My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 593

“Seriously, why did you come to pick me up? I told you to have someone else do it.”

“Everyone’s busy. Just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean there are no trials.”

“And you are?”

“Oh, you haven’t met my older brother, have you? This is Jeong Gwang-ho, my eldest brother. I told you about him, right? The… unique one who’s a battalion commander.”

“Unique? I just happen to like the military. I’m Jeong Gwang-ho.”

“Ah, nice to meet you. I’m Park Do-joon.”

Park Do-joon gave an awkward greeting.

*Of course*. If Jeong I-yeon and he were to marry, her older brother would become his brother-in-law. So, his elder.

“Is my sister giving you a hard time?”

“Hahaha, she’s doing great.”

Park Do-joon laughed awkwardly. *Well, these kinds of meetings are always awkward at first.*

“But seriously, what brings you here? The military wouldn’t give you leave just because it’s Christmas.”

“I came to Seoul because there’s a trial.”

“A trial? Did you cause some trouble while I wasn’t looking?”

“Not me. One of the soldiers caused an accident. Haa!”

“What kind of accident? What about a lawyer?”

“My father is helping, but it seems difficult.”

Even in a military trial, you need a lawyer. Fortunately, Jeong Gwang-ho comes from a family of lawyers, so he’s helping, but it seems quite challenging.

“What happened? My boyfriend is a very capable profiler. Who knows, maybe he can help?”

At those words, Jeong Gwang-ho hesitated for a moment before nodding.

“Could we talk somewhere else? There are too many people here.”

“Let’s do that. *Oppa* [older brother in Korean], you can help, right?”

“Well, I should help if I can.”

Park Do-joon, knowing how messed up the military’s judicial system is, nodded.

“I’ll have to hear the story first.”

The three of them were able to talk in a quiet cafe a little later. And after hearing the details, Park Do-joon couldn’t help but click his tongue.

“If that’s true, he’s been completely set up.”

The incident itself was simple but incredibly complex at the same time.

A soldier on leave met a woman at a bar and spent the night with her. Then, the woman accused the soldier of rape.

“In this case… this is completely hopeless, isn’t it?”

Jeong I-yeon frowned after hearing about the case.

“Yeah, my father said the same thing.”

“Of course. It’s already extremely disadvantageous for men when it comes to sex crimes.”

After the Supreme Court decided to apply the principle of presumed guilt for sex crimes against women under the name of ‘gender sensitivity,’ almost all sex crimes have been punished with a presumption of guilt.

The problem is that the military also operates on the principle of presumed guilt.

Sex crimes, which already operate on the principle of presumed guilt, become even more hopeless when combined with the military organization.

“I’m already going crazy because of that.”

The soldier is claiming his innocence, but the military is investigating him as a ‘rapist,’ as always.

“The police should be finding the evidence, but they’re not cooperating.”

“Yes.”

The military police don’t have the authority to investigate civilians. Naturally, they need the police to investigate the woman or the bar from the outside, but this isn’t a police case; it’s a military police case.

So, even if they solve it, the military police will take the credit, so the police have no reason to investigate diligently.

Moreover, since sex crimes operate on the principle of presumed guilt, there’s no point in investigating anyway.

“So, they just threw over some data.”

The data they threw over was the soldier carrying the woman, who was drunk and asleep, into the motel.

“The soldier says he carried her because she twisted her ankle.”

“But it doesn’t look that way on camera.”

It’s not clear from the motel camera whether she was drunk, asleep, or had twisted her ankle. In the end, the military police indicted the soldier for rape, and the trial was today.

“So?”

“The military prosecutor demanded 10 years in prison.”

“10 years in prison? That’s too harsh! Even *real* rape doesn’t get that much, does it?”

“It’s military law.”

Military law is much harsher and more brutal than general criminal law. In general criminal law, the punishment for rape is imprisonment with labor for not less than three years, and it usually results in about three to five years.

“Military law starts at five years. And if there’s no remorse, it doubles.”

Even with remorse, military law usually results in seven years, but since he doesn’t admit his crime and shows no remorse, it’s 10 years in prison.

“That’s ridiculous…”

“The military law system doesn’t have a proper defense system.”

Jeong Gwang-ho sighed and said,

“There are not enough lawyers, and there’s not enough evidence.”

“What do you think, *Oppa*? Is that soldier the type to commit rape?”

“Well, as far as I know, it’s not very likely.”

He’s a bit cocky and sarcastic, but he’s not the type to commit rape.

“Simply saying he’s not the type is uncertain. In fact, it’s not difficult to gain a reputation for being a good person.”

Human relationships are such that you can gain a reputation as a good person just by helping others and being nice to those above you.

“Some famous serial killers were even respected in their communities.”

