fandomhigh | Criminal Justice- Monday- 1st period

Back to the regular routine, all! Right after a time change! And your first class of the day was nonsensical! Good luck.

"Welcome back," Kitty greeted them, lesson notecard in hand. "We're going back to the Real World today… not sure why this guy capitalized that. Apparently back in the 80s there weee tales of a class out of a police academy in a big city. They were in desperate need of new officers, so they lowered the bar so much. Just so much. Some of the most prominent members of the class resulting from this included a con man, a man with the superhuman ability to parrot just about any noise, an unusually tall and strong florist, a small, generally quiet woman with some drastic anger management issues, and a gun enthusiast who was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic. This class of cadets was led by a lieutenant who displayed nothing but open disregard for all of them.

"The important thing is that this group had managed to pool their forces to save their city several times - as well as, for some reason, Moscow once - but it seems to me that there are other ways of bolstering a police force during times of need besides lowering your criteria for officers and hoping for the best. Don't get me wrong, these people sound like a good group, but I suspect that they'd be better suited to non-official law enforcement, like superheroing. They're definitely colorful enough for that!"

Kitty frowned. "I meant it's true, but he didn't have to say it. Anyway, the discussion topic for today is how would you strengthen a police force that is in need of officers to this degree? Or, are you cool with this lowered standard and why?"

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Astrid Magnussen

Shuri

Are you even awake?

Astrid was awake, though she was already missing the sunshine and the open air pools, but she figured this was good. Back to Fandom, back to a place that didn't remind her at all of California and, hopefully, eventually, didn't remind her of what she'd lost and that she might never see California again.

And distract her from clinging to the fact that she'd felt that way about California the last time, too.

So focusing on the lecture and the description of this rag-tag force of unconventional purveyors of the law was just what she needed, her notebook open in front of her as she sketched out little caricatures of the cadets as Ms. Pryde-Barton described them, which helped set the scene and scenario a little better for her in the long run when she contemplated this week's questions.

How would you save this city's struggling police force? Or is hiring a sociopath in the form of Steve Gutenberg a good idea?

The sketching had also proven as a distraction, since Astrid's relationship with the police was a considerably a unique one, from having watched her mother being apprehended by them, naked in the middle of the night, years ago, when everything so drastically changed, to her own arrest for screwing up the windows at Turtle & Canary and giving her and Normal real fake prison tattoos, to the various trips to the prison in Frontera, where the worlds she'd so desperately tried to keep apart collided, and everything changed again.

"I really don't think," she ventured, also pulling up from a class she'd had before that she couldn't remember the name of but talked an awful lot about the subject of authority to a very tumultious mix of results inside of her, "lowering the bar is a good solution to solve any problem. That seems like a good way to make the problems worse, even if they did incidentally work out in the examples given. If your police force is having trouble keeping up with stuff due to their current numbers, maybe the solution isn't to look at the amount of police, but the amount of crime they have to deal with, and if there are ways of reducing that better so you don't need as much. That seems way more sustainable in the long run, though it's not easier. Which is probably why it doesn't get done very much. Lowering standards, though, that's much easier."

"That's a really good answer," Kitty told her, impressed. "So day they're looking into the amount of crime and reasons behind it. Should they still be hiring voice artists in the meantime?"

And now Astrid was sort of wondering how many of the cops around L.A. might actually be voice actors who were having trouble breaking into the industry so picked up police work as a temporary gig...

"That depends," she said, shrugging a little. "Have they gone through all the proper training and stuff like that? It just seems like it's a pretty important job to just fling anyone into."

"They graduated from the academy, but maybe didn't do the best," Kitty said.

"Then that's fine," said Astrid, sounding almost magnanimous in this sudden bestowal of approval. "They put in the time. Not everyone can be the best at what they do."

"I'd think looking into why you are having difficulty recruiting and retaining could be valuable," Shuri said. "Perhaps no one wishes to join because your current staff are terrible to work with."

"Considering the lieutenant got called out for being a jerk, you might not be wrong. Does adding this group help the workplace?" Kitty asked.

"Only if you also own the liquor store in town," Shuri said dryly.

"This week's Extra Credit is to bring in something whimsical for the classroom," Kitty read, and nodded. "Sure, lets have some whimsy in our criminal justice."

Edited 2020-03-09 13:41 (UTC)

Obviously this class was created with a big-blue-weird-dude-in-2005 mindset, but Kitty was here for questions anyway.

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