My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 35

“To be exact, they’re from the Sunni branch, but that’s not important. What’s important is that he was a Muslim. And a very devout one at that.”

“But what does that have to do with working in Korea? Allah didn’t tell him not to work in Korea, did he?”

“Well, this is just a guess, but I don’t think he committed the sin willingly. That’s why he wanted atonement so desperately.”

“To the point of killing someone?”

Lee Yeon-jeong tilted her head, looking puzzled, and Park Do-joon nodded in agreement.

“Probably.”

“What sin did he commit?”

“Pork.”

“Pork? Out of the blue?”

“That’s why they say you have to learn profiling by region.”

Realistically, profiling techniques must be completely different because each culture is different.

Even if basic psychology and behavior patterns are similar, when you dig deeper, each country and region has different cultures, so profiling is meaningless unless you take that culture into account.

For example, what would happen if a Korean profiler went to Iraq to profile? Nothing would come of it.

In Korea, murder is taboo and recognized as a very serious crime, but in Iraq, there is less aversion to murder, and there is a culture in which self-justification is given due to religious issues, so the results are completely different.

The country that kills its own daughter in the name of honor killing, even if the daughter is raped, is Iraq.

If you profile in Korea, the person who killed her was probably the perpetrator who held a grudge against the report, but in Iraq, the first person you should suspect is the father.

“But Koreans don’t know that very well. Especially people in rural areas. Well, there are many cases where they don’t want to know.”

“Why pork?”

“Islam forbids pork. They say that if you eat it, you’re going straight to hell, not just avoiding it.”

“Going to hell?”

“Yeah.”

It doesn’t matter whether you eat it voluntarily or forcibly. The moment you eat pork, a Muslim is confirmed to go to hell.

“But there are quite a few Muslims who eat pork…”

“The level of belief varies from religion to religion. Not all Muslims are the same.”

In fact, there are many people who believe in Islam but eat pork or drink alcohol. As a joke, there is a saying that the reason why there are so many yachts in Saudi Arabia is to drink alcohol.

Alcohol is prohibited in Saudi Arabia, but they don’t bother to catch people who go out on a boat and drink.

In other words, the rich go out to the high seas by boat and drink.

“Buddhism tells you to stay away from meat, but Buddhists eat everything, right?”

In other words, it is a personal choice to what extent you accept it depending on the strength of your belief.

“But if he is suspected of dying in ISIS [Islamic State of Iraq and Syria], the fact that he joined the group itself means that he has extreme tendencies.”

“Do you judge that simply by that? But can such an extreme person come to Korea to work?”

“Maybe it was because of that village chief.”

The village chief is a human being who doesn’t know how to respect people. He probably exploited people like crazy.

Islam has a fasting period called Ramadan [a month of fasting and spiritual reflection]. Of course, it’s not really starving, and all eating is possible after sunset.

But the village chief and his gang would never have allowed that.

“You know, there are guys who force you to drink, saying that even if you can’t drink, your alcohol tolerance will increase as you drink, right?”

“Ah, there was a guy like that when I was in college. He almost killed someone.”

Some people may simply not like alcohol, but others may be allergic to alcohol.

But those guys just think that everyone can drink because they know how to drink, and if they don’t drink, they raise their voices as if they are ignoring them and force the other person to drink.

“Yeah, so there were a lot of power trips.”

If you vomit while drinking, they drag you in and force you to drink. If you pass out, they slap you in the face to wake you up and make you drink.

They talk about friendship, but the reality is that the purpose is to imprint their power on the other person.

In fact, such incidents occur more often between seniors and juniors than between friends.

“Replace that with pork.”

“Ah, I see. You mean they forced him to eat it?”

“Probably. They would have used tricks. There are actually guys like that sometimes. There have been many cases where religious disputes have broken out because of that.”

In Korea, pork is a common food and one of the most comfortable meats to eat. But Islam has nailed it down that if you eat it, you go to hell. Even if you eat it by force.

“But what if you tricked him into eating pork?”

“Oh, um… If he’s a devout Muslim… it would be a disaster.”

“It’s a disaster.”

It’s as shocking as forcing a churchgoer to kill someone and saying, ‘You’re going straight to hell now.’

“Maybe the village chief laughed it off, judging by his personality.”

Because he’s just a guy who can be fired, and he can bring in workers anytime.

So he probably tricked him into eating pork and laughed at Alma Segar, who was in despair.

“Then atonement is…?”

“It’s not atonement for killing the village chief and his gang. It’s atonement for putting pork in his mouth.”

