don't think the answer to it is "well, let criminals get away with it." If she has been skulking around for a while, she has probably been TRYING to put a case together against whoever her target is, and can't make anything stick.
If she is going after someone who is doing horrible things, a threat to someone lower on the totem poll is not that out of line. If it comes down to an innocent person being harmed, or a low level criminal being threatened (mind you, she hasn't even followed THROUGH on anything, just made a threat), I know which I'm choosing.
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