Editing SPOILER: Taking an Active Role (section)

==Law==

A category related to Crime is Law. Law includes civil rights, consumer groups, housing, and labor unions. Law is where heroes with Legal or Law Enforcement talents are most useful.

The biggest section of Law is civil rights. Ways to help include having a lawyer hero volunteer his time to try a case or do research on one. Organizations include the NAACP, Indian Rights Association, National Gay Task Force, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). An adventure could begin when a lawyer hero is called into court by the ACLU to help (as a lawyer) in the defense of a recently defeated supervillain because the villain’s civil rights were violated by the same hero at some point during the villain’s capture.

The next section is consumer groups. Some ways a hero could participate include getting people to register to vote, or investigating a sleazy telemarketing business. Organizations include political parties, The League of Women Voters of the United States, and the Better Business Bureau. An adventure might arise when the heroic PCs’ are portrayed in the media as violent people with no regard for civil rights, and any cause (charity, etc.) the heroes support suffers backlash.

Law also includes housing. Housing might mean making sure a housing unit is safe to live in or investigating alleged discrimination against minorities seeking housing. Organizations include the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. A campaign could begin when the landlord of one of the PC’s relatives refuses to take care of pest control, dangerous wiring, unsafe or dark stairwells, etc., and the PC’s relative is injured due to the landlords negligence.

The last section of Law is labor unions. Labor unions include the United Auto Workers (UAW), the AFL-CIO, and teachers’ unions. The biggest way for heroes to help is to arbitrate between a union and the company its members work for, but a hero also could be called in to stop violence during a strike. A campaign could begin when the hero team is asked to help arbitrate a labor strike and one of the factions hires supervillains to interfere with the negotiations.