In chapter nine, Deckhart attempts to apprehend Luba Luft for the first time but she calls the “police” on him and he is brought into a police station that doesn’t know he exists. It is revealed that this station is fully populated by androids and is fairly self-sustaining. They have their own bounty hunters that hunt androids with their own test of distinguishing androids. Phil Resch is one of the ones living there, and he’s very quick to throw Garland under the bus as an android. He’s extremely eager to kill androids, but is shocked once he finds out he is an android. Resch believes “that the best place for an android would be with a big police organization such as W.P.O.” (Dick, 109). Resch has a point, because he is fairly good at taking out other androids.
If there is an entirely self-sustained police force that has their own test to determine androids, how would they rival the force Deckhart is in? Is it possible that Deckhart and his force is full of androids that would fail the “reflex-arc response” that is used at Mission Street Hall of Justice? Could Deckhart be like Resch? How effectively can one truly measure humanity if differing tests exist like this?