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@Keithy Very well put!! It's way too easy to see the bad press about the police. It is much more difficult to see the good and positive things law enforcement does for the communites in which they serve. So I take the time to seek out the positive.
thank you for your input

Its just odd 0.1e and 0.2 is working fine for me. Im using "better stun gun v1.4" do you think that could be conflicting with lspdfr 0.2a?  Ill try some things and see what happens.
Although GTA 5 is much more stable always make backup folders, learned that with lcpdfr lol. All these plugins running along side, something has to mess up from time to time.
Also, I just want to say thank you for lspdfr, you guys make gta worth playing. 
-B
Edit: Just to be clear im not having a graphics issue like mini-poppers just F4 pauses the game with no ragehook UI, and finkones mod also lost the UI.

That is a suggestive question. I think it is pretty obvious that I don't like people who don't know what they are talking about trying to tell professionals how to do their jobs but that is true of any profession, not just law enforcement. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and to ask questions since they pay taxes and are the ones receiving services from the police however they should also realize that they won't be able to understand everything since they don't have the same training, experience, or knowledge that police officers do.

I'm a bit curious as to your opinion on this civilian perspective of law enforcement duties. Apparently everyone seems to know exactly how law enforcement should operate, judging their every action; what do you think of this? 

I don't think that they (the public) don't need to know, I am more than happy to talk about stuff that I've seen and share my experiences, I just think they don't want to know.

You are throwing this question on forums about a police mod, while being yourself an officer. Don't you think those questions are a bit biased? Not wanting to be rude, but to me it sounds a bit like you are just looking for people to comfort yourself in your opinion.
About your questions, I think this is not only a matter of police brutality, but also the mistakes police officers do. Pulling your gun and emptying your magazine into someone's body just because you thought you saw something threatening shouldn't be applauded as "Wow he reacted so quick, good job, here, take a treat". Police officers in the US seem to be much more keen to respond to a situation by violence than in other countries.

The United Statss has a notably larger population than other countries, the third largest population in the world to be exact. It's also the most diverse of the top three largest countries. This can easily play a factor in crime and such along those lines, but that's a completely different discussion. 
Getting back to the discussion at hand, which we've had several times in the past might I add, American police make presumptions because those presumptions have a high chance of being correct in America. What am I saying? When a police officer in America knocks on your house door, they don't stand directly in front of the door. Why don't they? Because there is always a possibility that the person on the other side has a weapon of some sort, and could decide to discharge that weapon at the door. This would likely kill the officer. To prevent this from happening, officers don't stand directly in front of the door when they knock. If we look over to a country such as the UK, this probably isn't an issue there. Police probably don't need to stand to the side, because the chance of someone discharging a weapon isn't as high. What's my point? Police in America do what they feel necessary to keep our streets safe; and to keep themselves safe. One wrong assumption can be the difference between them being dead, or someone behind that door being dead. 

For the most part these topics have already been covered in other threads so I'll keep my answers short as I hate repeating myself all the time.
1. Yes
2. There is police brutality that occurs in this country but it isn't as rampant as the media would like you to believe.
3. For the most part no. There are a few agencies with equipment out there that I believe is a little excessive (MRAPs) but I also think they only took that equipment because it was free as opposed to buying something that would be more appropriate but also costing more money.
4. No, there isn't enough education and if people want to know more about law enforcement tactics and issues then I encourage them to educate themselves on it. However I don't think the public really wants to know everything because it is scary, it is gruesome, and it isn't nice. I have seen some horrible things on calls, things that no one in the public could even imagine and I'm okay with that. I respond to those calls and deal with those things so that others don't have to see that kind of stuff. What I would rather see education be spent on is criminal statutes, case law, and constitutional rights because there are far too many people telling police officers what the law is or what their rights are when 90% of the time they don't have a clue what they are talking about. What they are saying is either taken out of context or completely wrong.
That is because our country is more violent than most other countries. We have a much larger population and more violent crimes than most other 1st world countries and as an American I am not proud of that and I definitely think it is an issue that needs to be addressed somehow.

Which brings the problem of violence in the population as l3ubba said, that really need to be addressed. This kind of behavior is actually spreading world wide like a plague. Every day, I see more and more people being rude, lacking good manners or having access of violence and rage. As if humanity was becoming more and more keen to slash the throat of their neighbours. Violence in every day is a strong issue nowadays.

Well, I believe that this is primarily a result of parenting incompetency. Not everyone is competent enough to successfully raise children, hence not everyone should have children. The source of this spike in violence is quite easy to reach. If we look at this in a chronological manner, what makes violence increase? