What happens in real life is that in emergencies, the legislature passes some “sentencing enhancement” that adds on a decade or three of prison time in the circumstance. Or they create a new bureaucracy that in the end just makes life worse for everyone, like the DHS and all the airport suckage that happened after 9/11 - if you’re too young to remember, flying on airplanes did not always suck.
What happens in real life is that in emergencies, the legislature passes some “sentencing enhancement” that adds on a decade or three of prison time in the circumstance. Or they create a new bureaucracy that in the end just makes life worse for everyone, like the DHS and all the airport suckage that happened after 9/11 - if you’re too young to remember, flying on airplanes did not always suck.