The official story is always rubbish. Sure, sometimes the official story is a true story, one that can ultimately help those who need it and move the future towards a better one. But it’s always written by the people in charge to fit their narrative. Information is lost to time and the machinations of those who will it to be lost. It rarely stays lost forever. Sometimes, there’s a hole that forces people to dive deeper and deeper into the story until it disappears forever in favor of a different story. Sometimes, the new story is equally false. “Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia,” as they say.
Take, for example, Detective Jet Black’s arm. Officially, an assassin working for the European Syndicate named Udai Taxam shot it off the detective, forcing his career to a premature end. However, holes start to build up once you start looking for them. For example, consider Black’s partner, Detective Fredrick Alexander “Fad” Dixon. He was with Black when they were going after Taxam, and yet was conveniently somewhere else when Black’s arm was shot off. Equally, the angle of the shot that blew away Black’s arm was too high up to actually be done by Taxam himself. There was a spotlight on Black when the gun went off. Could it be a third party turned on the spotlight, blinding Black’s vision of the sniper who got rid of his arm.
Equally, there’s the murder of Officer Wilson Marcos. Officially a cold case wherein his skinned body was found wandering the streets of Tharsis. The police at the time found no evidence on the body as to who could have committed the crime. Thirty years later, it was discovered that the Chief of Police himself, Philip Jameson, skinned Marcos as he was getting to close on a case. At the time, Marcos was involved in a missing persons case with Detectives Mark Walters and Mellissa “Mels” Parker. The case, as discovered much later, revealed corruption, systemic racism, and other such nastiness within the department. Of the three, Marcos was the loudest killed. Walters was simply murdered in his bathtub and framed to look like a suicide. Parker went MIA for thirty years until she resurfaced in a massive piece by the Saturn Press, which effectively destroyed the ISSP at the foundations.
On the other hand, consider Commander Sam Plinkov. Officially speaking, Plinkov was a hero who died a heroes death. He was investigating a drug cartel for the last five years of his life along with a string of partners who ended up dead. Some were under the impression that he was a crooked cop who was in on the cartel’s dealings and purposefully got his partners killed. But, when the cards were laid down on the table, Plinkov ultimately fought against the cartel, practically singlehandedly destroying their operation, at the cost of his own life. The evidence that he simply turned on the cartel has been suppressed by the police, though one documented photograph of money switching hands between Plinkov and cartel member and former captain Elroy Masterson has surfaced. The timing of the photo indicates that Masterson was with the cartel at the time, though when pressed about the subject as a death row inmate, Masterson refused to comment. (He was killed shortly afterwards by Dixon.)
There are other stories that have been altered or shifted by the official story. Ones that have been murdered in the crib in favor of simpler, more appealing stories of heroism and mystery. The nature of telling stories is to create an image of the world you want to see. The vision of the police is one where the good guys support the law and fight tooth and nail to see justice done. The law is always just and never crooked, bar one or two bad apples. But the truth of the saying is that one bad apple does spoil the bunch. Officially, it doesn’t. Officially, the problem is individual actors working against the common good, those who would work with the syndicate or the cartel or Eastasia. The system isn’t the problem. It’s those who use and abuse it, that’s the problem. Trust the authority, trust the power structure. This is the best of all possible worlds.
But that’s just one story being told. There are others out there in the world, ones suppressed by the official one.
The truth is out there…
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