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We have wiretapping. As others have said it’s just rarely used because of the logistics and manpower needed for it.

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i joined yesterday at 1.00 am and i was grinding money for hours i did everything they said and i did nothing wrong i feel as if this pk was unjust and i was not giving a reason for this pk i kept to myself. My time with them was a waste i grinded 64k and then i get pked for no reaso.

> did it in real life > we can’t do it on the server Make it make sense old man. To your dismay, there are other aspects of RP on the server outside of whatever gambino does (nothing) and playing blackjack. You also have a tendency to automatically go against any sort of suggestion or idea that could improve police / legal RP, solely because you’re a washed up crim main. Get real. Also did you not donate to get felony charges removed against your character? Get real once again. Every clip of you getting arrested is lowkey embarrassing behavior from a GROWN ass man. Get real once more.

bare minimum let me open a stash while having cocaine withdrawals

real shit fuck rudaj

Let’s not even get into other logistics of this. How the technology works, for example. What’s next? We hire phone phreaks to reverse engineer taps and start whistling nuclear launch codes into NORAD hotlines? Like, get real. Nobody is tapping a fucking cellular phone in 1990. Most recording devices weren’t even recording the “line” back then and simply were physical devices that went in the phone itself. From a legal and technical standpoint, this is so retarded to defend that I’m somehow shocked even the typical knee jerking pickle sniffing fucks are here to argue against what is chronologically sound.

You’re proving my point, not disproving it. The Commission Case is famous precisely because the FBI spent years getting court orders to target the bosses of the Five Families. That’s not evidence that every associate or soldier in 1990 NYC could have their phone tapped on a whim. Especially a mobile phone? Wiretaps existed long before any of this. The difference is they were targeted, warrant-based investigative tools, not the broad surveillance culture and expanded authorities that developed decades later. Getting these warrants were under very strict conditions and guidelines and tons of evidence was constantly tossed due to mishandling of taps. The audio was recorded at specific times for specific periods of time and the only reason so many mobsters got buried was because they were all loudmouths who couldn’t stop boasting about their crimes. Not to mention how many taps were just at a physical location and not actually on the phone. Most of the time the warrants were location based meaning the devices would go in the phone, in the whatever. Tapping a long range line or mobile device would be very tricky in that day and time. I’m sure you’ll find another way to knee jerk and dismiss the reality of the matter, though. Typical clueless Divergian.

I've personally gotten hours of wiretap footage/audio against Kirov, the others we've tapped I can't talk about!

Omnibus crime control and safe streets act. 1968 btw. The commission trial, over a hundred court ordered wiretaps and listening device recordings were used as evidence. 1986 btw.

uh no, we can literally get one because "This guy commits crimes and hes going to have a meeting about his crimes". these retards just dont know how to do things, otherwise they'd be getting done

I will assume it was RICO, murder, or major drug investigations that led to these taps? There were limits on them or what? Surveillance has existed forever in LE but it’s supposed to be physical surveillance mostly with minimal device planting for some other recordings that were often inadmissible without specific permissions laid out in a warrant. A lot of the time they did trash pulls, planted devices in public pay phones for short periods, and watched people from unmarked vehicles. Plus, undercover use… see how well that turns out most of the time.

i used to wiretap niggas all the time

Add flock cameras to Diverge

-1 suggester is making rude comments, deny this already

People are projecting modern surveillance backwards. In 1990, broad electronic surveillance of Americans was far more controversial, more legally constrained, and much less technologically pervasive than it became after the post-9/11 expansion of surveillance powers. The USA PATRIOT Act didn’t invent wiretapping, but it dramatically expanded the government’s ability to conduct surveillance and shifted public and legal attitudes toward it. Treating 1990 NYC like authorities could casually tap mobile phones on demand is anachronistic. If you’re trying to roleplay the period authentically, investigations should rely far more on informants, physical surveillance, warrants, undercover work, and old-fashioned detective work. We should not project modern expectations of ubiquitous electronic monitoring into 1990s RP.

Legislation is already on the books in diverge it just isn't used bc it's aids to enforce it.

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I see you people saying all this shit so often and it’s just so funny how clueless people chat the most shit not knowing what they’re talking about. The City already has in and out of character solutions for dying/dead/low activity factions and how to phase them out, turn their properties over, etc. Really cool “suggestion” though.

Yeah, pal, 9/11 hasn’t happened yet. This shit would not fly in 1990. Come back in 12 years once we get the Patriot Act.

No brainer +1

Remove inactive factions +1

You can do this any time you want btw

Most people don’t realize that, if they genuinely enjoyed the server and wanted to make things right, they could simply make a new character in an allied faction and come back a week later. All it takes is enough self-awareness to acknowledge their mistakes, adjust their behavior, and give it another shot. Instead, most people become self-righteous and mistakenly indignant, choosing to blame everyone else before moving on to something else. On top of that, police characters have an incredibly low chance of ever being mugged, PK’d, or facing many of the consequences that people playing criminal mains have to deal with. It’s easy to see why some dickless weasel would gravitate toward that role. The appeal is obvious through that lens. I know cops are necessary, and I always appreciate the people who play them well and genuinely roleplay. But let’s be honest: most cops are complete dunces. A lot of them are essentially side characters whose only purpose is to fuck over someone else’s criminal main. The slightly better, but just as common, version is the cop main who barely roleplays and exists solely to grief other people’s main characters. It’s sad that the cop I should fear and hate the most, an intelligent badge with a genuine passion for investigating and fighting crime, is the rarest kind of cop in the city; one I practically have to wish upon a fucking star for.