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acethedria · 2 years ago

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My thoughts on cops in Drawtectives

The Drawtectives have a whole weird relationship to cops and honestly it’s very inconsistent. This is common for detective stories so I wanted to think about it more.

Warning for spoilers for both seasons and the one shot

The Drawtectives themselves

Are the Drawtectives cops? If I were to classify them, they're only like cops in the way that a Superhero is, where they effectively act as law enforcement but with morals. They’re not real private investigators, they’re fictional, and can thus be like how they are. The Drawtectives would never go after anyone who didn’t "deserve it." However you define that.

However, they’re still a form of law enforcement and I believe I would be remiss if I didn’t say that they are still putting people into prison. They’re still putting "bad" people into the hands of actual full on cops, so they’re entirely complicit in the process. This is quite common in detective stories. We love Benoit Blanc but he still is in leagues with cops so y’know in real life how good could he possibly be.

The B Team

Okay so S1 starts off with a sympathetic character as a cop. Flem Mucowsy was only added to be a front door guard but it’s still an odd thing to start the group of cops we meet with a sympathetic / pathetic guy who’s so sick he can’t even do his job correctly.

This is contrasted immediately by an overly serious Inna Urfass. She is the only competent cop we really meet in the entire season, gathering evidence, putting people into individual rooms, acting as security for the entire building. She gets close to copaganda. Especially since the fact that she is stated to be the only competent person on her team, it sort of portrays her in a sympathetic light, that she is smart and everyone around her is holding her back because she "Does her job" (paraphrasing).

Pierce Steel is an absolute idiot and so is still Bogan, but during interactions with Pierce Steel we do know that Jancy used to work with him often and even had him declared innocent for a crime he didn’t commit. This reflects quite well on Jancy, as she absolutely ensures that the innocent are not punished, although of course it doesn't question the system itself. Pierce doesn’t either cause that’s what made him want to be a cop? For some reason? Pierce is a weird character in this regard.

Imagine a bunch of unequivocal idiots being the ones to decide who gets arrested and put into the process of the justice system and who gets to walk free… oh wait.

Paladins

Well, first of all, what even is a paladin? Sorin stops corruption and worker mistreatment but he still arrested Sam Ug, so Paladins seem to be different but very similar to cops where they arrest and investigate suspects. I don’t really know what makes Sorin as a paladin captain different from Pierce Steel. Sorin is a bastard too even if he was a socialist cop, however the hell that works.

The A Team

The A Team is like actual copaganda I think. A bunch of cool cops who know what they’re doing and do cool flips and shit while coming to take down the bad guy is such a stereotypically positive view of cops. It’s such a weird contrast with the entirety of the other cops in the series. Every single other one is either an idiot, comically serious, or Sorin who’s dead and also a socialist who hates corporations. They fully just do not fit in.

The One Shot

The one shot is when the Drawtectives literally interrogate witnesses with the help of cops arresting people. It is so out of character for the Drawtectives to be interrogating people honestly. Which by the way they should not be able to do legally unless they are actual cops so I don’t know what’s going on with Fancy Town’s policing system.

The real odd bit is Norm. Norm is a cop and is kind of just treated like a run of the mill guy. Harper is treated as unreasonable to freak out about the cop who arrested you walking towards you but tbh I get incredibly uncomfortable with law enforcement officers generally despite never having been arrested. I couldn’t imagine if you see the literal officer who once arrested you walking towards you in the park. Idk Norm is such a weird character and while I like his personality, the fact that he’s a cop is such an odd wrinkle in his whole thing that I can’t like him.

Also I mean hey at least the police aren’t afraid of treating other cops like suspects? That’s a positive.

Season 2

It has no cops. Not a one. Closest we get is Felix but he just thinks he's sending people home so, not really a cop.

Leland is arrested by cops with Jancy having called them but that’s kind of just the same issue as above with Jancy working with cops in general.

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