My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 482

“I reported it, but they’re completely ignoring it.”

Here, ‘they’ refers to the police in charge.

“I understand, though.”

Police officers surprisingly dislike profilers. They don’t even like them internally, so why would they welcome an external one?

Even if he has police experience, they’ll treat him like a traitor and won’t listen.

“I don’t think they’ll request a profiler either.”

“Well, police don’t usually request profilers for these kinds of cases.”

They request profilers for murder or kidnapping cases, but many police officers are reluctant to request them for serial rape cases like this.

“What do you think, Team Leader Cha?”

“I’m not a team leader anymore, remember?”

“But you’re working as a team leader at Moonlight Law Firm anyway, right?”

“That’s true.”

Cha Dae-hoon chuckled. His title at Moonlight Law Firm is also team leader, though he doesn’t have any team members yet.

“I don’t think they have the ability to catch him.”

“What? Not covering it up?”

Lee Ji-soo, who had been listening quietly, tilted her head and asked. Often, in these cases, there’s pressure from higher-ups to prevent an arrest.

“I don’t think so. It’s already been on TV several times, and if the perpetrator were a celebrity’s son or the son of a powerful figure, he would have been identified by now. Besides, the patterns of sex crimes committed by those in power are a bit different.”

“Different?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head. Park Do-joon clicked his tongue.

“Well, you probably haven’t learned about the classification of rapists yet. They don’t teach you to classify them based on the perpetrator’s status in school, do they?”

“It varies depending on their status?”

Lee Ji-soo was surprised. Her professors had never mentioned that. But in practice, even with the same crime, the behavior patterns of perpetrators often differ depending on their social standing.

“Yes, to be precise… the identification of rapists taught in schools is standardized based on the most common profile.”

Roughly a socially isolated man in his 20s to 40s.

That’s the most common suspect in rape cases in academic settings. And it’s true that such individuals are generally involved in many rape cases.

“But that’s not the whole picture.”

The lower, middle, and upper classes have completely different motives, targets, and methods.

That’s what needs to be distinguished and taught in schools, but unfortunately, they don’t teach it. Even if they do, they only cover the lower class, neglecting methods for analyzing rape crimes committed by the upper class.

“In the end, most people have no choice but to learn by experiencing it directly in the field.”

“Then the indictment rate for upper-class rapists must be extremely low?”

“In reality, the crime rate for the upper class in rape cases appears low not only because they might commit fewer crimes, but also because the analysis of such crimes is inadequate.”

For example, if a rape occurs within the upper class, there’s no analysis of how they cover up the incident or reach a settlement. That naturally leads to the withdrawal of the case or the cancellation of the complaint due to pressure. From an external perspective, the upper class seems to have an even lower rate of sex crimes… and so, the police start to think that investigating sex crimes committed by the upper class is unnecessary, continuing the vicious cycle.

“But reality is a bit different.”

It’s not that the upper class is inherently better, but they have more ways to resolve incidents compared to the middle or lower class.

“For example, let’s say someone in the upper class can offer about a billion won [approximately $800,000 USD] when a sex crime occurs. Wouldn’t a settlement be reached? Moreover, if he’s dissatisfied and tries to mess with her, he can ruin the victim’s life, right?”

“I understand what you mean.”

If a settlement can’t be reached with a billion won, the upper class can hire a hitman for 300 million won [approximately $240,000 USD] to kill her. In other words, they’re the same rapists, but when you analyze them, the context is completely different, so you have to interpret them in different ways. Unfortunately, Korean analysis methods focus on the middle or lower class.

“But this is likely to be the lower class.”

Cha Dae-hoon nodded in agreement with Park Do-joon.

“By the way, how is it different?”

“Well, in the case of the upper class, there are many rapes based on hierarchy.”

Rape based on hierarchy refers to methods of subjugating the other person through deception or pressure.

“Intimidating them, using promotions as bait, or making them believe they’re dating with marriage in mind.”

“Ah!”

“They have many ways to subjugate the other person without using force.”

And in the process, the upper class considers ways to escape the consequences later.

For example, they call them to a hotel, rape them, and then claim, ‘The fact that she came to the hotel after I called her means she consented to the sexual relationship.’

In fact, there have even been absurd rulings in court where sharing food was considered consent to a sexual relationship, so voluntarily going to a hotel is often enough to be considered evidence of innocence.

“But from the middle class to the lower class, sex crimes based on violence tend to increase rather than sex crimes based on hierarchy.”

Of course, even the upper class doesn’t refrain from sex crimes based on violence if they have particular sexual preferences.

“To put it accurately, the upper class commits crimes thinking they can handle the aftermath, while the lower class doesn’t even think about handling it at all.”

“This case is the latter.”

“Yes, it’s the latter.”

