They are among 18 men currently being held at West End Central police station helping with inquiries relating to offences including conspiracy to murder, fraud, demanding money with menaces and assault.
But you do not have to subscribe to this school of victimology to worry that there are dangers in using inflexible rules to brand a growing number of people as menaces to society.
The school's vice-principal (Richard Roundtree) menaces the hero like a cop grilling a smart-alecky gumshoe, and the distant sounds of cheer-leaders are heard as Brendan is pursued through the schoolyard by a knife-wielding goon.
Military camouflage really started in the middle of the 19th Century with the introduction of khaki, he says, but what we think of camouflage now evolved in World War I to counter the new menaces of aircraft and submarines.
The tearful ghost of Joy's rejected suitor Andy (Paul Reuben) begs for another chance, while her husband Allen (Michael K. Williams) menaces her during Timmy's bar mitzvah after killing himself because she left him when he turned out to be gay.