My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 215

“The law is enforced in a way that holds corrupt individuals accountable rather than corrupt groups. The problem is, there’s almost no planning or defense against the collective intelligence of these corrupt groups.”

Because of that, modern law is fundamentally quite vulnerable to group crimes like corruption.

“Um, is that so?”

“Yes.”

“For example, let’s say a school board is corrupt. It’s impossible to eradicate that board. Current laws target only the chairman of the board, and the board desperately protects the chairman.

It’s essentially a fight between the laws of South Korea and the board, but even if you win, you can only punish a very small number of people, including the chairman, and the board itself cannot be punished.

As a result, the board continues to operate the school, and the chairman, after serving his sentence, regains power, and corruption continues.

And that ultimately leads to the school’s closure, resulting in damage to numerous students and faculty who attended it.

“More than 90% of the schools that have failed in Korea go through this process.”

Did the number of students decrease? Even so, if the school could maintain its competitiveness, there would be no reason to close it.

“Korean law focuses on individual crimes rather than organizations. The reality is that it can hardly touch organizations.”

Of course, it’s not that there’s no way at all, but it’s looser than punishing individual crimes.

“Why is a bucket of chicken over 20,000 won [approximately $15 USD]?”

Chicken companies have been engaging in obvious collusion for decades, but without an internal report, they can’t be punished. They make hundreds of billions of won every year through decades of collusion, but even if the collusion is caught, the fine is only a few hundred million won, so it would be foolish not to collude.

“Not to mention, illegal organizations are completely outside of control.”

Of course, it’s not that there are no regulations to punish violent organizations. The problem is that in order to secure and punish them, police force must be deployed, but South Korea has almost no experience with deploying police force in these extreme violent organizations and anti-social areas.

“South Korea has no experience in deploying police force in anti-social areas?”

“No, not even once. Korea has strong dissatisfaction with the police force, but at the same time, it is a country that cooperates with the police.”

The dissatisfaction is about the incompetence and corruption of the police, not about the police work itself.

Naturally, the police can carry out administrative work more easily than they think.

“How many areas are there where you risk your life every time you patrol, like in other countries?”

It’s not a joke, but many countries would be horrified if they knew how many police officers die during patrol duties.

In Korea, rather than directly resisting the police force, they corrupt the local police and make them as depraved as themselves. It’s no exaggeration to say that there are no cases of direct resistance.

Even Shinan, which is notorious for its poor public safety, doesn’t openly glare at and threaten the police.

“Daerim-dong is almost the only area that resists the police force.”

Moreover, it’s the first time that a group has actively used force against the police.

“Really? No, there were many nationwide organizations before, right?”

“There were many nationwide organizations. But those guys have already gone legit [become legal businesses]. Of course, it’s not that there weren’t organizations with the size to stand up to the police, but that was in the past. Back then, it was a dictatorship, so there were no trials or anything.”

Back then, if you openly confronted the police? It was a time when they could shoot you in the head and no one could say anything.

If the police wrote a report saying that someone was suspicious or a communist and sent it up, they would be dragged to Namsan [a location infamous for torture during the dictatorship] and tortured to death.

“Ironically, one of the things that the Korean dictatorship did well was the eradication of criminal organizations.”

“Is it not the same in other countries?”

“In other countries, to be honest, dictatorial regimes often collude with criminal organizations.”

However, in Korea’s case, after the coup, they used the card of war on crime to secure the legitimacy of the regime, and thanks to that card, criminal organizations on a nationwide scale were completely wiped out.

The reason why most of the nationwide organizations that exist now are more like legitimized companies than criminal organizations like in the past is because of that.

“Before the war on crime, South Korea was the largest drug producer in East Asia.”

“Really? It was that bad?”

“Yes.”

Even if it was a show with strong political motives, it is clear that such actions greatly helped South Korea’s public safety.

Before that, it was common for women to be kidnapped in broad daylight and sold to brothels.

“I told you before about the changes in the entertainment industry, right?”

“Yes, you did.”

“It’s the same with criminal organizations.”

Before that, they were extremely hostile to the police and did not hesitate to threaten them. But after that incident, Korean criminal organizations began to become pro-power.

Local small organizations are one thing, but nationwide criminal organizations began to operate in a form that worked under powerful people, and surprisingly, they began to cooperate with the police.

“Scenes of two criminal organizations wielding steel pipes and sashimi knives in nightclubs disappeared after the 80s.”

The reason is that during the war on crime, if you messed with the police, you would be dragged away and treated like a communist and subjected to all kinds of torture.

Even if it was a simple crime, if you wrote just one line in the report saying, ‘It is suspected that they were ordered by North Korea to induce social chaos,’ that person would become a fool and have to crawl out of the bottom.

“As a result, the Korean police have too little experience with criminal organizations that are hostile to them.”

The same is true for this situation.

