04-27-2017, 10:13 PM
(04-27-2017, 09:45 PM)izzy Wrote:You are correct but I'm talking about crimes where wesen maul their victims or something similar. Before Nick became a Grimm, he was a regular cop supposedly dealing with regular crime like knifings, shootings etc, your run of the mill crimes. Anything outside of this, without the knowledge, he attributed to animal attacks and that's apparently rampant in this Grimm Portland. But this obviously changes when the truth is revealed, for him he cannot unsee what he did. It's now a person that's committed this vicious crime instead a some wild animal wondering away from the woods. So say for instance a regular kehrseite cop happens to see a wesen woged committed this crime, how, in that situation can justice be carried out should the cop come forward with the fantastical thing he's seen? Who's going to believe him or take him seriously?(04-27-2017, 11:53 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: Ding! Ding! Ding! Ten points to @FaceInTheCrowd.
With this set up it's nearly impossible for Nick to abide by the laws he swore to uphold because he feels compelled to act when he sees others do wrong that the existing justice system is without the means to carry out justice accordingly. In a world where there aren't supernatural being but the actually are but live in the shadows or hidden among the general population the system is lacking so this kind of vigilantism will continue in its place.
The trouble is what you wrote is not so. Renard was asked point blank by Nick or Hank or Wu what percentage of crime was wesen related , and he replied nearly all of it.
Nick and supposedly Hank and Wu were able to solve crimes and put wesen away before they ever knew of Grimms and wesen.
So Nick and crew were making a very obvious choice. Operating outside of the legal system should have been the exception rather than the rule and only done (if at all) after very careful consideration.
Honestly I think the series would have been more interesting, if once a criminal was reveled to be wesen that the story became one of hoe to get the perp to trip up so they could convict under the existing law.
During the Blood Magic episode this season, a kehrseite orderly was facing murder charges for something he didn't do and because he saw the elderly lady he'd been taking care of for years woge and attack him and he was caught defending himself. When she dies later that night, he ends up being accused of killing her, how could justice be served so the innocent man goes free? Without revealing what truly happened, innocent people can end up behind bars or the real culprits roam around free because there's no legalistic way of dealing with wesen crime when they are a hidden part of society. This environment breeds vigilantism whether from Grimms or wesen who know the truth but have no means of guaranteeing justice is served accordingly within the system that's currently being enforced. Hoping a criminal trips himself up so he can be caught may not be good enough under certain circumstances, especially wesen who are repeat offenders, who've found a loop hole that keeps them from seeing the inside of a prison cell.
I don't think the show was interested in upholding the rule of law, at least not beyond those first few episodes. Nick did try to do things by the book or as close to it but that became more difficult as the show progressed. The writers used the "cop drama" as a springboard for the fairytales they wanted to tell but weren't interested in keeping to those parameters except as a means to do wesen of the week cases and finding new and different/creative ways of dealing with them that didn't involve your preferred option of simply arresting them and needing to ensure a conviction when the nature of the crime is beyond the kehrseite defined laws.