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Back in the Day

Jan 19, 2013 13:13

Title: Back in the Day
Characters: Nathan Petrelli, Peter Petrelli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 1,200
Setting: Preseason, New York, 2002 (set a few couple years after Light Up and Reminiscences)
Summary: Peter gets busted at a club and has to call his big brother to bail him out.

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nathan, !fandom: heroes, peter, rated pg

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wanderinspirits January 20 2013, 08:32:00 UTC

Really good.

I like that you mentioned that the police had no evidence against him and that they were trying to scare him into confessing so he would get a lesser punishment. That happens a lot more than people would want to think. Only so many even really make it to the court system anyway. (I'm a Criminal Justice major. We have discussions about this all the time, especially when I'm in my advisor's classes and he's a judge.)

It's good that he was a brother who knows how to work the system. :P

game_byrd January 20 2013, 08:48:34 UTC

I've known a couple people who got crosswise with the law. Neither of them went to trial, both pled out to things they hadn't done. The stories they told of the tactics used on them showed me how heavy-handed the manipulation and psychological ploys are. They made me seriously question the guilt of those in prison. It really colors how I portray the law in my stories, too. Good luck in your major! The system is full of backwards incentives, but there's nothing wrong with the people.

Thanks for the comment!

wanderinspirits January 20 2013, 18:36:33 UTC

Thank you very much. I'm not planning on being a cop but instead to go and get a masters in either that or Psychology (my minor) or law school. But, I'm open minded to what's out there ( ... )

game_byrd January 20 2013, 23:23:08 UTC

Yes, you're exactly right with them simply wanting the case solved. That's what I meant by backwards incentives. They're measured and rewarded by how many people they get convictions on, not whether they got the guilty party. 'They' in this case constitute the district attorney, prosecutorial teams, and the police.

I read an article Friday about investigations into crime labs - how the high case load and big backlog led to rewards for those who processed samples faster, and the fastest processing was simply to say 'yes' or 'no' to a match without bothering to test them. Since the criminal justice system is often immune to being double-checked by outside parties, the practice of falsifying results appears to be endemic and widespread.

wanderinspirits January 21 2013, 00:14:28 UTC

Oh. *blush* Sorry, I was reading and posting before my coffee kicked in. I feel really stupid now ( ... )

game_byrd January 21 2013, 00:22:46 UTC

Yeah, but for the Stuebenville thing, the state DA's office sent a guy down, who hob-knobbed with the local DA (?) and then his son mysteriously got a job at the local police office. The guy didn't find any evidence of misconduct, to no one's surprise ( ... )

wanderinspirits January 21 2013, 00:26:08 UTC

Ah, thank you. I'll have to read those when I get the chance. :)

Ugh, seriously? (Yeah, not surprised. Just what else can I say?) And you do have a good point and it's something that I'm seeing more and more as time goes on here. Law is above the law.

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