Got this idea in my head after seeing all the AUs revolving around Bellwether winning in the Museum and making her anti-predator regime a reality. For this story, Nick indeed killed Judy in the museum and was subsequently detained by the ZPD, who Bellwether fooled with her story.

This will be mainly OC-centric but canon characters will play a part.

I hope you like it. Enjoy!

Zootopia: The Effect of Power

Prologue

It had been fifteen years since ZPD's first rabbit officer Judy Hopps met her end at the jaws of a savage fox named Nick Wilde in the Natural History Museum in Savanna Central. The entire city mourned her passing, the passing of the one who found the biological link between predators and their savage ways. A link that one Dawn Bellwether, new mayor of Zootopia, was hard at work attempting to solve.

Predators going savage had increased dramatically from the original case file of fifteen missing predators that the ZPD had taken on. Those numbers skyrocketed instantly after Judy Hopps' death. This heightened the call for predators to be regulated and controlled in defense of the primarily prey population of the city.

With much regret, Mayor Bellwether passed the infamous Muzzle and Shock Collar Law, declaring that all predators be outfitted with a shock collar containing a tracker to monitor their movements. Those with a history of aggression were required to wear a muzzle outside of their homes, the kind of muzzle being based on the animal's past aggressive actions.

There was backlash against this, of course. Predators from all over the city protested against this segregation, declaring it species profiling and separation between past dietary habits. Most predators had no interest in the prey population. Those that had gone savage shouldn't reflect back on predators that had never done anything wrong.

But the calls for control and protection by the prey drowned the predators' voices out. That was the perk of being over 90% of the city's population.

And Dawn Bellwether followed the majority's call. The law was enacted six months after Judy Hopps' death and declared to be in her memory. Bellwether urged other major cities to follow her move, citing sources that pointed to other savage attacks in cities worldwide.

A movement was born, but not everyone happily jumped on board.

The criminal underbelly of the city was forced completely underground to avoid encounters with police and supporters of Bellwether's regime. Many of these animals, the Big family above all else, were listed as individuals to be detained and added to the tracking system. Those that refused to submit often did not survive.

Some cities protested heavily against the laws in Zootopia and the violent segregation between predators and prey there. Zootopia lost quite a bit of support, which only made Mayor Bellwether push her agenda further. Those cities that refused to aid the effort found themselves being swamped with savage attack cases of their own without warning. Many lives were lost in these mysterious swarms of attacks.

Small towns and villages out in the rural countryside saw no reason for the segregation and, separated by great distance from the big cities, did not see any savage cases in their hometowns. Many of these places were forgotten about in the support scramble and remained off-radar. The publicized attacks on the big cities caused many of these animals, predator and prey alike, to avoid any further moving and perpetuated the suddenly influx in belief that staying where you are is the best option available. Small towns' populations boomed drastically.

One such case was the tiny farming town of Bunnyburrow, now infamous for being the place of birth of one Judy Hopps. The Hopps family made up the majority of the town's citizens with their hundreds of children, nearing five hundred now since Judy had died. The past fifteen years had been hard on the Hopps family but staying depressed was not in a bunny's nature, especially those of hard-working carrot farmers, like the Hopps.

The fifteen year anniversary of Judy's death was now accompanied by a new milestone in the Hopps' family. As they said goodbye again to Judy, they now also had to say goodbye to another member of the family.

For the first time since Judy had died, the ZPD had a new rabbit officer in their midst.