“Then what should we do this time? We won’t be able to do anything like this…”

“First, we need to find the boss. To not even investigate, geez.”

Gangryong Group is a powerful organization that dominates Daerim-dong. But the police records don’t even show who the boss of that Gangryong Group is.

“The problem is that the entire area is hostile to the police, so we can’t even get minimal information.”

“Organization?”

“Ah, didn’t you learn about profiling criminal organizations?”

“It’s not that I didn’t learn it at all, but I didn’t learn it in detail, right?”

“Well, what they teach at school is basically based on violent crimes.”

In the case of organizational crimes or fraud, etc., crimes that are not directly related to human life, schools tend to teach them a little carelessly.

Of course, the police have no intention of hiring enough profilers. Moreover, the people they hire are first put into urgent murder cases and violent cases, so they only teach knowledge related to violent cases that can be used immediately in the field.

‘What will happen this time?’

Before his regression, Park Do-joon repeatedly requested profiles of other crimes and a sufficient number of profilers, but the police thoroughly ignored his opinions.

He knows the reason.

‘Those damn police university line guys.’

People think that if there are more profilers and they help with the investigation, they will be able to catch criminals easily. That’s actually true.

However, the reason why the police rejected that strategy was because the existing solid police university line was afraid of the profiler line’s counterattack.

Previously, the police department had no particular line other than the police university line and hired people through exams, but profilers definitely had a line, and there were many people who were better than the police university graduates in terms of performance and skills, so they only focused on suppressing their power.

“The collapse of a violent organization is useless no matter how much you catch from the bottom.”

“I learned that. In a violent organization, the lower ranks are treated as replaceable consumables anyway, and in some cases, they are even subject to disposal, right?”

“That’s right. So the best way to dismantle a violent organization is to arrest or eliminate the higher-ups.”

In the case of eliminating the higher-ups, violent organizations almost always break out into infighting. The punishment for violent organizations is so strong that those who have been punished in that way are mostly powerless old men by the time they come out, and due to the lack of loyalty in violent organizations, there are no loyal organizations that wait for the existing boss for decades.

Of course, in some cases, for example, if they have absolute secrets necessary for the operation of the company after it has gone legit, such as Swiss secret accounts, most of them choose to fend for themselves when the higher-ups disappear.

“In most of those cases, they break out into infighting, which ultimately leads to the organization splitting up.”

If you’re lucky, they fight each other and become crippled, and if you’re unlucky, they split up at a moderate level, causing all sorts of complicated problems.

Of course, that’s when the organization is most vulnerable, and if the police raid the organization at that time, they will be helplessly털려 [a Korean slang term for being thoroughly defeated] because there is no unified control line.

“All organizations are in the form of a pyramid. Especially criminal organizations have that form even more.”

Conversely, removing the top dog from a pyramid-shaped organization is the best way to win a war.

“The problem is that we don’t know who the boss of Gangryong Group is.”

Gangryong Group is threatening, but there is no way to approach them. It is difficult to approach them secretly, and in the case of Gangryong Group, the area is so tightly controlled that it is impossible for the police to investigate.

“The police in the last case didn’t really approach anything either.”

The police officer who died in the last case did not threaten Gangryong Group or enter into an important secret of Gangryong Group. He just got involved with Gangryong Group while approaching the case.

Nevertheless, he was murdered, so there is no reason for the local police to try to investigate Gangryong Group.

“There’s definitely something strange about that.”

“There’s something strange?”

“Yes, I need to check it out.”

It’s not certain. But there are still strange parts.

“First, you organize the cases so far and see if there’s anything that can identify the culprit. I’ll look into the rest.”

“Won’t it be dangerous?”

“Well, I don’t look like a dangerous person to anyone.”

Park Do-joon shrugged and said.

Summer is hot. And in that hot summer, Chinese people have their own way of cooling off. That’s walking around with their stomachs exposed.

Especially in China, lower-class men don’t see it as strange to walk around with their stomachs exposed in the middle of summer.

‘On the contrary, just looking at that, they don’t suspect that he’s Chinese.’

Just like in Korea, when you go to a nearby convenience store, you drag your slippers in your training clothes and go with your bare face, in China, you drag your slippers and stroll around in white underwear with your stomach exposed.

And no one thought he was a police officer.

“Give me a Big Corn, please.”

Park Do-joon was sitting in front of the entertainment district late at night. No one paid attention to Park Do-joon. There are so many men like that everywhere.

In fact, it’s not a big entertainment district. Since Koreans don’t come here in the first place, the Daerim-dong entertainment district is all business for Chinese people.

The problem is that most of the people who come here to work are not very rich.

So, they usually relieve their fatigue with a drink at a restaurant, and not many people come to a place where they can hang out with women like this.

‘And usually, the guys who come to places like this often are obvious [easily identifiable as troublemakers].’

As expected, a group of men were seen rushing in. And when they appeared, the people around them started to scatter, looking around.