User blog comment:CROAgent/Out of proportion/@comment-5999656-20140714035724

I actually see your point. If Beacon is as prestigious as we can assume (think RWBY equivalent of our top Ivies) then it's probably been around for a long time, very possibly hundreds of years. In that case, there should be hundreds of fully qualified Hunters out there in the world who are more qualified than newbie team RWBY to take on the White Fang.

But I do think the police will be useless, just because this is an action story, and like most stories where the protagonists aren't police, law enforcement always shows up after the enemy is defeated/run away, or they show up just to shoot a little and be useless against the enemy.

IDK, this show's about team RWBY, so all the other Hunters will be mysteriously gone, OR there's a shady reason for their absence. Maybe they're preparing for total war?

Or it could just be that there are so many Grimm still in Remnant that the Hunter forces are too busy being deployed elsewhere to contain the threat of darkness.

Good point though, I've been wondering about this same topic for a while.