12th arrest | video | while were at it, let's be honest

[cuffyoutwice]

This is Det-- Acting Chief Kate Beckett speaking on behalf of the police department. On the afternoon of March 16, Mr. Harold Saxon, alias The Master, was arrested on charges of murder

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[lady_wandering]

Are there plans in place to have the Master under surveillance?

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[cuffyoutwice]

We'll put what manpower we have toward it. His network posts will be watched but unfortunately I assume we're not going to find anything there. Do you have any suggestions?

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[lady_wandering]

Many, but if he's regained his full faculties, it's highly likely that any surveillance system I devise will be detected.

My real fear is that the friends he has made will see this as a vindication of his innocence. I worry for them.

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[cuffyoutwice]

Maybe we should anyway. Let him know we're not about to let this go.

I worry for the City. I'm not sure what we could have done had we had enough evidence to prosecute. There's no legal system, and we don't have the equipment to hold him anyway.

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[lady_wandering]

Perhaps we should work on that in preparation for when we do have enough evidence to prosecute.

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[cuffyoutwice]

I think it would be wise to start paying more attention to the way in which we handle future cases, yes.

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[lady_wandering]

Not just how we handle them during investigation, we need some sort of legal system in place. All the procedure in the City won't be of use if we have no recourse one the perpetrators are caught.

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[cuffyoutwice]

I agree entirely, but I'm not sure anyone would want the police directly involved with founding a legal system, especially in our meek state as it is. I can enforce what rules I bring with me as are established where I come from, but beyond that it's a lot of new territory for me.

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[lady_wandering]

If not the police than who?

With all due respect, where else in the City are there those with the day-to-day experience with the law? To my knowledge, there's only one man, recently arrived, that has any legal expertise outside of law enforcement and it's hardly fair to as one so recently arrived to consider the implications of curses, non-humans, and other beings.

If it's a matter of the citizens not having a say, invite them to help with the proposal of the laws and be sure and put the final matter to a vote. That is how most humans do it, isn't it?

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[cuffyoutwice]

The people, of course. The police enforce the law, we don't create it; for a good reason. We're too close, our people are in the path of death every single day and it complicates matters for us. If all cops had it their way, it'd be all right to shoot first and ask questions later.

We'd always be happy to advise and help, sure. But the law needs to be a separate entity from the people who are on the streets enforcing it, to keep from corruption and even the accusation of it. It's not so much a matter of the people having as say, they would rise up and do that at any time they want. But there's only so much we can do and we're straining under the little we're balancing even now.

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[lady_wandering]

But in no one in the citizenry takes control... we're to let anarchy continue to reign?

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[cuffyoutwice]

I'm not sure what solution I can give other than doing what I know how with what we have.