Chapter 18, Page 28
Pallad City Police Department // Central Database
Officer Login: Madison Wynter
Case Reports
[File #7899-B1] Case Status: CLOSED
Evidence of multiple murders on Volkan Island, perpetrated by Dr. Beverly Hastings. Witnessed acts of illegal genetic/biological experimentation. Possible megacorporation coverup.
Note: I don’t care what CSI claims. There wasn’t an accidental chemical explosion, we were not exposed to Xlycon 14 gas, and I sure as hell didn’t imagine the whole thing! This case needs to be reopened! – Madison Wynter
[File #6930-F1] Case Status: CLOSED
TOTO Unit [MK-III Serial #093847329] escaped transport while being shipped to manufacturer for decommission. Did not respond to remote deactivation code. A.I. was possibly corrupted due to lack of maintenance and known cerebral-core issues. TOTO unit’s utanium power core was ruptured upon attempted retrieval. Resulting explosion left very few remains for analysis.
[File #7103-D5] Case Status: CLOSED
AROS tank intercepted on Deevox Highway. The tank’s A.I. was said to have gone ‘rogue’ after Net-link. Syren Industries claimed possession of the tank before any police analysis could be conducted. Syren cited legal protection due to “confidential corporate assets.” No further investigation is allowed.
Note: This is bullshit. That tank’s A.I. should have been examined by the Cyber Crime Division and our tech analysts. Megacorps should not be above the law! – Madison Wynter
[File #7954-A2] Case Status: Open
Syd Novok arrested for possession and attempted distribution of the drug Afterlife. Novok may be able to provide information on his supplier and/or contacts. Requesting to interrogate suspect when he returns from hospital for gunshot wound.
[File #8124-F3] Case Status: Open
ATUHM construction mech reported to have gone berserk, completely overriding manufacturer failsafes. Mech was disabled with A.I. core intact. Sent to Criminal Tech Division for further analysis.
Note: Ryft Industries is already tossing their legal team at the Department in hopes of retrieving the A.I. core before we find out anything. Typical. The TOTO and AROS cases may be linked with this one and that core is the only lead we have—we can’t turn it over to Ryft!
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Maybe if she wrote those reports, the city wouldn’t be going to shit. :p
Madison’s really pushing to get suspended, talking back at the Chief like that. Probably the only thing preventing that right now is that the department is so short-handed and she *IS* very good at what she does.
Actually, I’d say it looks like Madison is at the same level of Gripps as far as being a good employee. Sure she looks to be the most skilled in the physical aspects of the job but she is very lacking in the other aspects of the job. She has a big attitude problem, doesn’t do her reports, and has a problem with authority. That’s also not counting on her overworking herself to the point that she’s having sleeping issues
If anything, I think she’s pretty much well on her way to getting suspended if she keeps this behavior up
I get the feeling her attitude of late is very much a result of stress. Her problem with authority currently seems to be that explanations simply are not getting through to her, previously more that the explanations were bad passing-blame explanations that really shouldn’t be accepted.
She is not fit for work in the state she’s in, absolutely not, but if I was Hardiman I would not suspend her either. I think there is a high risk that she’ll go vigilante and work herself to death in short order if she is suspended (just look at Fantasy Funland arc!). My other best guess is that she’d go into depression and apathy, which would be better in the sense that she’d be not dead, but it would take a year or two before she could come back. Not the greatest outcome either. I’d want to find a way to get her to calm down and listen to her doctor! With that route she might be back in action in a month or two, much better.
However, I don’t really expect Hardiman to be thinking like I do. But maybe something along those lines, he certainly has the Fantasy Funland incident in mind in some way. Wouldn’t you be wary about suspending her again if the last time you did it she went with no backup, no partner, and got herself captured by a criminal?
I dunno about that, the fact that Madison has been going through partners like she’s changing clothes every day before Reena was assigned to her shows she has an attitude problem and seems incapable of working well with others.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Madison always gave the Chief an attitude when he gave her orders she didn’t like. The only thing that’s changed is that her sleep deprivation is messing with her emotional control and so she is losing her temper and is pretty much yelling at the chief instead of doing sarcastic comments and other such things. It would explain why she’s in the trouble maker department.
The idea that Madison is completely responsible for not keeping partners needs a second look. I carried a badge as a Federal Peace Officer for almost 25 years and over the last ten or so of them it became apparent that many new Officers, not all, but more than there should have been, were only interested in the paycheque and anything that made them do what they were paid to do was an inconvenience.
She takes her job seriously and that’s inconvenient to those who just want to do the absolute minimum, show no initiative or interest in working to prevent things from happening instead of waiting to take credit for someone else’s handling of it, so they find other places to be.
I’ve carried out two man patrols by myself because my ‘partner’ could’t drag himself away from his gameboy or the TV.
These last few generations are largely disinterested in anything that involves effort, yet they expect to be paid for doing nothing.
The sad part is that the majority of Senior officers and management are political appointees, placed in their poisitions not because of what they can do but because of what they will do.
Agreed, I don’t think Madison’s entirely at fault for not being able to keep a partner. From everything we’ve seen, the PCPD has a deficit of reliable officers and a dangerous shortage of dedicated ones. It makes me think some of Madison’s attitude with the Chief and other officers comes from a place of frustration rather than just a sour personality, especially with how committed she is to her work.
Madi’s problem is that the PCPD is corrupt from the top down