Not to mention that Marcone's favors aren't free. Even if he never actually called in any direct favors from her, Murphy would always know that she was only be able to keep her job because of Marcone's support, and it would always be in the back of her mind that if Marcone decided to stop supporting her she would be unemployed again.

Then there's the fact that a lot of her fellow cops (and let's not forget she also comes from a cop family) would know or at least suspect that she must have cut some kind of dirty deal to get back on the force.

 

Ellisande, my post made perfect sense.

And you missed a comma, so your first sentence was a fragment. Deuce.

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Chengar, I may let you make in on the family thing.

But Marcone offered her the position for taking out the Turtleneck's. So it wasn't for free. And since WHEN can only the bad guys manipulate? Why can't she take the job for taking out the turtlenecks, then do what she wants to do till Marcone gets tired of her in SI.
Like I said, its not probable for ANY si investigations to mix up with Marcone. And then she has access to every file in the system, and can do a HELL of a lot more good then she was doing just doing lookout with werewolves.

 

You're not getting it. She's not willing to be indebted to a criminal. Period. There's really not much more to it. She refuses to owe Marcone anything. That's all it is.

 

I think you're forgetting that three of the books (including the very first book in the series!) start with SI getting called in on cases involving Marcone: Storm Front, Fool Moon, and Small Favor. Plus his involvement in several of the other books where SI got involved and having people on the inside would have been all kinds of useful (Death Masks immediately springs to mind).