Questions tagged [law-enforcement]
For questions about ways to carry out legislation and regulations, as well as punish or rehabilitate those who do not obey by the rules.
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How do you distinguish bounty hunters from kidnappers?
In my world, the police mostly do office work. The real work is done by private security officers and bounty hunters.
Private security officers aren't concerned with stopping crimes per se, they just ...
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The state's miniscule security apparatus is already 'ruling' a large teeming populace, how much more barebones can we get?
As a disclaimer: I'm working on a dark political satire where the literary classic of 'Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale' is front and centre.
Setting background: Basically, it's a parody of post-...
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How can my dwarves keep humans from reverse engineering their technology?
Almost two thousand years before the story I'm telling, when the Dark Lord was defeated. All of the elder races united and signed a treaty which basically froze the world into an enforced status quo,(...
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How to stop the (civilian) police force from being 'sidelined and 'overawed' in a military junta?
I have a setting revolving around a 'nation' that was formed via warlord adventurism. This society is; statist, stratified, miltarist, pompous, xenophobic, isolationist, authoritarian, aristocratic, ...
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How does a unscrupulous infamous Raubritter get 'tolerated enough' to not get removed? [closed]
To put a long story short, we have a long man-made bridge between two minor political entities. Along this bridge, is a Zollburg. The individual in charge imposes far higher tolls than 'what is ...
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Taxes-in-kind as legal tender concurrent with a 'semi-cashless' society [closed]
Taxes in the future
In my story, a vaguely cyberpunky retro-futurastic setting has digital payments (credit-chits+personal communication devices+identity implants etc). Ie, swipe, insert, tap and go.
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The junta deliberately chose a new radically ideologically different minister. Is there a precedent? [closed]
Basically, we have a burgeoning city-state that formed because some local warlord/bandit chief got their momentum going.
Technologically... lets say 'post-now'. And food is imported because they cant ...
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Why do the police forces in my world use antiquated weaponry?
Here's a little background:
My science-fantasy world has been devastated by monster attacks coming from various enormous pits inside the planet. The first led to a total collapse of civilization and ...
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How to keep the imprisonment of mythical creatures a secret from the public, but not from their human family members?
For longer than has been recorded, "monster hunters" of various denominations have hunted humanoid magical creatures which have lived in hiding for even longer.
Most of these creatures can ...
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What are good reasons to create a city/nation in which a government wouldn't let you leave [closed]
I am building a city that the main character will be prohibited to leave from and yet their intentions of entering the city are to save the world form an extra-planer threat. So they have to go in. ...
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Why would authority figures' uniforms be more colourful than average people's? [closed]
In my world, there are magical humans often named wizards. Their scientific name is Homo magicus. However, there are standard humans (Homo sapiens as you shall know).
Traditionally, wizards live in a ...
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How can a society punish someone who doesn't care about anything? [closed]
Suppose there is a criminal who doesn't care about anything. He doesn't care about himself, his body, money, other people, the world, or anything else. Now suppose he goes and commits a crime.
Is ...
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How do human police (non-lethally) apprehend far larger, more dangerous races?
One of the factions of my setting has several different races cooperating to form a cohesive society. Being relatively modern, it has a variety of amenities we would consider a part of civilisation, ...
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Gyrojet pistol vs forensics? [closed]
How would ballistic evidence be gathered against against a gryojet pistol in which there would not be the clear marks left on the bullet due to the barrel? I'm thinking of this in a science fiction ...
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Is excavating alien technology legal? [closed]
I know that there are diffrent laws regarding excavating resources on other planets and asteroids,but they are far from being precise. Many conflicts arise when nations want to make one law that ...
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