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Cassirin 
Well, that was a very interesting interpretation of her question, but Cade found herself nodding along regardless. It wasn't at all what she'd meant, and yet it was a very good point. Law enforcement needed to be above serious law breaking, but they needed to be above petty rule breaking as well.
"That's a good point, certainly. I was thinking more about needing to know the laws when one was in the field. Does anyone want to expand on that answer... consider other reasons it is important for us to be aware of laws outside our own field of expertise?"
Emily was usually one to try to outshine her competitors/ colleagues, but after entering the training arena, she found herself holding back, flying under the radar so to speak... observing the new kids on the block. And the not so new kids too of course.
Really, to her, there was one very simple, very logical explanation as to why they needed to think beyond their own areas of expertise.
"Leverage," she stated clearly before expanding on her answer.
"Beyond our divisions, we're one unit... we work as one, therefore, being aware of our laws allows us to alert those with the expertise to certain situations, hazards or perpetrators. Call it a consultation of sorts." Not to mention they were M-L-E. If anyone should know the laws, it was them.
She paused briefly before continuing.
"But also... some perpetrators are difficult to pin for their primary misdemeanors, but a crook is a crook and they likely have their hands in more than one cookie jar. So by understanding wizarding law beyond your specific area then we're better able to at least take them into custody for one thing thus providing time to source evidence to do them in for the big one."
See. Leverage. Either way... Being MLE they should ALL know the laws already. No brainer, at least that's the way she saw it.