Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20141105004552

Weiss once spoke of this in Vol. 1.

The innocent never run, as they have nothing to hide. It's the guilty that run for fear of getting caught.

Myself I don't agree with this way of thinking. How many times have we seen movies, read stories, or heard of criminals who've known they were being framed? They sometimes run in order to prevent themselves from being caught and given an unfair trail. Or to discover and out the person who was framing them.

In RWBY I believe there may be a lot of that going on in the shadows. The Faunus in and outsideof the White Fangs are seen as scapegoats who crime takes place. If not them the Grimm when it's a violent crime. I wonder how many lazy have ruined hard working cops' cases by assuming the easiest answer to a criminal act (like the break in investigation where the cops talk about not being paid enough instead of the case, or how Torch had on his map locales of where dumb cops patroled, implying he could do more hiest out there and more easily get away with it). Could it be that the police department and maybe even the military could be an area that has gotten so lacked it's the real catalyst for why the villains have been so successful as of late?

My question is, does anyone think it's possible that the higher-up of the city could be the true masterminds behind Cinder and Torchwick's success? All of this is happening in one city one week after another, yet it took quite a while before any big arrests were made (big arrests as in a ring leader instead of a flunky).  