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A police officer gets a call from a teenager that claims of having witnessed his friend getting killed by a werewolf. The officer look up in the archives of the department and realizes that this is not the first time that someone claims witness of a supernatural act.
What would the officer do from there? Obviously, there are no ready-made police procedures for werewolf attacks. What would the police procedures be for investigating multiple reports of an unusual event?
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A police officer gets a call from a teenager that claims of having witnessed his friend getting killed by a werewolf. The officer look up in the archives of the department and realizes that this is not the first time that someone claims witness of a supernatural act.
What would the officer do from there? Obviously, there are no ready-made police procedures for werewolf attacks. What would the police procedures be for investigating multiple reports of an unusual event?
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Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
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Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago
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A police officer gets a call from a teenager that claims of having witnessed his friend getting killed by a werewolf. The officer look up in the archives of the department and realizes that this is not the first time that someone claims witness of a supernatural act.
What would the officer do from there? Obviously, there are no ready-made police procedures for werewolf attacks. What would the police procedures be for investigating multiple reports of an unusual event?
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A police officer gets a call from a teenager that claims of having witnessed his friend getting killed by a werewolf. The officer look up in the archives of the department and realizes that this is not the first time that someone claims witness of a supernatural act.
What would the officer do from there? Obviously, there are no ready-made police procedures for werewolf attacks. What would the police procedures be for investigating multiple reports of an unusual event?
society magic supernatural
society magic supernatural
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Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
1
Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago
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Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
1
Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago
Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
1
1
Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago
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You have to realize that the cop is not likely to believe in supernatural, and will likely chalk it up to imagination, animal attacks, or maybe a teen gang pretending to be werewolfes. Or unrelated criminals using a local legend to conceal their killings.
If you really want the cop to take the teen seriously, make sure cop knows the teen personally (neighbor or family friend), and teen is not involved in drugs/gangs, or anime/fantasy.
Check if "friend" is indeed dead, i.e. if there is a body, or there is a missing person. I assume somebody is missing; otherwise the reporting teen is getting a psych.eval.
1.a If no body, assume the "victim" is a runaway child. File report to state troopers, or maybe check nearby train stations and bus/truck stops. Find nothing = End of story.
1.b If cop is willing and has time, go check the scene of the incident. If no blood there, get mad at teen. End of story.
If there is a body or bloody scene, check if injuries are consistent with an animal attack. If so, call Animal Control or whoever to determine what kind of animal was that. If the cop is willing to put extra effort, look for DNA from under victim's nails, or from hair strands around the scene. Then beg his supervisor for money to do a DNA test, or take sample to a friendly university professor. Then he will discover that DNA is human, or unknown, and will finally suspect something.
2.a If there are no large animals in the area, or there is evidence of other people at the scene (e.g. footprings), interrogate the teen. She was not attacked, so she might have been the accomplice, or knew the attacker.
Check other reports to see if natural explanations were ruled out, or if same people were involved (if so, it's a role-playing gang) Chances are that there was not enough effort put in. Assume natural explanation. End of story.
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+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
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There is no standard protocol, and this question seems very story-based.
What matches the most a standard protocol actually used by police is dismissing the supernatural. Investigator (or police chief) would stick with rational explanations until the bitter end (and in many works of fiction we can see how it unfolds).
The other, less likely scenario, is that police is for whatever reason convinced that something is going on, and asks for help from outside experts (and, luckily, some werewolf expert will come to help).
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You have to realize that the cop is not likely to believe in supernatural, and will likely chalk it up to imagination, animal attacks, or maybe a teen gang pretending to be werewolfes. Or unrelated criminals using a local legend to conceal their killings.
If you really want the cop to take the teen seriously, make sure cop knows the teen personally (neighbor or family friend), and teen is not involved in drugs/gangs, or anime/fantasy.
Check if "friend" is indeed dead, i.e. if there is a body, or there is a missing person. I assume somebody is missing; otherwise the reporting teen is getting a psych.eval.
1.a If no body, assume the "victim" is a runaway child. File report to state troopers, or maybe check nearby train stations and bus/truck stops. Find nothing = End of story.
1.b If cop is willing and has time, go check the scene of the incident. If no blood there, get mad at teen. End of story.
If there is a body or bloody scene, check if injuries are consistent with an animal attack. If so, call Animal Control or whoever to determine what kind of animal was that. If the cop is willing to put extra effort, look for DNA from under victim's nails, or from hair strands around the scene. Then beg his supervisor for money to do a DNA test, or take sample to a friendly university professor. Then he will discover that DNA is human, or unknown, and will finally suspect something.
