what happens to pokemon belonging to arrested characters/villains?

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What do they do to the pokemon owned by someone who are arrested?
 
I imagine they set them up for adoption/and or train them to work in their law enforcement.

Or release them
 
I was thinking that they would try to rehabilitate them and put them into some sort of foster care. IIRC, my local city's policy is, when IRL criminals get arrested and they can't find close relatives or friends to watch over the pet, it's surrendered to an animal shelter.
 
I'm gonna move this to Pokémon World as it isn't Anime-exclusive.
 
The same thing that happens in real prison they stay in a cell all day and play tic tac toe. That what happens in prison right?
 
I would imagine that some sort of shelter system would be in place and the Pokemon would be surrendered to said shelter, where they would be rehabilitated and placed for adoption. Now, depending on the severity of the crime, I would expect that most professional criminals wouldn't get their Pokemon back, but what about a one-time offender who made a mistake and reformed? It would seem rather cruel to me to separate someone like that from their best friends; maybe there are some mercy clauses? It's a thought.
 
kind of like the SPCA here (I live in truro BTW) The would Take the pokemon and put them into care until someone would take them or they would be put down (Due to lack of trainers and beacuse they probably cant hold very many pokemon at a time)
Thats what i think anyway.
 
They put them down just like dangerous dogs in the real world
 
Karamazov said:
I was thinking that they would try to rehabilitate them and put them into some sort of foster care. IIRC, my local city's policy is, when IRL criminals get arrested and they can't find close relatives or friends to watch over the pet, it's surrendered to an animal shelter.
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Now I imagine this video but instead of cute dogs and cats, you've got, like, all the usual bad guy Pokemon like Muk and Golbat.
 
Probably released or put up for adoption.

If they are a first time low-level offender, they may get their pokémon back.
 
My opinion is mostly what everyone has already said.

But, I just though of something: How many people have actually been arrested in Pokemon?
 
Silverwynde said:
I would imagine that some sort of shelter system would be in place and the Pokemon would be surrendered to said shelter, where they would be rehabilitated and placed for adoption. Now, depending on the severity of the crime, I would expect that most professional criminals wouldn't get their Pokemon back, but what about a one-time offender who made a mistake and reformed? It would seem rather cruel to me to separate someone like that from their best friends; maybe there are some mercy clauses? It's a thought.
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I could agree with that. Well they would monitor the person to ensure he or she is not commiting any more crimes for a certain length of time and if he or she did truly reform they would give his or her pokemon back.
 
Yeah, I could go with the SPCA idea. Or perhaps they release them. Who knows?

Another question, how well do long-term domesticated (captured) pokemon do in the wild if they are released? You would think that would be easier, but then again, who knows these days? Pokemon as a whole are much more violent and mean in this series than they were in any of the other seasons.
 
05308 said:
They put them down just like dangerous dogs in the real world
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But that would imply that the Pokemon itself actually committed the crime and not the human. Now, if the human had trained said Pokemon to attack and harm others, I could understand. But not if the Pokemon was simply a victim of circumstances. That's just incredibly cruel. Hopefully, there would be someone around to take in a few Pokemon like that.
 
Silverwynde said:
05308 said:
They put them down just like dangerous dogs in the real world
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But that would imply that the Pokemon itself actually committed the crime and not the human. Now, if the human had trained said Pokemon to attack and harm others, I could understand. But not if the Pokemon was simply a victim of circumstances. That's just incredibly cruel. Hopefully, there would be someone around to take in a few Pokemon like that.
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Dogs that are beyond 'repair' are put down saddley, perhaps the more Intellegent pokemon would be made better but pokemon like Mankey and Pochyena may never stop being a danger to others and themselves
 
No, Villain Pokemon are not villain themselves. They are captured and told what to do, they have no choice. Pokemon have never had a choice in anything, because they can't talk. For instance, Ash's Pokemon might not want him to be a Pokemon Master, but they can't do anything about it. Who knows what Pikachu is really saying.
 
jokool said:
But, I just though of something: How many people have actually been arrested in Pokemon?
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In the Anime, I only remember Team Galactic being arrested. In the games, all the Sages have been arrested (though Ghetsis managed to escape) and Charon has been arrested as well in Pokémon Platinum's Stark Mountain side-quest. I might be missing a lot of other characters, but this is all I know.
 
A lot of you are forgetting one important thing... unlike real-world pets, Pokémon don't need to be fed / cared for / whatever (well, sometimes the anime implies that they do, but other times it seems like they don't. In the games they never do). So it would make no sense to release them or put them up for adoption... just as it makes no sense to take a criminal's other possessions and have them recycled or sold or whatever simply because the criminal isn't currently using any of it. The criminal still has every right to keep his Pokémon. Now, if the criminal had used the Pokémon to commit the crime then that would be a different story (it would make sense to confiscate the Pokémon if that was the case). But like, if some random guy owned some Pokémon and got caught committing identity theft or something then there's no reason to take his Pokémon away. Just leave them in their Poké Balls or store them on the PC until the criminal is released.
 
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