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Bit of a dilemma: Say you have a setting where the main protagonist works for a government agency. They are neither an intelligence officer nor of a military background. They work for the agency's investigative arm as a detective/special agent with powers of arrest, although the agency as a...

(I wanted to keep this separate from an earlier thread.) Who are some legitimately good cops in fiction? Not the cops who gain sympathy from the audience despite being corrupt and violent. (The Shield) Not the cops who get results despite being a loose cannon. (Dirty Harry) Not the cops who...

So, with the recent public reevaluations of law enforcement organizations over the past decades (among other things), which depictions of law enforcement characters and groups in fiction do you think still hold up or have aged better than most?

[Off the Books] 1998 Police Procedural Drama Survival-Horror, expect Character Death Bio-Organic Weapons and Zombies 5-8 Players Post Every 2 or 3 Days Fate + Discovery Action 4D6 / 4D3, Modified Fate SRD https://imageshack.com/a/img921/4374/Zydiby.png The Arklay Taskforce - Disbanded...

Cleanse... CLeanse... CLEanse... CLEAnse... CLEANse... CLEANSe... CLEANSE... WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY why. They must be CLEANSED. Why don't they wish to beCLEANSED???? Dad always said god cleanses the unclean so why don't they want it? It's INFURIATING. They struggle so much when they...

What it says in the tin. I don't think I've ever seen a county sheriff in a scripted tv show, is there an actual reason to portray each individual small town having it's own sherrifs department?

S3.5E1: Victors “Gotta say Xand, happy you changed my mind,” Buffy acknowledged. After the battle at Graduation, she’d been ready to go right to bed, but Xander had campaigned for a spontaneous trip to the Bronze. They’d gotten a nice table, and the music was already hopping. The dance floor...

Ozai. Amon. Unalaq. Zaheer. Kuvira. Names in history books, enemies of the past Avatars. Warlords, revolutionaries, terrorists and monarchs. Men and women who waged war and changed the world. Each of them eventually stopped by the Avatar in times of Crisis. Now however, Avatar Korra has at...

Act I: Cop-Killer 〚3-William-56〛Mary Envangeline "Marv" Lucas (@Kensai) Vice, Raccoon Hospital 05:49 PM _____It was a Friday night in Raccoon, a night slower than most but not any less eventful. As the sun handed its responsibilites to the streetlamps and the glare of headlights, the life...

[Case File: The Arklay Murders] [CLICK HERE] Be a Police Officer before the Raccoon City Incident 1998 Police Procedural Drama Survival-Horror, expect Character Death Bio-Organic Weapons and Zombies 5-8 Players Post Every 2 or 3 Days Fate + Discovery Action 4D6 / 4D3, Modified Fate SRD...

The Arklay Murders (Interest Check) Be a Police Officer before the Raccoon City Incident 1998 Police Procedural Drama Survival-Horror, expect Character Death Bio-Organic Weapons and Zombies 5-8 Players Post Every 2 or 3 Days Fate + Discovery Action 4D6 / 4D3, Modified Fate SRD _____Welcome...

Hello! The following was my entry into the August 2018 Fiction Contest. The prompt for the contest was: Sirens. I've been reliably informed that I did not win. However, I was pretty pleased with what I came up with, so here it is. === A BEAT WORTH PROTECTING === "Attention all units...

When did it happen, you wonder, that the people around you started to resemble snakes. The heavy breathing, the intense glares, and the too warm rooms making every meeting an unpleasant one. When, you wonder, did you start to lose the feeling of camaraderie that working with your partners...

It was discussed, debated and argued. However, no one can deny that with the common use of search engines, dissatisfaction with the world and even just general stupidity... Magic was becoming alarmingly common in Gotham City. Commissioner Gordon listened to everyone's suggestions and even...

Even in a world dominated by the activities of capes there are still brave men and women serving as officers of the law. In the city of Brockton Bay the police stand alongside the Protectorate and the Parahuman Response Team in the fight against crime and villainy. Who are you? [] Name []...

First off, do you dislike how aliens are either way, way better than us (DC comics, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Avatar) or how we're so much better than them (X-com, Mass Effect, The Deathworlders). Do you wonder why can't there just be a balance? For example, how about humanity acts as...

So, I've been turning this idea around in my head for awhile; it's so deceptively simple, I'm astonished I haven't seen it in use before. THE PREMISE: A Master Vampire based in a major metropolis (I'm thinking NYC since it's the only major city I have experience with, but another could do just...

In the Spacetime Continuum, temporally-based offences are considered especially heinous. In New Multiverse City, the dedicated agents who investigate these strange felonies are members of an elite organisation known as the Spacetime Bureau of Investigation. These are their stories . . . [x]...

You are in Providence, Rhode ISland. The day before today, a woman has been found dead from what looks like an animal mauling her. She had no identity papers on her. During the night, her body disappeared from the morgue where it was stored awaiting autopsy. Today, the police arrests a woman...

Grey clouds had once more obscured the sky above New Jericho, rendering everything in a grey hue. A group of five cadets, four men and one woman, stand in a windy courtyard, the imposing side of Residential District B Police station Beta, one of the few stations in the city to have its own...

You are THE Law Enforcement as in you're the cowboy cop responsible for taking down dozens of heavily armed crime syndicates with your trusty Magnum revolver, a hunch, and your balls of steel all the while leaving a pile of dead crooks and millions of property damage in your wake. Recently you...