Questions tagged [police]
For questions about the civil forces responsible for enforcing the law. This tag is useful when asking how law enforcement practices would depart from reality in a set of given circumstances.
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In my city, magic prevents people from harboring ill intent in their minds. Is there any reasonable need for a police force of any kind?
FOR CONTEXT: In the setting I am developing, there is a city. In this city, by magical means I would happily detail if needed, there is no evil. What I mean by that is no one can harbor ill intent ...
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How would a Counter-Terrorism agency respond to an aircraft carrier highjacking? [closed]
A helicopter carrier has been hijacked by a Terrorist group off the coast of California, and PATRIOT, a newly formed Homeland Security Division has been sent to prove themselves. PATRIOT is trained to ...
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What would be a suitable name for a police force in a medieval fantasy setting? [closed]
The word 'Police' doesn't go much with a fantasy setting. In my opinion, names like '[Insert Country Name] Guards', Gendarme, Constabulary and Marechaussee would he more suitable. What is your opinion?...
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What are the Legal Responsibilities of a Police Officer with this Runaway Child?
So per this question- a month before the Police Officer meets the Runaway Child 'magic' suddenly appears in a 90s era Earth. Roughly 1 in 10,000 people start demonstrably using 'magic' and they can be ...
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how do traffic move when there's roadblock by police [closed]
Imagine there is a gun shooting incident so police will obviously control traffic but then how do people react when road is blocked? do they wait on block to know what is happening or do they just go ...
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A SWAT van with Raptors attacking it? [closed]
I want to know if a SWAT Lenco BearCat van that got teleported to a different world where a group of a few dozen raptors starts attacking the van. Would the van be able to survive about eight hours ...
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How realistic is it to have building blueprints?
In fictional media that revolves around police, SWAT, or agents from some three-letter-agency, it's common that before they go somewhere, they have their tech-genius go though some database and ...
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How can space cop arrest the suspicious spacecraft moving at sub-luminal velocity?
Set in a distant future, reports of alien and drug traffickings have been on the rise and there was mounting pressure for Mr User6760, president of intergalactic interpol to resign. The traffickers ...
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Citywide Abandonment of Law Enforcement at World's End?
Building out a place less than 100 years in the future where the world is finally in agreement that it's coming to an end, in about 10 years or less. The air is trash, high government people are in ...
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Practical reasons to have both a large police force and bounty hunting network?
The Hegemony is a global government governing Earth and her colonies. As a global government the Hegemony has a rather large police force (the Hegemony has merged the military and police within the ...
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Could organised crime gangs have ever usurped government in the United States of America?
The place: The United States of America.
The time: Whenever organised crime bosses think that they could have a chance of succeeding, between the English recognition of the US as an independent ...
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What would be the pros and cons of a merged military and police?
What would be the pros and cons of a merged military and police?
In the world I am building war is an ongoing issue, and so the culture's military is quite extensive. Also the majority of people carry ...
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Everyone can heal very quickly. How does this impact forensics and criminal investigations?
So the central conceit of my story is that everyone has various superhuman powers in modern day America, and one of the powers that everyone has is a superhuman healing factor. Anything we'd classify ...
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How would a city police department handle a super-hero joining as an officer?
Inspired by some of the comments on How to safely capture someone when you have super-strength I am wondering how police departments would handle a super-hero entering the police academy and joining ...
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