Headscratchers / Police Quest 3: The Kindred

• In III, How did Morales manage to get a promotion to Homicide as your partner in the first place? Even if Internal Affairs didn't have enough evidence to bust her for criminal activity, her history of insubordination and belligerence should have still been enough to keep her in Traffic, if not had her relegated to a desk job or Reassigned to Antarctica. Maybe they couldn't prove the destruction of evidence, but those other infractions on her written record were very much verifiable. Especially because at least one of them you yourself corroborated and confirmed.
  • It's implied that the higher ups want someone to rein her in, and since Sonny is such a by-the-book cop, maybe the thought is that he'll rub off on her.
  • Politics. She's a Twofer Token Minority (female and Hispanic). The novelization had a few characters note that she got her position as a (in their words) "double-barreled affirmative action hire". Though Sonny did say that she "may still be worth saving".