First. The island government here does a lot of things I don't like. We're not them. Our job is to keep people safe, whatever is going on. We don't go up against the government because if they cut us off, we can't do our job. It's a hard call, sometimes.

Second. On the island right now we have about a hundred so-called fictionals. That's us. We also have something like fifteen thousand non-fictionals living and working here, including in the department. Some of them aren't so happy about having an imaginary chief, and they hate patrol beats in the fictional neighborhood. Too many people have some kind of power. They don't want to deal with it. I'd fire them... but then I couldn't cover any beats.

It's a Hell of a job.