2.a If there are no large animals in the area, or there is evidence of other people at the scene (e.g. footprings), interrogate the teen. She was not attacked, so she might have been the accomplice, or knew the attacker.
Check other reports to see if natural explanations were ruled out, or if same people were involved (if so, it's a role-playing gang) Chances are that there was not enough effort put in. Assume natural explanation. End of story.
answered 3 hours ago
Bald Bear
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+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
add a comment |
up vote
4
down vote
You have to realize that the cop is not likely to believe in supernatural, and will likely chalk it up to imagination, animal attacks, or maybe a teen gang pretending to be werewolfes. Or unrelated criminals using a local legend to conceal their killings.
If you really want the cop to take the teen seriously, make sure cop knows the teen personally (neighbor or family friend), and teen is not involved in drugs/gangs, or anime/fantasy.
Check if "friend" is indeed dead, i.e. if there is a body, or there is a missing person. I assume somebody is missing; otherwise the reporting teen is getting a psych.eval.
1.a If no body, assume the "victim" is a runaway child. File report to state troopers, or maybe check nearby train stations and bus/truck stops. Find nothing = End of story.
1.b If cop is willing and has time, go check the scene of the incident. If no blood there, get mad at teen. End of story.
If there is a body or bloody scene, check if injuries are consistent with an animal attack. If so, call Animal Control or whoever to determine what kind of animal was that. If the cop is willing to put extra effort, look for DNA from under victim's nails, or from hair strands around the scene. Then beg his supervisor for money to do a DNA test, or take sample to a friendly university professor. Then he will discover that DNA is human, or unknown, and will finally suspect something.
2.a If there are no large animals in the area, or there is evidence of other people at the scene (e.g. footprings), interrogate the teen. She was not attacked, so she might have been the accomplice, or knew the attacker.
Check other reports to see if natural explanations were ruled out, or if same people were involved (if so, it's a role-playing gang) Chances are that there was not enough effort put in. Assume natural explanation. End of story.
answered 3 hours ago
Bald Bear
6,450825
+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
add a comment |
up vote
4
down vote
up vote
4
down vote
You have to realize that the cop is not likely to believe in supernatural, and will likely chalk it up to imagination, animal attacks, or maybe a teen gang pretending to be werewolfes. Or unrelated criminals using a local legend to conceal their killings.
If you really want the cop to take the teen seriously, make sure cop knows the teen personally (neighbor or family friend), and teen is not involved in drugs/gangs, or anime/fantasy.
Check if "friend" is indeed dead, i.e. if there is a body, or there is a missing person. I assume somebody is missing; otherwise the reporting teen is getting a psych.eval.
1.a If no body, assume the "victim" is a runaway child. File report to state troopers, or maybe check nearby train stations and bus/truck stops. Find nothing = End of story.
1.b If cop is willing and has time, go check the scene of the incident. If no blood there, get mad at teen. End of story.
If there is a body or bloody scene, check if injuries are consistent with an animal attack. If so, call Animal Control or whoever to determine what kind of animal was that. If the cop is willing to put extra effort, look for DNA from under victim's nails, or from hair strands around the scene. Then beg his supervisor for money to do a DNA test, or take sample to a friendly university professor. Then he will discover that DNA is human, or unknown, and will finally suspect something.
2.a If there are no large animals in the area, or there is evidence of other people at the scene (e.g. footprings), interrogate the teen. She was not attacked, so she might have been the accomplice, or knew the attacker.
Check other reports to see if natural explanations were ruled out, or if same people were involved (if so, it's a role-playing gang) Chances are that there was not enough effort put in. Assume natural explanation. End of story.
answered 3 hours ago
Bald Bear
6,450825
You have to realize that the cop is not likely to believe in supernatural, and will likely chalk it up to imagination, animal attacks, or maybe a teen gang pretending to be werewolfes. Or unrelated criminals using a local legend to conceal their killings.
If you really want the cop to take the teen seriously, make sure cop knows the teen personally (neighbor or family friend), and teen is not involved in drugs/gangs, or anime/fantasy.
Check if "friend" is indeed dead, i.e. if there is a body, or there is a missing person. I assume somebody is missing; otherwise the reporting teen is getting a psych.eval.
1.a If no body, assume the "victim" is a runaway child. File report to state troopers, or maybe check nearby train stations and bus/truck stops. Find nothing = End of story.
