Love this post! Just wanted to add one thing i feel could benefit the community. Some characters had chose to go into the gang side of things for a bit and after going to jail a couple times realized its not really worth the troubles and decided to quit and become a civilian. Now, if this person ever wants to join law enforcement they will be auto declined since they have a criminal record.
there should be methods in place to give players a chance to prove that they really want to switch sides and they would have the knowledge associated with it.
let alone lapd and sasd. Even dcc wont hire you if you have a record which is kind of shitty so even if someone does not want to pursue a career in crime they will forever be stuck a civilian