However, there were uncertainties with this approach.
What she feared was the police tipping off the culprit and coming back empty-handed. If the criminal was a mutated human, the police probably wouldn't be able to handle them with conventional methods.
After all, most humans in the fourth world were, strictly speaking, mirror people. Their reactions had to be reflected into the real world and then reflected back. But this criminal had very likely gained their own consciousness. A conscious entity against an unconscious one—the outcome was obvious.
Let's say the police in the Mirror World believed her anonymous tip. This reaction would be reflected into the real world, and the police there would take action. The police here in the mirror would naturally do the same, setting up defenses, staking out, or laying an ambush in the residential complex where the criminal was about to strike.