1.b If cop is willing and has time, go check the scene of the incident. If no blood there, get mad at teen. End of story.
If there is a body or bloody scene, check if injuries are consistent with an animal attack. If so, call Animal Control or whoever to determine what kind of animal was that. If the cop is willing to put extra effort, look for DNA from under victim's nails, or from hair strands around the scene. Then beg his supervisor for money to do a DNA test, or take sample to a friendly university professor. Then he will discover that DNA is human, or unknown, and will finally suspect something.
2.a If there are no large animals in the area, or there is evidence of other people at the scene (e.g. footprings), interrogate the teen. She was not attacked, so she might have been the accomplice, or knew the attacker.
Check other reports to see if natural explanations were ruled out, or if same people were involved (if so, it's a role-playing gang) Chances are that there was not enough effort put in. Assume natural explanation. End of story.
answered 3 hours ago
Bald Bear
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answered 3 hours ago
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+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
add a comment |
+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
+1 and deleted my own answer simply for the tree breakdown format used here.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
Though you should emphasize that you would be researching from the perspective of trying to find the scientific truth shrouded and obscured by the fantastical lies/mis-observations.
– anon
3 hours ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
LOL @ " ...or anime/fantasy." Since I'm not a cop I cant fully imagine all the experiences that would color their prejudice. However since you mention this I can only imagine the colorful interactions that took place to cause this to be a prejudice.
– anon
39 mins ago
add a comment |
up vote
2
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There is no standard protocol, and this question seems very story-based.
What matches the most a standard protocol actually used by police is dismissing the supernatural. Investigator (or police chief) would stick with rational explanations until the bitter end (and in many works of fiction we can see how it unfolds).
The other, less likely scenario, is that police is for whatever reason convinced that something is going on, and asks for help from outside experts (and, luckily, some werewolf expert will come to help).
answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
17.6k42969
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
There is no standard protocol, and this question seems very story-based.
What matches the most a standard protocol actually used by police is dismissing the supernatural. Investigator (or police chief) would stick with rational explanations until the bitter end (and in many works of fiction we can see how it unfolds).
The other, less likely scenario, is that police is for whatever reason convinced that something is going on, and asks for help from outside experts (and, luckily, some werewolf expert will come to help).
answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
17.6k42969
add a comment |
up vote
2
down vote
up vote
2
down vote
There is no standard protocol, and this question seems very story-based.
What matches the most a standard protocol actually used by police is dismissing the supernatural. Investigator (or police chief) would stick with rational explanations until the bitter end (and in many works of fiction we can see how it unfolds).
The other, less likely scenario, is that police is for whatever reason convinced that something is going on, and asks for help from outside experts (and, luckily, some werewolf expert will come to help).
answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
17.6k42969
There is no standard protocol, and this question seems very story-based.
What matches the most a standard protocol actually used by police is dismissing the supernatural. Investigator (or police chief) would stick with rational explanations until the bitter end (and in many works of fiction we can see how it unfolds).
The other, less likely scenario, is that police is for whatever reason convinced that something is going on, and asks for help from outside experts (and, luckily, some werewolf expert will come to help).
answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
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edited 3 hours ago
answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
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answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
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answered 3 hours ago
Alexander
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Such claims are already rampant in most jurisdiction starting with bigfoot. More likely to write him off as another junkie prankster.
– anon
4 hours ago
1
Hi Alexis. I'm afraid your original question was pretty broad and open ended for Worldbuilding. We specialized in specific questions with well defined answers. The re-written question does just that, while hopefully still asking for the information that you want.
– kingledion
4 hours ago
Hey Alexis, welcome to the site! You can find a pretty good example of what mortal authorities might well do when confronted by the supernatural in the Dresden Files books by Jim Butcher. The short version is that there is a motley crew of cops that are stubborn, problematic, or just plain weird and they tend to get assigned to a crap division until something happens that justifies them getting fired. That small group catches all the crap cases which is going to include supernatural stuff.
– Paul TIKI
2 hours ago
Do you want specifically reactions to werewolf, or do you want reactions to supernatural in general? If you want more along the lines of "What could they do about something truly supernatural?" then you might want to change the example from werewolf to something not so easily dealt with. As it is, they could just go out to investigate, find a wolf, shoot it, case closed as a normal non-supernatural (even if it actually was supernatural) case.
– Aaron
1 hour ago