Advanced Criminal Justice, Class 12, Period 1, 02.16.06

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[OOC: More Police Squad! This time I actually found a way for discussion to happen based on it. Class Info Post.]

The Tick was standing at the podium at the front of the class as the students walked in.

"Hello, class! Turn your essays in to Rory."

"Today, we'll be talking about another case from Police Squad. Now, this may be a surprise to some of you, but the sport of boxing has often been tied to organized crime. After the suspicious suicide of a boxer who had just won the biggest fight of his career - and when I say suspicious, I mean that in addition to being hung with a noose there was also a bomb blast and bullet holes, which, if you're going to commit suicide, it a bit much, really - Sgt. Drebin went undercover."

"Det. Drebin took up the identity 'Bob Kelly, Boxing Manager.' Drebin found a crooked boxer he felt he could turn straight named Buddy Briggs, participated in an illegal poker game to win Briggs' contract. Drebin helped him train and together they drew the Champ - who was in the pocket of a crime boss named Montague Martin - into a fight. Briggs won the fight and fingered Martin as the head of this web of crime that was the local boxing scene after Drebin recued Mrs. Briggs from a kidnapping by Martin's men."

"All this was unnecessary in terms of the original murder, though. A hair found at the scene proved that a hitman by the name of Luca Burnett, a known associate of Martin was in the room at the time of the murder, solving the actual crime ten minutes into the episode."

"So my question to you today is a question of ethics. Given that the original murder had been solved already, was it acceptable for Police Squad to participate in that illegal poker game and then risk the lives of a boxer and his wife without them knowing they were working with the police? Does going that extra distance to prove the larger crime worth the bent laws and use of unwitting citizens? Does it matter that the unwitting citizens were tied in some was to said larger crime? Does it matter that Police Squad is a special division of the police force? Mind you, this isn't exactly atypical, even though Police Squad itself is quite strange. I'm just asking you if it is Right."

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Re: Speak [Class 12]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Okay, what if you'd had a professional vampire hunter along? Then you guys would have been the civilians. I mean, as it was, some of us had to stay home, and there were people saying you all were amateurs. They were wrong, for the most part" Rory shrugged. "I'm just saying."

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

"And while Briggs didn't know his new manager was a cop, he did still know the danger of going against Martin, so it's not quite as different as people may think. And even though Mrs. Briggs was kidnapped, Det. Drebin hadn't intentionally brought her in. Furthermore, he immediately did everything he could to rescue her."

"Just something to consider."

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron gritted his teeth. "Then we'd still have chosen to risk our lives and maybe people would get off our backs about it too."

He was trying not to look at Tick as he replied Rory, but then Tick started talking and he stared at the professor. "He still used someone without their knowledge."

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Cameron. I'm incredibly proud of all of you. You know that, right?" Rory asked, watching him. "Everyone is. And I wasn't trying to argue. I was just playing devil's advocate, okay?"

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron nods and rubs a hand across his face. "Yeah. Sorry."

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[bugofjustice.livejournal.com]

At some handwavey point after this when he had a moment to speak to Rory quietly, The Tick told her, "Keen work with that discussion!"

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Thank you, sir," Rory smiled.

Re: Speak [Class 12]

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I think what annoys me most is that the original problem was already solved. And they didn't reconsider their new course of action, in light of the murderer being revealed," Parker said carefully. "Possibly their was no overwhelming need to act at that time. The file's not real clear on that. In comparing that to last week, there were several people who'd already been hurt and nearly killed, and no other plans, valid or not, proposed."