Letter sent to Gotham's Major Crimes Division. Hilarious quandry in itself HaHaHa!
  • Attention Gotham's Major Crimes Unit

    I believe Harleen Quinzel, who now prefers to be known as Harley Quinn, believes she is in her own opinion stable, and mentally sound. However, medical evaluation does not provide a similar conclusion. 'Harley's' current state of mental conformity is based on years of past experiences in which she has grown accustomed to following a set baseline of goals and life decisions that were perhaps laid out before her throughout her life without her ever questioning their reasoning or purpose; Thus, 'Harley' never truly learned to agree with the rules and regulations that were given to her to live by day to day.

    Examination has proven that 'Harley' was reconditioned by the criminal known as 'The Joker' simply by the fact that he most likely is the first individual to truly pose the question to 'Harley' of why she believes what she believes. This questioning perhaps provided a path to her, which concluded that she does not in fact 'believe' anything; she simply was 'doing what she does'. Once this quandary was opened up to her, it allowed 'The Joker' to suggestively explain to her what she should believe. To 'Harley' this new version of the world was the first thing that she actually understood and had reason to relate.

    I disagree with the media's explanation that 'Harley' may possibly have a split personality. There is no supportive evidence that 'Harley Quinn' is an entirely separate person from 'Harleen Quinzel'. The fact the 'Harley' recognizes her past and simply denies to 'return' to the previous rules she lived by shows full knowledge that she remembers and agrees those parts of her life have taken place. It is also evident that 'Harley' is proud of her 'transformation' from an academically professional life to that of a criminally professional life. This acknowledgement also substantiates that Harley Quinn and Harleen Quinzel are in fact the same personality.

    Harley has given many suggestions to both the Arkham staff and the Gotham Police Dectives, which brings forth evidence that 'Harley' in fact did not have a 'break' provoked by The Joker, but in fact has struggled with criminal tendencies in the past.

    It is unlikely that Harley can return to her previous life due to the nature of her former career as a criminal psychologist in relation to her current explorative research as a criminally driven individual. Harley should also be seen as a great threat to the city of Gotham, due to her vast knowledge of previous career criminal's personal details, and her current activities, which allow her to bridge the gap between Lawful Judgment and Criminal undertaking.

    Harley's anger is driven by a hate of the limitations of the Law's ideas of what kind of life a successful person should be expected to lead, and thus complete rehabilitation is not a possibility. If the Criminal Harley Quinn is apprehended permanently, she should be seen as a danger to 'common criminals' or 'sane criminals' as they are seen as a threat and insult to her currently established belief system. Harley should be permanently contained in a facility such as Arkham where she can be provided with a community of support that understands her confused view of unlawful logic.

    Harleen Quinzel's personality is believed to be a suppressed version of Harley Quinn, and forcing her to admit her previous state is her actual state would be detrimental to those enforcing it upon her. It is believed that many aspects of her personality such as her laugh, voice, mannerisms, and playful antics may appear childlike do to the fact that as a child she may have been forced to suppress these traits, and it was at that time that she remembers truly feeling as being 'herself'. Embracing a time when she feels emotionally confident is equivalent to a time in her childhood.

    Those interacting with Harley should keep in mind that her mental perception and logic did not regress in comparison to her physical character attributes, therefore she should still be dealt with as an intelligent, highly trained, perceptively scheming, and academically intellectual person. A realistic example of her method of thinking would be comparative to a contradictory program being ran by a complex computer that was written by a child, and then allowed to rewrite itself over years of time.

    Harley's relationship to The Joker, can not be fully analyzed without a full review of her criminal counterpart. All current files on the Criminal know as The joker were documented by Harleen Quinzel, and therefore may not be clean of Bias or impartial understanding. General consensus, however, draws such a conclusion that the two have very different motives. Neither of them seems to have a history of implementing plans in the same manner. In addition nether individual had ever admitted to actually following a carefully determined plan of events.

    Entirely differing methods should be used in order to apprehend the two individuals. In my medical opinion Harley Quinn would be a danger to anyone not relating to her as a psychopathic Murder.

    Harley's view towards women is an interesting point of comment when suggesting her mental state and execution of criminal activities. Harley intensely despises the type of stereotype of women she seems to currently employ in her personality. Her knowledge of criminal psychology may have driven her to paint a picture of a mindless criminal sidekick onto the canvas of her personality, knowing that the Police and others would assume she is easy to 'figure out'. Harley's violence towards these 'type' of women in childhood confrontations, has provided evidence that examining their personality has provided a completely engulfing cover for her actual personality.

    The Criminal known, as Harley Quinn cannot be separated from the insanity embedded into her persona by her counterpart The Joker. Separating the two may be even more dangerous to the criminal landscape of this town than keeping them together. The world they both believe in is as real as our world is to us. No matter how much smaller their world's inhabitants are than ours, the two see all of us as intruders asking to be meddled with repeatedly. Harley Quinn is no more a victim of the Joker, than The Joker is of his own love of a really bad Joke. These two individuals feed off one another, and do not accept any vision of a Gotham without either of them, no matter how much their criminal stunts seem to display their hatred of working with one another or their individual drive to 'own' the town of Gotham by themselves.

    Charles Ankers
    Head of Arkham Criminal Psychology Rehabilitation Center.
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