Preferred Name:

Evan

IGN (In Game Name):

Loveb0mb

Discord:

Charybdis047

Age (optional):

21

OOC

Shortly describe 5 laws or behaviors that officers in the U.S must follow:

Miranda Rights 

Deriving from the 1966 U.S Supreme Court Case Miranda v. Arizona - The Miranda Rights are a set of legal protections that law enforcement must inform suspects in custody before interrogation. These protect individual rights under the Fifth Amendment (the right against self-incrimination) and the Sixth Amendment (the right to legal counsel). The standard Miranda Warning will be written below:

“You have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.”

Use of Force

The use of force in reference to law enforcement is the level of physical coercion officers can legally use to control a situation, make an arrest, or protect themselves and anyone around them. This is primarily governed by the Fourth Amendment of the U.S Constitution which requires any use of force to be ‘Objectively Reasonable’.  The landmark Supreme Court case for this (Graham v. Connor) judged that the use of force must be determined by the officer at the scene based on the severity of the situation and the threat posed by the suspect(s).

Probable Cause and Warrants:

Probable cause is a legal standard/requirement that allows law enforcement officers to make arrests, conduct searches and obtain warrants when there is reasonable basis that a crime has been committed. This standard is protected under the U.S Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against any unreasonable search or seizure of an individual. Probable cause must be based on concrete evidence or circumstances that would point a person of sound mind to believe a crime is being committed. The Illinois v. Gates Supreme Court case reshaped how courts determine whether or not probable cause actually exists.

Due Process:

The constitutional guarantee that protects an individual’s life, liberty, and property through fair legal procedures. This is outlined by the Fifth Amendment (the right against unjust/unfair legal proceedings) and the Fourteenth Amendment (prohibits the STATE from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property). Due process includes procedural rights, such as the right to a fair trial and notice of legal action, as well as substantive protections, which ensure the federal government cannot violate certain rights. Miranda v. Arizona was the Supreme Court case that shaped the foundation for Due Process.

Code of Conduct/Ethics

In the United States, due to the nature of law enforcement, a strict code of conduct called the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics was established by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) in 1957. These standards require officers to act with ‘honesty, fairness, and a respect for individual rights’. This is not simply an informal expectation of ethics, but standards that are legally set in stone. Any officer that breaches this code can suffer consequences related to the severity of their infraction.

Why do you want to join the Echoes police faction?:

First and foremost, I’ve been playing Echoes since the start of the beta, and I absolutely love the community, especially within the factions. My time working in the clinic and collaborating with the PD as a clinician has shown me how positive and welcoming both these factions are.

In other servers, I’ve usually avoided joining certain factions to stay away from toxic or stressful environments. But the Echoes community has long proven that it doesn’t foster that kind of negativity. I feel secure enough within the community to join the PD and try out a new kind of character!

I suppose my second reason is because I have been in and out of PD factions on both minecraft and other platforms for a couple of years now. I’ve taken leadership positions and truly enjoyed the fundamentals of the PD itself. I’d like to be able to start back as a cadet and test out an interesting new character. I’m interested to see the system set up for EPD, and I’m excited to interact with other officers already instated.

What would you do if you accidentally broke a law, and someone began to argue with you in OOC?:

If I broke a law in character, I would have the person roleplay this out in character. I already play a corrupt clinician, so I’m familiar with situations like this. It’s best to keep them completely in character, and involve staff if they continue to argue.

If someone was insulting you OOCLY for not following a law (such as reading their rights) what would you do/say?:

Similar to the last situation, I’d ask them to please keep this ICLY. There are steps they can follow in character if my character has truly broken a law. If they won’t take it out of OOC, then I would have a staff member teleport to moderate the situation. In both of these scenarios, I would avoid arguing in OOC.

What do you do if you arrest someone? Be short, but detailed.

Before arresting someone, you should always cuff them and search them to avoid any incidents within the cells. I would read them their Miranda Rights and charges before sending them back to the cells and beginning to process them. They may then be interrogated or moved as needed pending any investigations.

If someone is behaving strangely, as if they were using illegal substances, what do you do?

I’d keep an eye on them for a bit, making sure they aren’t dizzy or need medical assistance. If it’s clear they are showing true signs of inebriation (dilated pupils, stumbling, slurring, etc.) then I would conduct a few sobriety tests as necessary.

If someone will not give you their identity and you don’t have probable cause, what do you do?

If I do not have probable cause (or reasonable suspicion this individual has committed a crime) I would let them on their way, but do my best to remember their face. This is because without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, I cannot legally force them to show any identification.

If someone refuses to identify themselves because of the Fifth Amendment, but you have probable cause, what do you do?

If someone outright refuses to identify themself, and I have probable cause, I would inform them of the reason for this search. If they continue to object even after being informed, I would detain them for failure to identify to law enforcement (after search and seizure). I would of course inform them of their rights and then question them about the incident. Further interrogation may be needed depending on the situation and reason for probable cause.

Provide us with your character’s backstory. Please attempt to limit yourself to 1,500 words or less (Maximum 2,500):

Isak Elvindr - ‘Agent Snow’

On the streets of Oslo, they called him Black Frost. This nickname was whispered by Slavic gang members over vodka shots and scratched up card tables deep in Norway, or muttered by young men outside the train stations when the wind cut too sharp and the fog was thick enough to cut.

Isak Elvindr was born in Tromso, far north, where the sun disappears for weeks and the winter brings  silence. He was born… different, white hair, pale skin that appeared frostbitten, and eyes such a fair blue they seemed translucent. People used to say he was born with ghostly eyes, able to see things no one else could. Superstition runs deep in the North.

