UrbanAwsomeman

As someone in PD that really enjoys towing and managing the impound lot I feel that the server could really benefit from a new government faction focused soley on towing and impounding and this is for many reasons. 1st being most cops are simply too busy to get a towtruck and go impound vehicles that are illegaly parked because of 911 calls and their duty to patrol. 2nd being most cops don't seem to even like towing so if we had more time to do so I doubt more cops would pick up the towtruck. 3rd being a faction focussed on impounding can remove the need for police to respond to the impound lot (apart from arresting wanted people) and you can put the faction HQ in the impound lot so there is always someone there to release your car. 4th being most mechanics are the same as cops too busy to impound vehicles as they have to deal with their customers first as well as mechanic requests. 5th being that people that want to get into impounding RP can do so without having to either join the police or work there way up through the mechanic jobs to gain access to the towtruck. I can speak from personal experience that one of the reasons I wanted to join PD was too impound illegaly parked vehicles. 6th Solves the issue of people abusing the NCZ as there would be towtrucks constantly around to remove illegaly parked vehicles which can free up admins having to clear NCZs themselves. Also deals with cars being left in the street or what have you.

I think what you said here is why we don't need a rule against it. If you think its a bright idea to put your gangs HQ next to a police station as soon as anything kicks off the police are going to be there arresting people before you can even radio for backup. As unrealistic as it is to put a big gang HQ next to say a police station the IC consequences of choosing a bad spot for a gang HQ are enough that we dont need OOC restrictions.

I will be in touch with you guys soon. Have a big project that I need help with.

As someone that spends pretty much all his time as a cop I would be down for some restrictions to PD. The idea of weapons being on a cooldown is good but with the few amount of officers that are actually able to deploy such weapons I don't think it would do much. What people forget is that a criminal can get his/her hands on a heavy weapon quite easily whereas a cop has to go through the training, months of experience for promotions and then they have very strict guidelines on when they can and can not use the weapons. I also think that people complaining about cops going in 1v3 or 1v5 or 1vWhatever is a double edged sword. If you are going to complain about that why do criminals often drive around close to scenes full of armed officers on bikes or park up in cars metres from the scene? sounds like your not fearing for your life. And from personal experience if you want to not have to face officers with heavy weapons all the time up your strategy. So many scenes where we have deployed heavy weapons have been because the criminals have extremely poor strategys for getting their friend back.

Doubt its a hard drive issue as I have GTA V installed on a near 10 year old HDD and I don't experience issues. When you freeze, does the whole game stop including sounds or does the picture just freeze? And what type of internet do you have? Wi-Fi or ethernet and whats the speed? Because I know in more populated areas if your internet isn't the best the game may fail to load things in time resulting in the game freezing.

As a PD member I feel that keeping DeathRP the way it is is the best option. I grant deathRP quite often as I am here to RP and have fun and not to win but quite a lot of people that ask me and other officers for deathRP that get denied are usually because they displayed a very poor level of RP in the situation. We all discuss deathRP when there is multiple officers on scene as well so its not like 1 officer can mean you do not get deathRP. Before suggesting the system be changed you should evaluate if the problem is you first. If your constantly being denied deathRP you are probably displaying poor RP in the situation. Even people I don't get on with on an OOC level I would never use that against them when giving them deathRP. If realistic injuries like the ones you described would grant someone deathRP the same should apply for any injury. A lot of civilians and criminals get injurys like the ones you described in your post and a quick trip to the hospital and they're good as new. Also I don't think you understand how law enforcement deals with shootings. The reason law enforcement generally does not aim for the head and instead the center of the body is because its easier to hit. And law enforcement will not stop shooting until the threat is no more which is what we already do. Also again if you are saying that PD should have better shooting RP criminals should follow suit. Not many gang members should be able to be able to shoot assault rifles, SMGs or shotguns very accuratly but on this server they seem to have military precision. To finish off while I don't doubt someone has probably denied someone deathRP because of their faction affiliation why should everyone else have to pay for that? It's like saying a guy from a faction DM'ed me so that faction as a whole are bunch of DMers. Your painting PD with a very broad brush which is pretty unfair.

