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-1 by far. (I know I am biased as hell here, however I want to try and dissect this.) The suggestion when first read makes sense in a whiteboard perspective. Opening the door to more action against the PD would make the PD on more equal footing within the city as a whole. We're missing the other ways the PD, especially the Detectives Bureau and DOJ, is held back. Its already an underdog fight. Legal RP is a very slow, meticulous process, with many, many moving parts not really visible to much outside the PD. For example, Kirov Bratva takedown last year was a six month operation. It involved many people, including UCs, day in and out to find evidence, develop strategies on taking down individuals using such evidence, and then.... the doorkicks and property seizures, etc. It looks like maybe a 1-2 person job from the outside, but inside it can be over twenty people in some cases. Once the doors are kicked and charges are filed, months of work gets put into motion. This is part of the reason why on an average basis, organization charges/takedowns happen roughly 2-4 times a year. They're not exactly simple find, point, charge, PK sorta things. This process starts with a slew of both written, and unwritten rules both IC and OOC. From faction consideration, operation planning (as strategies have to constantly be changed and adapted on the fly) , and execution involves many manhours of work, before any actual investigation even starts. Many times, UA tickets are opened for consultation before an operation is even attempted because if successful, we know the first thing that will happen will be a UA ticket being filed, trying to overturn it. This is not even bringing up the concerns that many people have before even considering becoming or assisting UCs. We have had people threatened OOC, harassed, and blacklisted from practically every faction in town because of their choice to try going UC. The risks are present, even if the official stance is that according to the rules, they are currently lower-risk. There is already avenues for non-DA/DOJ or even non-PD characters have for going after potential dirty cops. An entire court system is present, ready, and willing (honestly begging) for civil cases to try and litigate issues. For criminal charges, if a dirty cop is exposed in a criminal case? The case is likely to be tossed via an impeached and shamed witness. The avenues are present, however are seldomly used. In the scenario of the 13 arrest warrants above? MAYBE 1 or 2 go to trial. 10 will delete their characters, 1 will just never get back in the server ever again, and the 1 or 2 going to trial are usually lower ranking, making the case more procedural rather than a true fight. As the guy who has been helping run the Detectives honestly for far too long, I am aware of the odd balance the bureau has on the city. Go too hard, and the main purpose of the game is moot. Make it so that being a detective is a constant liability? The already strained bureau will likely collapse, and the PD in general will become nothing more than meter maids and whiteshirts who find a gun at Probationary to shoot people. I should know. Typhon servers allowed for PKing detectives and easier rules on raids. It just led to low ranking detectives going vigilante, and trying to just shoot their way out of a case problem, rather than actually try and work a case. Including considerations to allow for DAs and ADAs to be threatened, and potentially killed for trying to prosecute a case will, once again, make an already strained group even more strained, to the point of absence. Why even get on the job when you'll just be selling out to threats from everyone? I could go on and on about how this is effectively suicide for LegalRP as a whole. This idea once again, makes sense when you believe legal and crim RP are equals, when in fact they never have been, and are designed currently to be asymmetric.