01-13-2018, 09:13 AM
(01-10-2018, 08:26 PM)irukandji Wrote:(01-10-2018, 06:43 PM)Robyn Wrote: And that was one of my earlier points, Nick may not be what a police officer should be in real life, but the show wasn’t about law enforcement investigating crime, it was about a Grimm investigating Wesen crime. So the central character wouldn’t ever live up to the expectations of real life law enforcement. He would, however, live up to the fictional expectations of a fictional Grimm.
And that is what makes him corrupt, even by the parameters of the series, Robyn. We know there were many other cops, and some of them were wesen. However, they followed orders and stuck to the parameters of law enforcement. We know that because wesen were not only brought in alive, but were serving time. We know the appropriate documentation was on file. It was only when Nick started in as a grimm that his reports were being fudged and suspects ended up dead.
True, but the show wasn’t about other cops unknowingly confronting and arresting Wesen. If we look at some of the bizarre crimes Nick dealt with - bizarre by human law enforcement standards - human officers would have had some rather bizarre unexplainable entries in their reports and there would have been a higher number of officers killed while confronting suspects who were never caught.
Considering that many Wesen were successfully arrested and convicted by human cops, it’s reasonable to assume Nick and Hank made some of those arrests before Nick became a Grimm. How did they and the other cops deal with the bizarre details when writing up their reports? Did Renard accept those reports as written or tell the arresting officers to remove entries that might make the DA & jury question their sanity? The show didn’t worry with explaining real life quandaries that might come up because it’s central character was a Grimm detective arresting or killing Wesen.
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