| After several hours of research and interviews, I have come to a rather startling decision. The City’s police force has no legitimate legal leg to stand on. Herein I will discuss the source of these findings, as well as the possible ramifications should this situation remain unchanged. While the presence of the City’s police force, hereafter referred to as the Police, is supported by the office of the Warden. The latter's function, nor its limitations, are defined. Wherein a force without a defined function or limitation has granted power, and wherein the Police perform functions within the City, Therefore the Police have no more right to detain an individual for an offense, than an individual does to committing it. Even if the actions taken by the aforementioned perpetrator are worthy of incarceration, how are they to know what is and is not acceptable behavior within the City?
This City does not currently posses any binding codices of law.
Any and all actions taken have no legal precedence nor justification, and as such, any action which the Police take can be considered the same as any action taken by any other entity within the City, be they the children of the orphanage, or the organization known as Millennium.
I hold that it is both necessary, and desired, that this City maintain a police force. But such a force must have set limits to its powers, as well as publicize what is, and is not, acceptable behavior within the boundaries of the City. The only group which will have any meaningful say in what is and is not on these codices is us, the citizens of this city. I therefore say that either the Warden holds a meeting open to all citizens in which we may discuss the laws of the city, or the police force be disbanded for fear that it be used against the people.
[OOC: For those of you wondering why Blitza is suddenly interested in Politics? No Laws = it's not illegal to break contracts = Blitza can't sue people that break the rules he so carefully lays out. ] |
The only problem I can see is that it will probably be really hard for all of the citizens to agree on accepted rules. The City is full of such a huge variety of people with really different morals of what is right and wrong.
Edited at 2008-04-11 11:20 pm (UTC)