The Royal Guard. A joke of a law enforcement organisation? · 9:45am Jan 7th, 2021
The Royal Guard. As in the guard of the princesses/equestria or whatever. Are they a joke of a law enforcement organisation? That's only not seen as good since the vast majority of Equestria's population are incredibly loyal to the government and law abiding citizens. Think about it, if the crime rate is at virtually zero, why would you need to invest into a great law enforcement organisation? Seem to be more of a ceremonial organisation, if anything.
Imagine their chief of police makes a speech like this during an 'emergency'. "This comes from the top boys, Celestia's orders. Two ponies are having a friendship problem over what flowers to buy each other. We need to have a nice chat with them to deal with this situation. You have your orders, move out!"
well, true, we often see them getting owned, but to be fair, its mostly against powerful enemies, that twilight and her friends couldnt defeat either (at least not without the elements), or against changelings, which noone knew about beforehand. and during the heist episode, luna hired terrible guards on purpose, so her and spikes plan would work.
In the sombra timeline, the equestrian military seems to be on par with sombras forces, based on the state of the map.
also they did manage to capture the bug bear and chimera, since theyre now imprisoned in tartarus.
also flash magnus and shining armor are technically royal guards, and they do reasonably well.
also equestria does have crime. there is dr cabaleron and his goons, a black market for magical artifacts (where trixie bought the alicorn amulet from), and we see a cop pony in manehattan as well as sherrif silverstar, which at least implies a need for those occupations.
They don't seem to behave as law enforcement in the show, but more like an honor guard for the princesses.
They are mostly eye candy for the nobles/princess when they stand on guard. There is most likely crime but they won't be talk able it in the show.
As the Chief of Police delivered their orders, a disgruntled officer opened the door and called out to everyone, "Hey guys, the problem's been handled. Apparently Princess Twilight has a map that can pretty much detect problems and her own force of 'friendship soldiers' to take care of them. If anyone needs me, I'm going to go browse the newspaper for a job opening."
When the officer left, silence filled the room as they all digested that information.
"... Celestia damn you, Princess of Unemployment..."
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Or at least major ones. At most we'd hear is like, someone shoplifting