With the crime rate up six hundred percent in twelve hours and property damage estimated at two-point-nine million dollars and rising, as Chief of Police I am officially declaring a state of emergency and placing this island under martial law.

As of 2000 hours island time on February Twenty-Third, the island is under curfew between dawn and dusk. Anyone whose work schedule requires violation of curfew can come in to the police department and fill out a waiver form. Everyone else, park your asses inside.

All police personnel are immediately on call twenty-four hours a day. If you are called in off shift immediate hazard pay grades apply. Any vigilantes volunteering for deputization will be paid the same. Any vigilantes not volunteering are subject to the same curfew limitations. I don't need to see under the mask. I do need a clear chain of command.

Normal civil and criminal penalties, habeas corpus proceedings, and limitations on incarceration without charges are suspended for the duration of the crisis.

Violators are warned that under a state of martial law police officers are authorized to use all necessary force without prior warning, search and seizure is not subject to a warrant, and you do not have a right to see a lawyer.

This is your one warning. Calm the Hell down. Stay off the streets. Watch your asses.