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WCDT Strips 3331-3335 (17 to 21 October 2016)
jheartney:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 17 Oct 2016, 03:43 --- Detective Lilac also can't even prove that Bubbles is the one who stacked the cans.
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It's not about proof, or even due process. Police in the U.S. have a good deal of latitude for harassing ordinary citizens for any reason. Perhaps you've heard, there's been some controversy about it lately. Getting on Lilac's bad side ought to be a bad move even without explicit legal action.
I'm starting to wonder if there's a pecking order among QC law enforcement, with the AI-focussed services at a lower social rung. This would explain why Lilac hid from Bubbles; she can't count on the same reflexive defense from her fellow officers that human LEOs get.
brasca:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Oct 2016, 00:13 ---I've got to say that Bubbles could not have made her life worse if she'd tried. I mean, in legal terms, Bubbles did nothing wrong. Did she try to trap a cop? No, Lilac hid and didn't identify herself, so any decent lawyer could claim that Bubbles literally had no idea that a cop was in the bottom trash can.
However, in the real world, Lilac must know why Bubbles did what she did. There are a thousand and one ways that a cop could make the life of someone like Bubbles very, very difficult. She doesn't even need to arrest her; just make sure uniforms know that she is a 'person of interest' and that her every public appearance needs to be scrutinised and doing even the simplest thing made amazingly inconvenient to the point where her friends start ostracising her as 'the cop magnet' and every shop knows that letting her come through the door inevitably leads to a raid a few days later.
Bubbles' actions were understandable but, ultimately, horribly self-destructive.
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Or maybe she's trying to provoke the officer into doing something rash. Bubbles is a soldier so she may be thinking strategically.
gopher:
Some great art.
In a world with A.I. and drones, following some-one seems pleasingly archaic.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Doc on 17 Oct 2016, 02:19 ---Don't bully the racoons! :x
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That's Cyril Sneer's job!
hedgie:
--- Quote from: gopher on 17 Oct 2016, 07:41 ---Some great art.
In a world with A.I. and drones, following some-one seems pleasingly archaic.
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You mean like the AI that is following them?
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