Laws

Silver Sinspawn · Post by **Silver Sinspawn** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:16 am

Though it may seem like an obvious answer, does the Dragon Ball Universe actually have any laws? We see everyone commiting all kinds of crimes, including multiple murders, but no form of law enforcement ever seems to appear. Ever.

EDIT: Appear and actually do anything

Chuquita · Post by **Chuquita** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:24 am

I could've sworn I've seen police officers somewhere in the Saiyaman arc.

Gonstead · Post by **Gonstead** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:28 am

And I could of sworn there was this girl who was enlisted to help said police forces...

Mystic Gohan · Post by **Mystic Gohan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:50 am

Gonstead wrote:And I could of sworn there was this girl who was enlisted to help said police forces...

That would be videl, satan's daughter. The only crime i noticed was in the saiyaman saga.

linkdude20002001 · Post by **linkdude20002001** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:58 am

Gokuh got a police officer in West City to take him to Bulma's house.

Gonstead · Post by **Gonstead** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:59 am

Mystic Gohan wrote:
Gonstead wrote:And I could of sworn there was this girl who was enlisted to help said police forces...
That would be videl, satan's daughter. The only crime i noticed was in the saiyaman saga.

I know who she is, I was just playing along with what the previous poster said.

Michsi · Post by **Michsi** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:02 am

When 17 and 18 rob a store, we see a police car go after them.

Also, Piccolo Daimao wanted abolish all law inforcement so that crime would go unpunished.

Eire · Post by **Eire** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:31 am

Policemen are also in GT, trying to rescue kidnapped Goku and in DB chasing Lunch.
I wouldn't say that "everybody commit multiple crimes". We see selected part of the world centred around superheroes whose problems and methods of solving them can't be representative for whole society:) Most of their adventures on Earth took place in wastelands or involved powerful criminals who wouldn't be glad to see any officials around.
Hoverer I wonder about the gap between highly developed cities where police and other forces are seen, and villages like that from where Oolong kidnapped young girls. How could it happen that they didn't contact any authorities? Even the cause sounds odd someone should investigate disappearance of several young girls.

dbgtFO · Post by **dbgtFO** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:49 am

Policemen were chasing Lunch for robbing banks.

Of course there are laws to uphold in the DB World, that's the whole point of Piccolo making law enforcement illegal in the first place.

dprez · Post by **dprez** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:59 pm

Silver Sinspawn wrote:Though it may seem like an obvious answer, does the Dragon Ball Universe actually have any laws? We see everyone commiting all kinds of crimes, including multiple murders, but no form of law enforcement ever seems to appear. Ever.

You must've missed a few episodes or just don't recall certain scenes.

dbboxkaifan · Post by **dbboxkaifan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:03 pm

There's police here and there on Dragon Ball World but they're pretty much pointless, even more than Kuririn or Yamucha.

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:00 pm

There are police all over the series, actually. Like, too many instances to count. Not that they're usually very effective.

CobraCookiez · Post by **CobraCookiez** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:57 pm

There are lots of police in the Dragonball universe. I mean, they're incompetent and useless but they're there.

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:13 pm

CobraCookiez wrote:There are lots of police in the Dragonball universe. I mean, they're incompetent and useless but they're there.

Then again, let's be fair. When a worldwide private army full of superhuman officers and Terminator-esque androids is among the least threatening things to crop up in your universe, what are you supposed to do?

dbboxkaifan · Post by **dbboxkaifan** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:40 pm

Cipher wrote:Then again, let's be fair. When a worldwide private army full of superhuman officers and Terminator-esque androids is among the least threatening things to crop up in your universe, what are you supposed to do?

Let the warriors battle out the foes, if they were to die (the police) in trying to defeat them it'd be pointless and tragic for the families.

Silver Sinspawn · Post by **Silver Sinspawn** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:13 pm

The real question is though, do they ever do anything?
Do the countless murders just go unpunished, or something?
In real life, police follow that shit up.

Cipher · Post by **Cipher** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:05 am

Silver Sinspawn wrote:The real question is though, do they ever do anything?
Do the countless murders just go unpunished, or something?
In real life, police follow that shit up.

What countless murders? And follow up how?

The Red Ribbons and Tao Pai Pai leave some random victims in their wake, but they're all wanted criminals to begin with. The next murders we see in the series are the handiwork of Tambourine and Piccolo, which were tied into a very public catastrophe and all the victims were subsequently restored to life.

Raditz killed farmer with shotgun, but ... um. Tough shit, I guess? That's a cold case for sure.

Nappa blows up a city, which the public apparently blames on the two pods. (In the anime, Yajirobe publicly reveals the presence of the Saiyans.)

Next we have the multiple people killed by Dr. Gero and #19 on Amembo Island, but again, cold case, and Cell appeared to national outcry later the same day. Ditto for the multiple people killed on the road during Vegeta and #18's fight (anime) or the lone truck driver Vegeta kills (manga and anime).

Then we have Cell's victims, which everyone was aware of and who were all revived.

We have the family killed by Babidi and co. when they set up their spaceship (were they revived?) and those killed by Majin Boo, which no one remembers anyway.

Presumably some people were killed during the whole Baby incident, but once again, that was a very public affair, and I think we're to assume one of the wishes on the Namekian Dragon Balls at the end of that arc revived them. (Including, maybe, the people killed in the city during his fight with Goten?) I guess he also killed some alien tourists in space, though, so maybe some space police should get on that.

The last set of victims are killed by either the villains who escaped from Hell or by the Evil Dragons, and they're jointly revived by Goku's final wish.

So, we might have a cop or two looking into the mysterious case of the farmer and the meteor and the appearance of Dr. Gero on Amembo Island at best.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:39 am

Goku beat up some police for trying to arrest a murdering bank robber.

That's why Lunch vanished. After she left the extralegal protection of the main cast, she was arrested and executed.

Silver Sinspawn · Post by **Silver Sinspawn** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:01 am

Fuck it, can someone delete this topic? I'm not getting the answers I need, and I doubt anyone actually things this is a good topic. All it's doing is lowering everyone's opinion of my intelligence.

Scarz · Post by **Scarz** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:07 am

Rocketman wrote:Goku beat up some police for trying to arrest a murdering bank robber.

That's why Lunch vanished. After she left the extralegal protection of the main cast, she was arrested and executed.

You're wrong, she escaped before they were able to execute her and she lived the rest of her life as a truck driver.

Secretly smuggling illegal weapons, I assume.

Silver Sinspawn wrote:Fuck it, can someone delete this topic? I'm not getting the answers I need, and I doubt anyone actually things this is a good topic

Plenty of people answered your question. Police exist in the Dragon Ball world then surely they're there to enforce something. They're just not very good at it.

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