https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/ ... bbc.uknews
An issue just asking "is police racism bad?" seemed too obvious and one dimensional to me, so I've left it entirely ambiguous in this issue as to whether NAME's police forces are actually racist. The movie references in this will likely be entirely missed by anyone under the age of 35, so I've made them pretty heavy handed. Couldn't resist it, really.
TITLE:
Undercover Cop Arrested
VALIDITY:
Police and free press exist
ADULT
DESCRIPTION:
Police and press are at loggerheads, after an undercover journalist joined the @@ANIMAL@@ City Police Academy, with the intent of uncovering and secretly filming evidence of institutional racism. The police have arrested the journalist, and want to see him prosecuted.
OPTION 1
"Deception was employed to obtain pecuniary advantage, and that's very, very, very bad," asserts Commandant George Lassard, who is speaking from behind a wooden podium, and keeps making odd facial expressions at you. "Many, many public funds were wasted training this very, very bad individual, and thanks to him a genuine recruit has lost their chance to join the force. This is unethical journalism at its very, very worst, and many, many charges need to be levelled here. Oh god, yes. YES."
OUTCOME:
journalists found to be in possession of Groucho glasses are arrested on espionage charges
OPTION 2
"Look, I had a credible private source telling me there was racism in the academy, and it was in the public interest to investigate," reports journo Steve Mahoney, emerging suddenly next to the Commandant from some unseen location. "That I didn't find any doesn't matter -- the free press has a duty to challenge authority, to speak truth to power and to employ subterfuge when we deem it in the public interest. The powers-that-be can't be allowed to arrest someone who is holding them to account! That's the path to totalitarianism!"
OUTCOME:
government aides are surprising attentive to their ministers' every word
OPTION 3
"You know, this whole undercover thing has potential, if we turn it around," murmurs obsequious police lieutenant G. W. Harris, leading you to one side. "You should be placing police infiltrators in media organisations, to report back to you on what they're up to. If they're being subversive, or if they're planning further hijinks like this Mahoney fellow did... well, you just give a little nod, and your problems will quietly disappear."
OUTCOME:
when @@LEADER@@ coughs everyone around backs away nervously