Karrin defaults to bracing for bad blood, just because she's so used to dealing with it even from her own department. SI was the local laughingstock until she took it over, and not much has changed besides their effectiveness. Their success rate increased exponentially under her command, which made her even less popular with those who placed her there hoping she'd be out on her ass within a matter of months. As for outsiders being brought in on her cases, they come in looking for normal human criminals. SI is better informed and better prepared for supernatural threats. Bringing in the feds or other local cops means deaths. Karrin hates needless bloodshed, especially on her watch.
Plus there was that time the FBI sent law-flouting werewolves to investigate a set of homicides that had been assigned to SI, but Agent Denton's team was... a special case. Most FBI agents don't get themselves addicted to shape-shifting magic.
"All my life. I've got a little house in Bucktown that used to be my grandma's. "And my dad was a cop too." Her father was, though she doesn't know it, Karrin's predecessor, one of the senior members of the thirteenth precinct tasked with dealing with the supernatural. Solving crimes and sweeping the real causes under the rug so people can pretend everything has a mundane explanation. The job got to him, and he killed himself when she was 11. It's part of the reason her mother disapproves so strongly of Karrin's career.
She grins again, wryly. "I think half the Murphy clan is on the Chicago police force. Reunions are a bunch of cops and their families, plus the occasional firefighter thrown in just for a little variety."
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Plus there was that time the FBI sent law-flouting werewolves to investigate a set of homicides that had been assigned to SI, but Agent Denton's team was... a special case. Most FBI agents don't get themselves addicted to shape-shifting magic.
"All my life. I've got a little house in Bucktown that used to be my grandma's. "And my dad was a cop too." Her father was, though she doesn't know it, Karrin's predecessor, one of the senior members of the thirteenth precinct tasked with dealing with the supernatural. Solving crimes and sweeping the real causes under the rug so people can pretend everything has a mundane explanation. The job got to him, and he killed himself when she was 11. It's part of the reason her mother disapproves so strongly of Karrin's career.
She grins again, wryly. "I think half the Murphy clan is on the Chicago police force. Reunions are a bunch of cops and their families, plus the occasional firefighter thrown in just for a little variety."