![]() ![]() While Alana and Marko turn down the offer, Petrichor and Robot IV take it, Robot giving a testimony about the real circumstances behind the destruction of the planet Phang. Saga: Journalists Upsher and Doff know of a program to protect testifiers, that doesn't just change their identity but also transfers them into a completely different body to make them harder to trace.The judge only has about two seconds to crap his pants before Frank gets out of his cuffs and unleashes the most literal example of " Rage Against the Legal System" ever. In The Trial of The Punisher, Frank Castle allows himself to be arrested and put on trial because he wanted to explain something in his defense: that he knows the judge presiding the trial used to be a high-ranking mafioso that provided evidence to the FBI and entered Witness Protection, and thus escaped punishment from the law - but not from Frank, who had already killed the corrupt DA that got the mafioso the deal before letting himself be captured, just to get in this room.Ultimately, even Batman's unable to make him confess to the shooting, and he walks… until Bullock deliberately leaks his identity to some of his old associates. Batman: Officer Down has a rare case of a completely unsympathetic witness - a former mafioso who resented being split up from his family ( never mind that it was his choice to join the mob to start with) and guns down Commissioner Gordon for arranging the State's-Evidence deal to begin with.It's later revealed that his handler, Froggett, deliberately leaks his location to his enemies in the hopes that they'll kill him and thus Froggett will finally be rid of Kev once and for all. In the The Authority: Kev series, Kev Hawkins' address is supposed to be a secret due to his history with the SAS, but he keeps getting found by the various Irish terrorist groups who want him dead.Not related to the Larry the Cable Guy film Witless Protection. See also Police Are Useless and Unsafe Haven, the latter of which operates on the same principle as this trope. The Anthropic Principle is in full force here if the witness protection did work, the characters would simply happily disappear into their new lives, and there would be no story. Especially if the protectors happen to be particularly powerful. However, the chances of the witness getting found out only increases exponentially. ![]() In cases where a government-issued program does not exist, friends, relatives, and associates of the witness may make their own form of protection. Fortunately, should the witness survive, what usually follows is either the bad guy getting killed and the witness being able to return to their old identity (which isn't possible in Real Life witness protection), or the bad guy getting incarcerated, which usually only delays their inevitable return. Sometimes, the witness will be lucky enough to survive the inevitable attempt on their life (usual reason being them being a main character), but that still means the witness protection failed the perp found them anyway. Whatever the case, they will find a way to get to these witnesses, government protection be damned. Or perhaps the perp just stumbled upon the witness by random happenstance. Or maybe the witnesses blow their cover by being Too Dumb to Live. Or perhaps they just happen to be a Scarily Competent Tracker. Or maybe the people who are SUPPOSED to be keeping their identities secret aren't that good at doing their job. Perhaps the perp had some help from the inside? Or maybe the perp has supernatural abilities that aided their search. Exactly how the bad guy finds these people regardless of all their records being virtually erased is rarely ever brought up. ![]() In fiction, if someone is placed under witness protection, they might as well have just pasted a huge "KILL ME" sign on their back because chances are that character is going down courtesy of the perpetrator, in spite of all the odds. In fiction, however… that's another story. ![]() In Real Life, the program tends to be fairly successful in granting these people the security they need because there are multiple levels of protection and doesn't have to be a new identity, such as adding restrictions on who can read normally public records. To put it simply, in case the perp has ideas to eliminate the witnesses in question, the Witness Protection Program will take those witnesses and officially alter all their records and form new identities plus have them move to another location in order to make them virtually impossible to track by the offenders. The Witness Protection Program serves to, well, protect witnesses to crimes in order to prevent perpetrators from… cleaning up after themselves, in a way. ![]()
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