What cops think about Daredevil
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Date: 2015-02-15 01:07 pm (UTC)Fascinating.
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Date: 2015-02-15 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 02:25 pm (UTC)The big difference is that, just like Batman, Superman is not subject to the internal rules and strictures of a Police officer, he has no accountability for his own actions beyond himself.
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Date: 2015-02-15 02:56 pm (UTC)It's not an inadequacy in the legal system. Superman isn't sitting there thinking "those bank robbers will be out on bail if I don't take care of them myself", he is making a citizen's arrest and then handing the felons to the authorities.
He is still subject to the rule of law, just not the extraordinary responsibilities and powers of a police officer. You don't need to be a cop to be a good samaritan making a citizen's arrest.
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Date: 2015-02-15 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 08:13 pm (UTC)Even then, Icon, this (besides the fact Matt isn't himself by the time this happens) and the examples you purport miss the mark, I'd hazard. The officers see DD as one of the team, working with the cops and helping them perform their work -- that's the kind of thing you get from this piece. He's no Marshal Law; more like a cop in pectore, at least in their eyes, someone who partakes of the same sense of duty and civil responsibility.
Superman has been effectively deputized since the mid-to-late Golden Age, and as for Batman, even through twists and turns like No Man's Land and Eternal, he does ultimately abide by the system, and is most often portrayed cooperating with it (just ask Jim Gordon).
That said, comics and manga (or anime, for that matter) do provide several examples of vigilantism as brutal enforcement, critique of the system, or even the mechanical, dumbed-down, unfeeling application of the law.
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Date: 2015-02-15 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 02:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 03:02 pm (UTC)If there would be legal issues with the use of the lasso, it would be under the Fourth Amendment, not the Fifth, which covers unreasonable searches.
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Date: 2015-02-15 02:20 pm (UTC)Naw, he's the other Commissioner Gordon.
Date: 2015-02-15 04:06 pm (UTC)Re: Naw, he's the other Commissioner Gordon.
Date: 2015-02-15 04:47 pm (UTC)Re: Naw, he's the other Commissioner Gordon.
Date: 2015-02-15 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 02:34 pm (UTC)Sure, Daredevil is a cool guy. But what if it's a more rotten police force and the cape is a Captain Excessive Force or the Aryan Avenger instead?
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Date: 2015-02-15 02:49 pm (UTC)They did change their tune after the excesses of Hand rule of Hell's Kitchen started to show, though.
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Date: 2015-02-15 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-15 08:44 pm (UTC)