I think it should be added but like others have said highly regulated. You could also legally restrict it to the hunting areas or well vetted security companies could use them for their work.

Could also create new underground businesses and allow gangs to run them out of shops. A gang that owned say a property registered as a business could launder money through that.

Another thing they could do to make people want to get rid of dead bodies instead of just leaving them is to allow detectives to examine the body to figure out information about how they died. Such as a rough time of death and what weapon killed him.

When people get arrested everything is taken off of them including food, GPS, radio etc... The problem with this is that when the person is released from jail most of the time their items have been destroyed by someone or the arresting officer is no longer online to hand the person their items back which means they're out of pocket. As a cop I make a concious effort to return items to prisoners after their sentence but there has been a lot of times where I have put their belongings to one side in the PD and come back to grab them to see them gone. Or if their sentence is a long time I am usually not online when they're out of jail so I am unable to hand them their things back. What I am suggesting is like the /pw menu cops have access to to grab things out of there should be another menu added in the PD, SD and DOC HQ that allows the person accessing it to spawn items such as GPS, radio food etc... So the person could go to the front desk, tell the officer what they need back and the officer at the desk can confirm this and then go to another room to access a locker that would then spawn the items for him. While this could be easily abused it could be restricted to certain ranks in the factions that have access to it. And it could require paperwork to be used such as when arresting someone the officer has to make a report on all items found. The person spawning the items to retrieve for the man could then check the report and make sure he man only gets the items on the report back. While in an ideal world it would be better for RP that we keep prisoners items safe for them to collect with the shear number of arrests it's just not feasable which is why adding this would be a good thing.

If we make an exception that PD have to grant death RP if a guy is riddled with bullets from a police chase we would have to do the same for non PD gunfights. Because right now criminals just get shot up and just say in VOIP "Put me in the trunk and take me to MD" or call a medic when they have been lit up by an assault rifle when in real life theres no way they're surviving that. If we impose such strict standards on PD we have to impose the same standards on everyone else. And while the Judicial system sounds like a good idea on paper I have to give it a -1. I have played on a police RP server that had this system and it just ruined roleplay. Every arrest made on that server resulted in the person yelling for a lawyer and a dragged out court case where the officer is expected to record everything that happend or the guy goes scott free. While in real life officers have body cams and dashcams so this isn't exactly an issue it's unfair to expect every PD member to have recording software on 24/7 just to arrest people.

I have a cop and criminal character and have personally never had a problem with the police in the manner that people have been describing in this thread. While the jail time changes are quite significant it will in my opinion make Criminal RP better. On my criminal character the only time I got caught was when I was doing downright stupid crimes such as robbing in broad daylight. People complaining about reckless driving charges don't really have any basis to complain. The law is easy to abide by as theres only a handful of cameras and everyone knows where they are. I personally have dozens of Reckless driving charges on my criminal character but I don't think the jail time change is unfair because I did the crime and now I suffer the consequences. I know that for me personally a lot of my reckless driving charges are because I was already wanted and im going to go to jail for 2 hours anyway if I get caught so why follow the law now? And realisticly no one is going to be serving an 11 day sentence or something stupid like that. Most criminals when they get caught are going to be serving a few hours. And I find that a big complaint here is not actually at the jail times itself but the LSPD faction. While I have personally never experienced or witnessed any of the accusations people are saying in this thread this has no impact on the jail times. If there is actually a problem with cops stacking charges thats a problem that needs to be fixed instead of bandaid fixing it by capping jail time at 2 hours. Saying that I would be in favour of a cap at say 10 hours as a good middle ground. But the majority of criminals on this server aren't going to be serving 10 or more hours in prison. It's just the few odd ones that took advantage of the 2 hour limit to commit as many crimes as they like because they know theres no consequences.

Just don't speed?