Chapter 851: Hancheng Strategy (V)
Naturally, there was no need to go with so many people. Jack took note of the other party's number and still teamed up with Clay to go together. The others also had their own arrangements.
Alice stayed behind to continue digging up Grayson Ferber's background information, while Jubal and others went to the police station to follow up on the latest investigation progress in the murder of Barbara Walker from the UK two weeks ago.
Clay was still driving, and Jack sat in the passenger seat to guide the way. Seoul is a city built on mountains. Although it is not as steep as the mountain city of Chongqing, the various slopes are also extremely annoying.
Although Jack was new here, he could at least recognize the road signs. However, after three detours and two detours, he was blocked before reaching his destination.
"It looks like something happened up ahead." Seeing that the intersection near the agreed-upon location was completely blocked, Clay simply pulled over and got out of the car with Jack and walked.
Both of them were tall, and they could see what was going on inside from a distance. The incident occurred at a convenience store on the corner of the street. There was a young man wearing a hospital gown at the door brandishing a sharp knife. Confronted with several people.
Jack and Clay were in a good location. The intersection they were at was facing the convenience store across the street, so they could have a panoramic view of everything.
There was blood on the knife, and the young man's hospital gown was also stained with blood, but the blood did not seem to be his. There was an ambulance parked next to the convenience store, and two emergency medical personnel were dressing an uncle's wound beside the car.
"What happened?" Clay didn't know anything about Korean. When Jack asked the crowd about the situation with a smile, he could only stand aside and stare.
"Consumida." Jack thanked the talkative aunt very politely and turned to tell Clay the information he had just learned.
The injured uncle was the owner of a convenience store. A mentally ill young man with a knife appeared from nowhere. After stabbing the owner, he blocked the door of the convenience store.
There was also a mother and daughter in the convenience store, the shop owner's wife and his college-educated daughter. Although they were not injured for the time being, they were obviously very frightened. They were blocked in the store and kept screaming.
The three plainclothes detectives who had just arrived were confronting the psychopath at the entrance of the convenience store. Now the roads in all four directions of the intersection were blocked by police cars.
In addition to the three criminal police officers, there were other police officers wearing white-striped black vests who were working hard to maintain order at the scene. Watching the excitement was a common practice all over the world. The onlookers kept pushing forward as if they were not afraid of life and death. These police officers were very embarrassed.
"They're just... dealing with a madman like this?" Clay felt a little unbelievable, because the three plainclothes detectives who confronted the mental patient were all bare-handed and timid and did not dare to step forward. They only dared to shout loudly from a distance.
"Well" Jack's expression was also a little hard to explain.
Today's Korean police are aggrieved and useless. Just give a few examples to understand. Once, a mentally ill man armed with a knife tried to attack the police. He was knocked down and handcuffed by electric shock. He died five months later, and the police station paid compensation. 320 million won (approximately US$230,000).
A warning shot was fired at the fleeing suspect. The suspect holding a sharp knife fell down and stabbed himself in the thigh with the knife in his hand. The police station paid another 78 million won (US$56,000) in compensation.
Of course, in addition to South Korea's unique prosecutor system, the reason for this result is also due to the dark history of the South Korean police itself. From Lee X-wan, Park X-hee to Quan Xiaojiang, these three poisoners The most powerful internal iron fist is the South Korean military and police.
Therefore, after the so-called banboization, the Korean police were deprived of many powers and their status continued to decline.
If in a big Eastern country next door, the saying that the police must hit the legs before shooting is just a joke, then in South Korea this is clearly written in the rules and regulations.
Nowadays, even the issue of assaulting police officers has become a major cancer in South Korea, with nearly 20,000 cases a year. However, this number is only officially submitted, and there are many more assaults on police officers that are concealed due to the concerns of the parties concerned.
A large number of these concealed assaults on police officers were female police officers. Despite the extreme and widespread boxing movement in a large country in the universe, female police officers are still subject to great discrimination. In order to avoid further discrimination internally, many female police officers will Choosing to conceal the experience of being assaulted.
Of course, even when assaults on police are reported, most of them are not handled in any way, and those police officers who are attacked will even receive complaints from the suspects in turn.
Due to the pressure of public opinion, the most common approach of the upper-level police is to abandon the lower-level police officers who "caused the accident". This has resulted in the police suicide rate among South Korea's civil servants, which has always been at the top of the list.
Although the scene that appeared in front of Jack and Clay seemed so ridiculous, it was the most real status quo. After all, the words "useless" and "waste" are usually linked together.
The result of being abandoned and even despised by the entire society is the collective inaction of the Korean police. The situation is pretty good at the moment. At least these three plainclothes detectives dared to confront the suspect and prevent him from harming the mother and daughter in the convenience store. Although the effect was quite good. limited.
There have been more extreme cases. After the victim called the police, the two male and female police officers who arrived successively did nothing. In the end, the victim subdued the suspect by himself.
Clay was speechless. He rolled up his sleeves and was about to step forward to do something brave. Jack had no choice but to follow him, reminding him in a low voice behind him not to expose his sidearm.
South Korean society is extremely sensitive to police shootings. Although they are from the FBI in the United States, the current situation is not within their jurisdiction. The random use of guns is likely to be exaggerated by the media into a public opinion storm.
As a typical diode society, it kneels down to the powerful while advocating equality and national self-confidence. If someone runs to the Blue House to cut off his fingers, it will easily get out of control.
Although the South Korean authorities have always been unable to deal with the big-headed soldiers who committed crimes in the "bodyguard country", let alone the FBI, the team members are likely to be recalled to the country to calm public opinion.
If the first case fails because of this kind of thing, the Bombardier business jet that is about to be transformed at the Canadian aircraft factory will cry.
"Who are you?" A horse-faced man who had just arrived at the scene and was shouting stopped the two men.
"FBI, Agent Jack Tavola, this is my colleague, Agent Clay Spencer." Jack handed his ID to the horse-faced man who seemed to be in charge, because the detectives who had just confronted the mentally ill called him the squad leader.
The squad leader is almost equivalent to the level of the black-faced Superintendent Gray when Jack first entered the LAPD. Judging from the situation at the scene, he should be the one who has the most say here.
"Huh?" The horse-faced squad leader, who was wearing a blue striped POLO shirt on the upper body, beige trousers with a thin belt on the lower body, and the POLO shirt was tightly tucked into the trousers. He only needed a keychain hanging on his waist. He was dressed like a middle-aged uncle. He slapped his forehead in shock and couldn't speak clearly.
"Is it the FBI in the United States? The FBI of Fbi Waring?"
"You speak standard Korean."
"Hey, do you recruit people according to idol standards in the FBI?"
When the plainclothes detectives confronting the mentally ill heard Jack and Clay, who were wearing black suits and white shirts, introduce themselves, they forgot what they were doing and came over to talk to them.