If it were the former, they would have used a different method. But in the case of the Bonghwa-dong Squirrel, he clearly shows the latter tendency.

“He probably knows that there are no CCTV cameras around, though.”

The Bonghwa-dong Squirrel’s method is simple. He enters a woman’s house alone, rapes her, and flees. And in the process, he uses gas pipes to break in.

“It’s possible because Bonghwa-dong is such a slum.”

Bonghwa-dong is a neighborhood with hardly any people out at night.

“If the police’s goal was to not catch him, the rumors wouldn’t even spread.”

If someone had enough power to prevent the police from tracking down a case of this magnitude, they wouldn’t let the rumors spread internally.

“That means they really can’t catch him.”

“Hmm….”

Lee Ji-soo looked at the data with a serious face at Park Do-joon’s words. Then, she carefully asked.

“Then, Senior, who is this guy?”

“He’s probably an illegal immigrant. He’s been living in Korea for a long time, so he knows Korea well. Don’t you think so, Team Leader?”

Cha Dae-hoon nodded in agreement with Park Do-joon.

“That’s right. There’s a very high possibility.”

The criminal analyzed by the two is an illegal foreign resident. He’s quite thin… and his nationality is likely to be Chinese.

“He’ll have a history of rape. He probably committed a crime in China and then fled to Korea.”

“From China to Korea?”

“If he gets caught in China, he won’t be in good shape.”

China has strong punishments for these crimes. Of course, if he’s a high-ranking Communist Party member, he might be acquitted, but otherwise, he probably won’t be able to get out of prison for decades.

“Considering the poor prison conditions in China, there’s a high possibility he won’t come out alive.”

Cha Dae-hoon also knew that, so he frowned and said.

“That’s why there are many cases of people committing crimes in China and fleeing to Korea.”

“Ah….”

“Well, Koreans also cause trouble and flee to China, so it’s all the same.”

Park Do-joon nodded.

“So, Moonlight wants us to catch him?”

“I wish you would. Honestly, I can’t trust the police anymore. There are twenty-three victims. Does that make sense? No matter how incompetent they are, this isn’t right!”

Lee Ji-soo, who was listening, tilted her head.

“Um… Attorney Jung, how about doing an interview instead? The police feel pressured by the media, right? If it goes to the media, they’ll try to catch him no matter what, right?”

Then, Cha Dae-hoon, who was listening, shook his head.

“To be honest, I thought about that method too. But I opposed it.”

“Yes? Why?”

“There’s a high possibility that unnecessary victims will be created in the process of catching the criminal.”

“Unnecessary victims?”

“Hmm, you don’t know about Bonghwa-dong, do you?”

“No, I don’t know it well….”

“Do-joon, do you?”

“I know it. Bonghwa-dong… it’s not a good place to investigate, to be honest.”

Bonghwa-dong is a poor neighborhood. It’s a typical slum and underdeveloped area with many studio apartments and villas.

“And most of the people who live there are workers from the surrounding factory areas. Surprisingly, there are many young people there.”

From the beginning, the location itself, Bonghwa-dong, is a residential area, and the surrounding factory area was created around it, so there are many workers working in the surrounding factories in that area.

“But if the media starts to pressure them, the police will start an unreasonable investigation.”

“Unreasonable investigation?”

“Yes, they’ll try to create a criminal instead of catching one.”

At those words, Lee Ji-soo frowned. But surprisingly, Jung Yi-yeon said it as if it were obvious.

“That’s right. That’s why I opposed it too.”

“What do you mean by creating a criminal?”

“It means they’ll indiscriminately investigate people who could be rapists.”

The problem is that there are overwhelmingly male workers in that area. They’ll treat them all as suspects and cause a ruckus by arresting and indicting them if they’re even slightly suspicious.

“Ah~!”

The population sex ratio in industrial areas where factories are gathered is practically shattered, so they’ll start treating all the men in that area as sex offenders and pressure them.

“The police must have already conducted a basic investigation, given that the case has progressed this far. No matter how incompetent they are, they’re not stupid enough to neglect this kind of case.”

But they couldn’t catch the criminal with such basic investigation methods. Then they have to go to the all-out war stage… but the problem is the issues that arise in the process.

“Do you know that once you’re labeled as a sex offender, it doesn’t go away?”

“Yes? But they’re innocent, right?”

“That’s the problem. They’re innocent. But the investigation record itself remains.”

Cha Dae-hoon shook his head.

“We have to fix that, but it’s not easy.”

If a sex crime occurs somewhere and an investigation proceeds afterward? So, they were investigated? But if it’s revealed that he’s not the criminal or the real criminal is caught, the records related to him should be deleted, or at least the data should state ‘The real criminal in this case has been arrested.’