To the cops of Chicago do the Alpha's seem like a gang?

[Con]

I'm sure none of the Alpha's are stupid enough to sell drugs or do any stupid illegal profit shit that could get them sent to prison. However cops would have noticed the downturn in crime in the radius of the Campus. WOuld they assume those long term academics run the campus and make sure no hard shit goes down. and therefore would they assume the Alpha's are a gang to be kept an eye on?

Possibly run by one Harry Dresden an independent contractor who sometimes works for Gentlemen Johnny Marcone sometimes against him.

Harry Dresden is protected by former cop Karrin Murphy who has a dodgy reputation on the police force.

*shrug* from what I know of Chicago culture it seems a pretty accurate representation of the socio economic system.

[wardenferry419]

I dare say that your more cynical than me.

[forumghost]

I think that the campus has a very well trained and discerning pack of wild dogs, and that as long as the only people being attacked are would-be muggers, the police find themselves remarkably indifferent to the situation.

[Con]

Hmmm yeah na cops get nervous when dogs wild or trained start attacking people.

[wardenferry419]

I am sure there are conversations like this:

Chief: I need to say something to the media people.
Snyder: So?
Chief: So? You want the usual story? Gang-related? PCP?
Snyder: What'd you have in mind? The truth?
Chief: Right. Gang-related. PCP.

Buffy-School Hard episode.

[Snark Knight]

I'm not sure the police would have noticed much. The Alphas were mostly targeting low-level supernatural threats. SI might possibly notice a decrease in weird stuff happening in their territory, but they're probably too overworked to look a gift horse in the mouth. I think they had a bit of a sideline in suppressing mundane street crime, but it's not like the gangsters they did run into are going to file a complaint to the cops about a pack of wolves running them off their turf.

[Smaug with OCD]

This is actually a really, really interesting question. Frankly, after everything we've seen so far, I'd be surprised if the normies haven't noticed what's going on. But, we don't get things from that angle. So, we can't know until it's revealed(probably around the BAT).

[Mr. Death]

Yeah, I don't think the cops think anything of the Alphas, because they're just plain not aware of the Alphas.

Do you think the vampires they turn away are going to report to the cops?

Do you think muggers are going to be like, "Yeah, I pulled out my knife on this couple, then a dog bit me!"

Who do you think is going to be telling the cops that their attempts to rob/kill/eat people are being disrupted by dogs?

[Mr. Death]

Probably the most "attention" the Alphas get is some coed on Yik Yak posts, "OMG, I was on my way home from a party, kinda drunk, and this guy tried to mug me! Then out of nowhere, a bunch of dogs ran him off. God is watching! #blessed" followed by a chorus of, "Right, that happened, sure."

If anyone does start reporting about dogs breaking up crimes on campus, that's just a weird enough story to get shunted over to Special Investigations, where Murphy promptly doesn't do a damn thing about it except tell Billy to try not to get caught on camera.

[wardenferry419]

Better the odd police report than the incident with supernatural fleas.

[wyltok]

I wonder how the general perception of the Alphas has changed in the post-Changes world? In Ghost Story, we see that Murphy seems to be using Will and his friends in a "Brute Squad" fashion, as it were, up to and including using them to scare people.

Between that, the fact that Marcone is funding the Justice League, and Murphy being out of the force, I imagine it's possible Will and Co. have picked up an... interesting reputation among the cops.

[wardenferry419]

Given the precinct attack that occurred in BK2 that was probably rumored around to other stations. And, the other on-screen public appearances of the Alphas. Cops talk to other cops same as soldiers talk to other soldiers. Word gets around.

[Mr. Death]

You know what happens to cops that go on about werewolf attacks?

They get bumped down to SI and their careers die there.

I think you guys are really overestimating how much chatter there's going to be about the Alphas.

[groinkick]

[wardenferry419]

What movie or tv show was this from?