I wonder how that would work out?

[Alpo]

A masked vigilante in any other country in the world.

 

Batman, Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Green Hornet, Lone Ranger.

 

In this country we have a long tradition of people standing up for themselves and killing the bad guys without interference from badge toters. But the rest of the world?

 

I'm watching The Amazing Spider-Man. Two. Peter's girlfriend - she figured out he's Spider-Man - has got a scholarship to Oxford, and she tells him she's going to England. So he tells her that he's going to. Wherever she goes he's going to follow. If she goes to England, he's going to go to England. "They have crime over there, right?"

 

And I just had a thought about how this country where you're not allowed to defend yourself. Where you're not allowed to own a weapon for self-defense. This country would put up with a mask vigilante. Yeah, nah. I don't think so.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

I don't think that it would work out here either. We tell stories like those as a fantasy. I think that a masked vigilante would be treated the way that the police initially treat them in the movies. 

For starters, say a masked vigilante catches a Bad Guy in the commission of a crime. He can't just tie him up and leave him for the police. There's no evidence that would stick. Not enough to go to Trial anyway. In the movies, T.V. and comics, the story ends when the Hero stops the Bad Guy. In real life, that's just the beginning. 

And say the Hero does just leave the Bad Guy for the police. The Bad Guy could sue for false imprisonment. 

Standing up for ourselves and killing a Bad Guy, IN SELF DEFENCE, is one thing. Chasing him down and killing him, whatever the reason, is something else entirely. 

[watab kid]

im in agreement , it seems the deck is stacked against the law abiding in favor of those that commit crimes these days - its why there are so many let out to prey again untill somebody dies 

[Eyesa Horg]

That's why it's called "criminal justice" instead of "victim justice". 😡

[Alpo]

7 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

And say the Hero does just leave the Bad Guy for the police. The Bad Guy could sue for false imprisonment. 

I was watching a video short the other day of Nolan.

 

He and his Training Officer go knock on the door and finally this old man answers the door and his TO says "You called about a burglary?"

 

Old man says "You took so long I took a nap." Then he goes on to tell about a man that came to his door all covered in blood and wanted his car keys. They asked if he could give them a description and he said he could do better than that and told them to follow him.

 

They go out in the garage where he pops the trunk and there in the car, all tied up, is a guy covered in blood. Old man says, "the karate lessons came in real handy".

 

And Nolan asked his TO, "do we arrest - HIM - too? That might be 'false imprisonment'." And she says they will treat that as a citizen's arrest and it'll be fine.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

31 minutes ago, Alpo said:

And Nolan asked his TO, "do we arrest - HIM - too? That might be 'false imprisonment'." And she says they will treat that as a citizen's arrest and it'll be fine.

That would be different than just leaving him tied up on the street and telling the Police that he's there.