His mother, Signe, was a special kind of woman. She was a weaver of stories who raised him alone after his father disappeared during a fishing expedition into the Barents Sea. Some said his father had simply drowned. Others said he’d seen something out there that made him walk straight into the water and never come back. His mother never mentioned his father after that day.

Instead, she just taught Isak how to listen.

Not to people, because people lie. But to wind patterns, to the silence between snowflakes, to the things that moved just beneath the surface of the natural world. She told him, once, that their family had blood older than Norway itself. She told him there were stories coursing in their veins, and duties that stretched far beyond the world you could see.

But stories don’t pay rent, so… at sixteen, Isak left Tromso and didn’t look back.

He joined the police academy in Oslo after a few stale years in military service and security work across Europe. Something about him unnerved his instructors. Too calm. Too distant. But too damn good at his job to ignore.

By twenty seven, Isak was on the Oslo Serious Crimes Unit, murder, human trafficking, narcotics, the dark arteries of a city everyone liked to pretedn were clean. He specialized in what his unit called ghost cases, otherwise known as crimes that left no clear trail. They left no DNA, no witnesses, just a sense that something had gone wrong in a deeper sorta way.

Isak earned a reputation. Not just for solving cases others couldn't crack, but for the actual way he did it. He’d walk through a crime scene and just.. know things. Not facts… but the feelings. He could point out the order of violence, the twinge of fear, the emotional fingerprint left behind. It was as if there was something invisible whispering into his ear.

He never talked about that. People wouldn’t understand.

The case that made him infamous started in the winter of 1978, when Oslo was blanketed under a record breaking snowfall. A girl vanished from a quiet neighborhood in Bjerke. Her name was Maren, she was twelve years old, bright, and loved books. And just like that, she was gone without a trace. The only thing left behind was a snowman in her front yard, made with three misshapen lumps of ice and her red scarf tied around its neck.

Three days later, another child disappeared. The same pattern and same snowman.

The city froze with fear. The media called this new killer ‘The Snowman Butcher.’ The police couldn’t find anything, no evidence, no ransom notes, and certainly no demands. But Isak saw patterns in those absences. The spaces between things. The way the snowmen faced a certain direction (West, then East). The missing buttons. The way not a single dog barked the nights the children disappeared.

After the third child went missing, Isak vanished for three days.

When he returned, he was bleeding from a long cut down his ribs and had a broken hand, but he had a name… a local artist with a sealed psychiatric file, a man who would paint only in white and had once been found in the forest building effigies out of deer bones. They found the children in his cabin, still alive, though traumatized, fed on snow and wild berries. The man was dead… and Isak never said how.

Internal Affairs looked into it. But nothing quite stuck.

From then on, the rumors really spread. ‘Agent Snow can see what no one else sees.’ Some believed he had a supernatural gift. Others thought he was a danger.

But gifts come with a cost. Isak doesn’t sleep much anymore. The nightmares started after the Snowman case. Faces in the snow. Voices beneath the ice. Sometimes he walks by the fjord and feels something watching from the deep, dark water. A shape. A memory.

His mother’s voice always seems to echo… “Our family sees deeper. We remember what the world has forgotten.”

He started researching Sami mythology again. The old gods. Spirits. Stállu, the devourers and Ulda, the hidden ones. And in his journal, there are sketches. Not of suspects or maps, but of… patterns. Ice lattices. Ancient symbols. A deer skull with a third eye.

He’s not sure what’s happening to him… if he’s gone mad, or if he’s being called elsewhere.

Finally… a name came from his sketchings.

East Falls.

But what could that mean? The name was so unfamiliar to his native tongue, and it didn’t sound like a place up North. 

But, a few years down the line, a newspaper flitted through his station in Oslo. One of his comrades, Sigurd, was working on a case involving a serial killer whose signature mark was uranium poisoning. Sigurd never left a stone unturned, his sense of justice coursing through his very blood. So, he sent out for any snippets on uranium poisoning he could find.

Most of these papers were cold trails, sifted through and tossed into the bin. Isak happened to pluck one from its stack out of interest, reading through a small scrap. And for once, the blood in his veins truly frosted. He’d found East Falls… the small little town hidden in the middle of Wyoming, all the way in America.

Something told him he needed to go, that his time in Oslo had run its course. His mother shared this sentiment, encouraging him to follow the course the gods set for him.

When he learned enough English, he finally set off to Wyoming, settling in East Falls in hopes the department would accept him.

After all, he had expunged all his records.

IC:

Name:

Isak Elvindr

Age:

29

Education:

Bachelors in Criminal Justice

Bachelors of Science in Biology

Why do you want to be an officer in our community?

I’ve come from far away, from a land much colder and darker. I moved to America to find somewhere warmer and kinder. I lived in a big city before, and I wished only to live somewhere smaller and quiet. East Falls showed up as only a speck on my map. I thought a big city cop might do well in such a small town. It seemed like a good change of pace from my normal patrols.

Have you had any previous training or teaching in our academy?

I have had training from other academies in the North, but I am unfamiliar with your traditions. I have read up on American law, but have not fully been integrated into it. I am confident I will be easily teachable, and that I can be agreeable with the other officers. You will have no trouble from me. 

What responsibilities do you hold as a police officer?

On paper, I must uphold a code of ethics to keep positive with the community and to perform my duties well. But I believe there is more than this. Officers hold a responsibility to the community and their role as protectors. We are looked to as pillars of safety, and we must act as such. The burden placed on our shoulders is not one easy to bare, but well worth the effort and sacrifice. I believe in English, the term goes as ‘Protect and Serve’.

Do you plan on advancing in our staff hierarchy?

With certain ideas I have in mind, I plan to rise in your ranks. Eventually I would like to hold a detective position, that is where I am best suited. Until then, I am happy to perform my duties as an officer of the law. 

Last question: what’s our real motto?

On guard for your safety - to protect and serve.