Basic Trope: A law enforcement officer with the power to issue on-the-spot punishments.
- Straight: Enforcer H. Angus arrests the criminals of Neo-Stockton, tries them and passes sentence on the spot.
- Exaggerated: Enforcer H. Angus executes criminals on the spot be it for murder or littering. Sometimes, he'll bother to question them first.
- Downplayed:
- Enforcer H. Angus issues on-the-spot fines for littering, improper parking etc. which can't be argued in court.
- Enforcer Hangus handles the proceeding of cases, arrests, and carrying out of sentences but he still needs to convene a jury before judgement where they may interrogate both him and the accused and may exile him if they find him a cure worse than the disease.
- Justified: It's a dystopian future where crime rates are high and budgets are limited. To both save resources and appear tough on crime, the government decided to "simplify" the justice procedure and deal with the problem swiftly and efficiently, rights be damned.
- Inverted: There is far greater separation of powers than would be normally possible. Law enforcement cannot so much as detain to ask questions of anyone without a two-sided court case with juries. It is only possible due to a Computerized Judicial System who themselves lack the ability to so much as move a pencil - a more extreme version of a separation of powers. Furthermore, uploaded dead provide a jury to the A.I.s.
- Subverted: H. Angus is arrested for being a Corrupt Cop and Police Brutality in taking the law into his own hands — there are separate courts and prison systems that he attempted to bypass.
- Double Subverted: H. Angus gets off scott-free in a Kangaroo Court as the courts are as corrupt as he.
- Parodied:
- H. Angus arrests the criminals of Neo-Stockton, attempts to try them, but can't, because he keeps skipping out on Jury Duty.
- H. Angus carries around sock puppets to fulfill all the roles in the court.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Neo-Stockton has a normal judiciary.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Neo-Stockton's law enforcement deposes the government and does away with the judicial system so that they have complete autonomy on how to deal with criminals.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The state insists on having separate systems for the arrest, trial, and carrying out of sentences.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: The law enforcement officers have effectively a complete autonomy to mete out punishments on whoever they manage to get their hands on, whether or not the convicted are actually guilty. This results in a Might Makes Right anarchy, as law and justice become meaningless, and the rest of the population feel justified in striking first. Crime rates skyrocket, and a war breaks out between the law enforcement and the people, destroying the entire city.
- Reconstructed: The recruitment screening for law enforcement officers are tightly regulated, and the potential applicants must demonstrate moral uprightness and compassion before they are given the right to arrest and punish criminals.
Back to Judge, Jury, and Executioner to receive your verdict. Guilty! [Bang]
