| Short Shrift | |
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| Vital statistics | |
| Title | Short Shrift |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Human |
| Faction | Cop, jailer and judge of Dictionopolis |
| Health | |
| Level | Kind of an antagonist |
| Status | Alive |
| Location | Dictionopolis |
Officer Short Shrift is the Dictionopolan cop who is very short. He doubles as a judge and a jailer.
Description[]
He is pretty confident that he has "never seen anyone so guilty", and decides that everybody's "guilty" as soon as he sees them. He is not very fair or logical. His examination of Milo is brief, and he keeps cutting the boy off so that he can make up a new crime of which Milo can be guilty. For example, he blames Milo for not knowing the officer's birthday (27 July). He likes sentencing long prison sentences, but according to Faintly Macabre, he only cares about putting people in prison, not keeping them there.
Name Origins[]
Short Shrift's name is a phrase, which means "little or no attention or consideration gave to the problem". This is a reference to his personality.
Officer Shrift in the novel