Crime in equestria? Ponies?

[jaime_lion 56]

So what is your guys-es thoughts on the crime rate in equestria? Do you think ponies are capable of crimes like rape or killing? Or do you think it is griffons or minotaurs that are responsible for the more serious crimes in equestria?

 

Also do you think like jobs in law enforcement or royal guards etc are more of a "defeat self not opponent thing" like for example I do kung fu and where I live i will more than likely never have to use it on another individual but I still use it everyday when something is bothering me it helps me to stay "centered" calm and collected till the stress is over.

 

That being said I can see a police pony or royal guard pony not doing much 99% of his or her career except helping ponies by giving directions and such. More than likely never drawing his baton or lance or what ever weapon the police or royal guard use.

 

So thoughts?

 

Also please keep this in the world of ponies no real world talk. When writing this I was thinking how this could possible get into talking about real world police and military etc.

 

And please no comments like "this is a kids show" or off topic comments a joke is allowed if in the same post you put a comment that adds to the conversation.

 

Thanks

[[NULL] 906]

I'm pretty sure there is crime in the MLP universe. Ignoring the villains constantly trying to take over the world, the villains in Daring Don't were implied to be part of a criminal orginazation, such as a mafia.

 

Since nobody in the MLP universe is bound by some force (that I know of) that prevents them from killing someone, I'm assuming it's happened before. Maybe just not on screen, thanks to the TV Y rating. Don't forget, this isn't the "utopia" that we call G3. Conflict exists. There wouldn't be a need for cops and night guard patrols if crime didn't exist.

Edited September 12, 2014 by SpaceOnion

[Sceethe 704]

Mafia Octav..

oh right,canon...

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Oh yeah. The mafia in daring dont, the scam artist flim flam brothers, they are just hints to a criminal underbelly in Equestrian culture.

[ShyPie 164]

I think there's definitely crime, not anything quite the level of murder/rape etc. But stuff like vandalism, theft, cart jacking, identity theft, etc. I think it'd be quite interesting to see a character who's a petty thief, maybe they're stealing to help someone or something, and they end up learning a lesson that they shouldn't do that and should ask their friends for help instead. Either that or an antagonist who's a thief, then we could get pony police as characters which would be cool to see.

[Darker 1,351]

Some of them commit crimes, but they're cutsie ponies, not humans, so the crimes are very minor.

[Jeric 46,861]

Do you think ponies are capable of crimes like rape or killing?

 

No ... I do not. Rape is decidedly off the table when it comes to any analyzing I do of this franchise. Murder is too (outside of 'what if' scenarios involving stakes when villains are discussed). Ponies do not rape.

 

 

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There may be minor local crimes i suppose, but I probably would not go further than civil issues like property disputes. 

 

EDIT: Forgot about Daring Don't ... though I would place theft as a minor crime in the grand scheme. Only seen that episode once so maybe now I will need to rewatch it.

[silvadel 1,393]

Even in our world, you can go a LONG time in a township of 3,000 people without having a single murder.  I mean 4 per 100,000 in the USA which includes the cities.  In a more rural area that would be lower.  So at say 1.33 per 100,000 in a small town like ponyville USA, there would be 25 years between murders.  ALL violent crime is under 400 per 100,000.  If that is 133 per 100,000 in ponyville, USA you are looking at 4 per year across the whole town.  Not this isn't ponies, this is HUMANS.

 

The only reason why you see so much of it on the news is because we have instantaneous access to the worst acts done across the entire country, and even then you often go weeks without a major shooting or something hitting the national news.

 

The way ponies are depicted in the show, I actually doubt that the violent crime rate is all that much lower than it would be by people.