This is the Police is a game in which you play a police chief. You will occasionally take decisions on the field, interrogate suspects and solve mysteries. But most of the gameplay in This is the Police consists in choosing what police officers send to what assignment. It’s pretty awesome.
And since killscreen essentially trashed the beautiful thing in this review, I will come in its defense. This is the Police illustrates systematic racism in a better way than any other game, because unlike most games that talk about racism, it shows it exclusively through its mechanics.
Very early on the game you are shown that there are a lot of racist groups putting pressure on the government, soon you get a call from the mayor, he wants the problem solved. You first instinct is “Cool, I have to catch the racist gangs and put them in jail”. Nope, you must fire all black cops. No further justification, no negotiation; you fire all black cops you get a happy mayor and a reward, you ignore the order and you get an angry mayor and are punished.
It’s as simple as that. Killscreen describes it as this:
For the ultimate failure of This Is the Police is that it makes everyone culpable but the police. When you fire all the black cops on day four, it’s not really your fault: the racist gangs and evil mayor made you do it. When you order the assaults on protesters, you’re just following orders. If this game is any indication, the worst thing a cop ever did was drink too much on the job: all the true evil originates with the higher-ups and lower-downs.
Which makes me reach a simple conclusion: The author of this review fired those black cops. He blindly followed a racist order because it came from a figure of authority and he reached the conclusion “well, it’s not my fault, they made me take those decisions”. And somehow he didn’t realize the problem with that Nuremberg defense.
But the game didn’t force him. This is the Police punish you for taking those decisions, but you don’t get a game over. It’s perfectly possible to play the game ignoring those requests, you just need to work extra hard (I personally ignored any request from the mayor that I found morally repugnant every time I had the chance).
This is why I found the game to be beautiful, and why I feel like the Killscreen review is full of it. Systematic racism is not caused by the KKK lynching people they don’t like, it’s caused by institutions unwilling to take decisions that could solve the problems.
You have a racist society that put pressure on the government, a mayor willing to take racist policies not because he has anything against black people but because he wants to please his voters, and you, the people at the bottom of the chain who will be punished for doing the right thing.
Latter in the game you will a have a group of black people protesting and the mayor ask you to use force to stop them. They game doesn’t give you any additional context, it doesn’t need to. You know why they are angry, you know what the problem is, and you are potentially part of that exact problem.
This is, in my opinion a more meaningful illustration of systematic racism than a million Deux Ex with a million #AugsLivesMatter.
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