“That’s true, but I’ve been watching soldiers for a long time, and I know what kind of guys cause trouble.”

“I guess that’s true.”

Usually, there are warning signs for the guys who cause trouble. For example, the guys who create bad military culture within the military usually didn’t learn it that way. Even if the bad military culture is eliminated from above, they later use it for their own benefit in the name of tradition.

Of course, they have never experienced such bad military culture themselves.

The common trait of such guys is that they are power-oriented and extremely selfish.

“But he was a guy who was very considerate of others. That’s why he received a commendation from the battalion commander. And he was donating to single-mother facilities little by little.”

“Single-mother facilities?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm…”

Park Do-joon fell into thought at those words.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, donating to single-mother facilities… it doesn’t quite fit in terms of profiling.”

“Huh? Why?”

“The common trait of rapists is the objectification of women.”

They recognize women not as people but as tools to satisfy their sexual desires and actually treat them that way.

In fact, there are many other ways to achieve the single goal of satisfying sexual desire. They could go to bars that hire escorts or find businesses that cater to that sort of thing.

“The women’s movement sometimes portrays people who go to such places as rapists, but it’s actually the opposite.”

Of course, that doesn’t mean that guys who go to such places *don’t* commit rape.

“I don’t quite understand? Explain it more simply.”

“Um, it’s like this. The biggest problem with those businesses isn’t the satisfaction of sexual desire but the fact that they gradually objectify women through that process.”

Sexual objectification, as the women’s movement calls it. That’s what happens naturally in those places. So, if you start going there consistently, some people may actually start to sexually objectify women.

“The problem is that this is just a ‘possibility.’ It’s as absurd as saying that people steal because they have money.”

“So, you’re saying that the guys who are going to turn out that way will eventually turn out that way?”

“That’s right.”

Even if a wallet is lying on the street, someone will pick it up and report it, and someone will take it.

“In the end, crime is greatly influenced by individual tendencies. The same goes for bars. It can accelerate the objectification of the target, but it can’t instill that tendency in someone who doesn’t already have it.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, and the fact that he’s been donating to single-mother facilities is very ambiguous.”

“Why?”

“Is it possible for someone who objectifies women to feel sympathy for them?”

“Huh? Is that so?”

“People don’t feel guilt about cars, do they?”

Even if you accidentally scratch a parked car, the object of guilt is the owner of the parked car, not the car. The difference is very clear.

“Is that how it is?”

“Yes, moreover, single mothers are often victims of sexual abuse.”

If they meet properly after marriage, or at least if the man is seriously considering marriage, they don’t try to send them to single-mother facilities. Even if they’re beaten to death, they at least greet the woman’s parents and try to take responsibility.

“So, there’s no possibility?”

“Again, that’s not it either.”

“Not again?”

“Yes, don’t take human psychology too lightly. If we did, we would have eradicated criminals a long time ago.”

“So, is it possible for someone who makes those donations to be a criminal?”

Jeong Gwang-ho asked back as if he was dumbfounded, and Park Do-joon nodded at those words.

“Yes, there are two main possibilities in such cases: a mask, or guilt.”

“A mask?”

“Yes, to put it simply, you can think of it as crocodile tears.”

In order to avoid suspicion from the target they are attacking or preying on, they show goodwill towards that target, thereby promoting to those around them that they are not a threat to that target.

“You can call it a mask, or you can see it as a kind of camouflage for hunters.”

In fact, the famous American child rapist and murderer was the coach of a local youth baseball team and devoted himself to the children for many years.

That’s why the parents didn’t believe at first that he was a child rapist and murderer.

“Crazy?”

“The other is that the objectification of the other person is not perfect, so they feel guilt.”

In crime, there is a method called substitution. If you have a grudge against A but cannot directly attack A, you attack B or C, who can replace him.

For example, if you have a grudge against a blonde woman, attacking another blonde woman to resolve that grudge is such a method.

But that method is not only applied to the target of the attack. There are also cases where, if you feel guilty about A, you treat B, who replaces A, well in order to resolve that guilt.

“No, then isn’t there no answer?”

“Of course, there’s no answer just by listening. But from my point of view, psychologically, it’s not very likely that he’s the culprit.”

“Why?”

“First of all, there’s no prior criminal record to say it’s substitute guilt.”

For guilt to occur, there must be a prior criminal record. But according to Jeong Gwang-ho, this is his first offense.

“Could there be an undiscovered crime before that?”

“No, if that were the case, there would have been learning in the crime.”

There may be an undiscovered crime. If so, he knows how to prevent that crime from being discovered.

“But this time, he confidently carried the woman into the motel. That means he’s never done that before.”

“Ah!”

A criminal who knows how to never get caught wouldn’t commit a crime in a way that would obviously get him caught.

A Professional Profiler