Maybe she was thinking "the job market for PhDs stinks. I better do this job the way I am expected. And these hoodlums don't deserve to get off on technicalitie

Maybe she was thinking "the job market for PhDs stinks. I better do this job the way I am expected. And these hoodlums don't deserve to get off on technicalities-- the cops wouldn't collar someone they didn't know was a crook."