Accepted Murder

Chapter 6

Not long after the public murder’s the governments committed, businesses made a decision that would not only disgruntle the police force, but help the innocent. One by one, businesses in every country started removing their surveillance equipment, making the police incapable of finding somebody inside of a restaurant or a grocery store without prior witnesses. Needless to say, the police began trying to find ways that would force the companies to re-install the surveillance equipment. 

Staging a robbery would only work for so long, the police soon discovered, after robbing small restaurants across the world, and making those restaurant’s install cameras and whatever else needed to keep the money and equipment safe, business owners became aware of what the police had been doing, and closed off shop to the men in blue. Nearly everywhere an officer of the law tried to go was closed off to them because of their acts of selfishness. 

Upset, and hungry, the police were given no other option; they began hiring mindless thugs off the streets to do the muggings, not only telling them they could keep whatever profit they made from the heists’ but that the government would supply them with the necessary Protection Papers to keep them from being killed off by other broke criminals. 

But, like when the police themselves were committing the robberies, the information was leaked, and the businesses grew wiser to the facts. So, they did what they felt was best. It started with one restaurant in Sweden, after a particularly heinous act of arson, and the building was rebuilt. The owner, Hans Olin, a fifty year old man with the dreams of becoming one of the biggest chef’s in the world, wizened up when a police officer came to him telling him that there was nothing they could do about the criminals actions, for there had been no video evidence. 

Not to mention that the insurance refused to pay because there was no evidence that the man hadn’t done it himself. As if he’d burn down most of his own life savings for a little bit of insurance.

After a bit of a research, Hans realized that these criminals weren’t committing the crimes because they wanted to; after all, since when, aside from riots, do random crowds of convicts start attacking business’ all across the world? It was too much of a coincidence. So, he asked around, talked to a few druggies, and got his answer. They weren’t doing it for the fun in it; they were doing it because the police, the officers of the law, were bribing them. 

So, one day, he went into a store, bought a fake surveillance camera, a few of them actually, and placed them around his building. Pointing outwards at the streets, and at any entrance into his restaurant, so that the police would actually believe he caved into their demands. After the police walked around the building and saw the fake video cameras, nobody else even went new the restaurant with cruel intentions.

It took less than three months for other owners to realize the ‘coincidence’ in Mr. Olin’s situation, and so, they followed in his footsteps, finding that, they too, didn't have any problems with robberies or crimes anymore.

“Well?” Michael questioned the officer, seated across from him, “You called me here for a reason, right?”

The chief pleaded with herself that the man would just randomly drop dead so she wouldn’t have to deal with him, and his imbecile ways, “Yes, I did, Mr. Zander.” She murmured, picking a file folder up from her desk and opening it to read its contents, “It appears we may have a lead on your daughter.”

He narrowed his eyes, “And? What is it?”

“It appears that,” the Chief murmured, silently begging herself not to pull out her gun and shoot the man, “You daughter bought Protection Papers for four men that are in a band; Bill and Tom Kaulitz, Gustav Schafer, and Georg Listing. Do you recognize the names?” she questioned, lifting her eyes from the folder to look at him, “And do you know why she would buy the Protection Papers for four men she, we assume, has never actually met?”