After Scorpio gets let out of custody because of it and other red tape issues, the killer pays a guy to beat the crap out of him so he can blame the beating on Harry, whose only defense is that it couldn't have been him, cause if he was the one who beat him, the guy would look a lot worse.
Note: Now and again, American movies in the 1930s and 40s will show a cop shooting at an unarmed, running suspect.
For example, the critics responsible for French New Wave Cinema famously complained about censorship that forbade French police being portrayed as anything but professional and competent.Ī quick breakdown of police brutality trends in fiction: the LAPD beats your ass and then decides what crime you committed the NYPD shoots you a few dozen times then pronounces you innocent 1930s cops are drunk Irishmen who beat you up for being Italian 1960s cops are sober Irishmen who beat you up for having long hair small town cops pull you over, tell you that your tail light is busted, and then bust your tail light with a nightstick when you ask which one (and give you a ticket for it) big city cops are uncompromising racists. Originally, a portrayal only American films got away with. Sometimes to make a statement about ethnic relations ( Do the Right Thing) as part of a gloomy Film Noir-type Wretched Hive setting ( Sin City) or as part of a futuristic Dystopian setting ( Nineteen Eighty-Four).
Though Truth in Television to some extent, this is often exaggerated in fiction. And often this is a category that contains pretty much everyone. Some types of policemen, however, are thugs who take a cruel pleasure in beating and tormenting people they don't like, for no reason at all. What do you think, coders et al? Can it be done? Should it be done?When the police aren't incompetent, then they're sadistic bullies.Įven though nobody likes being bossed around by the police, it's their job, and they have to do it whether we like it or not. Tl dr: Ransoming special files and prominent conservatives for money or Liberal prisoners. Just in case you needed even more ungodly amounts of money, or maybe even prisoner exchanges. But yeah, I feel like ransoms would fit the feel of the game and could probably extend to kidnapped prominent conservatives. The Guardian is probably better for most purposes.
in the middle of the park, creating a publicity nightmare.Īdmittedly I'm more interested in the second option, and I'm starting to doubt the use of the first. I imagine it as a hugely high-risk, high-pay endeavor with a chance of mercenaries, cops, or what-have-you breaking up the deal, and the option of you being the one to break faith and gun down the other negotiators. Imagine selling the tax files to the CEO for a huge pile of money, and some hate if you don't hide your tracks. One, handing it in to another liberal newspaper, which decreases both the impact and the backlash from the conservatives, while netting a small finder's fee, and the other ransoming it back to the owners. Anyway, I think there should be two new ways of dealing with the special files. I also really can't see that laundry staying private after the pawnshop owner spends weeks trying to sell the worthless stacks of paper. I just can't see pawnshops rolling out the carts of dosh for dirty laundry. I can't help but feel like that could do with some revamping.
If I sell it to a public pawnshop, not only is it valuable, but they don't hate me and it somehow doesn't get out. If I publish this huge pile of dirt, they hate me. Quote from: Bad Horse on March 18, 2015, 09:48:54 pm I had a thought while going through my piles of research papers and Judicial corruption evidence.