Source: New York Metro News
By Amy Ellis
Who is the Vanishing Man? That’s the question that reporters are starting to ask as more criminals are brought in by this vigilante. Police records show that this vigilante has been operating for at least four months. They have “helped” many people and stopped a number of break-ins. The people this person “helps” bring in have nothing linking them and the level of crime they commit runs the whole gambit. While they have taken people off the streets, they have also made police work harder in the process.
We say he vanishes because that’s what all of the people he takes off the street say. One minute they’re there the next they’re nowhere to be seen. Apparently, he also never lays a finger on anyone yet police always find his ‘victims’ unconscious. How exactly he does any of it is a mystery but it’s unlikely that these many people have the same story without there being some truth to it all. One report this paper had access to said “It’s like fighting a mirage”.
The actions of this vigilante raise concerns about the state of police work and the safety of the public. The vigilantes' most recent activities have put a wrench in a recent plan by state-wide authorities; though this paper does not know what this plan was. With this new presence on the street, there will have to be a contingent of officers who now have to work to ensure this vigilante is apprehended; an insider has informed this paper.
There is also public safety to consider. This person seems to operate, mostly, at night. While this person has brought in people either caught in the act or with known criminal records that does not mean innocent civilians are not at risk. With what has already been seen as the outcomes of the vigilantes' actions one mistaken identity could lead to a lot of trouble. That's not to say anything of the possible effects of the way these people are found. In short, the presence of a vigilante raises serious questions about the role they play in criminal justice and possible concerns to public safety.
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