#shitty police are shitty

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“I know, and we both know that the gentry get away with taking women every year. Most don’t ever get recovered. The danger’s too high. That’s the way it is.”

I think that the singular thing that's already making this better than The Hollows series is simply just that... the exact same stuff is happening, but like... the rescue efforts basically boil down to a highly specialized PI.

Vs in The Hollows, where they have specialized police, yet they still won't do anything, and the end result is basically the same.

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“The I.S. isn’t handling anything right now,” Edden said...

The IS has never once handled anything ever.

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All around me were the telltale signs of other demons: a footprint here, a scuff there—an oval impression in the dust that looked like the bottom of Newt’s staff. They’d been here, seen the damage, incidentally obliterating the evidence that Ku’Sox might have been here earlier to make the leak in my line worse. I sort of knew how the I.S. Felt.

The IS would have thrown Ku'Sox into jail and left him to rot without any actual evidence. And then done zero follow-up, and tried exactly 0% to find anything.

Which... honestly? Starting to sound like a good idea.

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"The I.S. is ignoring the incident completely, so sending a team to ascertain it wasn't your magic? You're going to take the hit for this.”

Of course the IS is just sitting by and letting the bad guys go. We're on book... uh... something of too many. Not once in all this time have they ever actually done one goddamned thing. Not once.

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“Who is going to bring her in, then? The I.S.? I talked to them this morning. They don’t care.”

WHEN THE HELL DOES IS GIVE A RAT'S BEHIND ABOUT LITERALLY ANYTHING?!

This is the seventh book in the series (of 13), and NOT ONE SINGLE TIME have the IS actually stepped up to the plate to do their goddamned job.

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Where in hell was the I.S.? Someone must have seen that explosion.

“Never around when you need them,” I muttered, shoving a chunk of ice as large as a chair out of my way. “Probably out giving someone a ticket for selling expired charms.”

We're three books into this series and I have yet to see the IS do one goddamned thing.

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