Then what’s the way? That’s none other than jihad [a holy war fought by Muslims].

“You said that if you put pork in your mouth, you’re guaranteed to go to hell?”

“Yeah, guaranteed to go to hell.”

“But how do you atone for that?”

“According to Islamic law, you go to heaven if you die in jihad.”

“Ah!”

He has already put pork in his mouth. Then the way to atone for that is to wage jihad in the most powerful way.

“Will you go to hell for eating pork, or will you go to heaven by dying in jihad…?”

“In terms of law, is there room for extenuating circumstances or something?”

“Exactly.”

Pork was eaten by force, but jihad is a voluntary act of giving up one’s life.

“So you’re saying that’s why the senior tried to commit suicide.”

“Yeah.”

Because he wouldn’t want to go to hell.

Alma Segar probably didn’t even think about coming back alive from Iraq.

“But still, there’s no way, right? How can someone who died two months ago put pesticides in the food people eat?”

“That’s the problem. That’s why we’re going.”

“Like you said before, putting pesticides in the pot…?”

“That’s impossible. But they did use it sometimes.”

So they used something else to kill people.

“The side dishes have been inspected, right?”

“Yeah, there was nothing special except for the spicy fish stew.”

In the end, they put poison in the spicy fish stew, but Park Do-joon couldn’t figure out how.

“In the end, we have to figure out how to get acquitted.”

“That’s right.”

A way to put pesticides in advance four months ago. We can’t know the truth until we find out.

“Senior, I really don’t understand.”

“Why are the police so desperate to make the case guilty? No, it’s not like they’re doing a good job. When you sue them, they don’t even accept the case?”

“That’s because of performance.”

“Performance?”

“Yeah, performance.”

The police’s performance processing method is determined by how much they investigate the case and send it to prosecution. In other words, if you investigate a case and send it to prosecution with a guilty verdict, that becomes your performance.

“The problem is that the indictment rate of the case is the performance, so realistically, if an acquittal comes out, it’s worse than doing nothing.”

If an acquittal comes out, you spend time and have no performance.

As a result, the police naturally investigate all cases with the purpose of indictment.

The cases they acquit are mostly when there is no evidence to the point where there is no answer.

“But considering that, they refuse to accept the case investigation from the beginning?”

“Did you feel that?”

“Even when I, a lawyer, go, there are guys who talk nonsense. They say this is not a crime?”

“That’s also because of performance.”

“Yes? You said you indict because of performance?”

“This kind of case has a huge performance. But most of the cases that people sue don’t have much performance.”

Of course, there are large cases such as fraud worth billions of won or group assault, but realistically, most of them are small cases that don’t produce even a tiny bit of performance.

“Even lawyers are like that. Do you want to be a public defender who gets 500,000 won per case? Or do you want to handle a corporate case that pays hundreds of millions of won for just one case?”

“Um, ah, I can relate.”

“Penny-pinching? You have to be diligent. Cops are human too.”

Because they want to increase their performance without working, they unconditionally make cases that become performance guilty and send them, and they refuse to accept cases that do not become performance compared to time.

“Why do taxi drivers wait for long distances in front of the station?”

Some taxi drivers do not try to pick up passengers properly and waste time waiting only for long distances.

Then they whine that there are no passengers.

But realistically, in this day and age when many people call taxis with their cell phones, it is safe to say that there are no cases where there are no passengers.

“It’s not that there are no passengers. It’s that there are no passengers who can make money easily.”

Most passengers try to move around in the city, and driving in the city consumes a lot of gas and is tiring for the driver because they have to stop and go repeatedly.

On the other hand, long distances mostly take the highway, so driving is comfortable, uses less gas, and is even more expensive because of the intercity surcharge.

“So they’re not working hard, they’re aiming for a big hit.”

“It’s like yeot [Korean taffy, also slang for ‘fuck it’].”

“The world is originally like yeot.”

Having hope in the world while being a profiler? That’s bullshit.

‘I just hope it doesn’t get worse.’

No matter how much you catch them, the number of crazy people is increasing, and the world is becoming more and more comfortable for crazy people to live in.

There are plenty of ways to harm others and gain benefits on the Internet, but they package it as the wisdom of life.

They are stingy with people, make absurd claims, and are full of elitism, claiming to be people with enlightened ideas.

‘Sometimes I wondered what I was really doing.’

In a way, it’s natural. Because he’s a profiler. Just as policemen are not needed if good stories are not on the news and firefighters are not needed if there are no fires, he is needed because there is crime.

A Profiler’s Calling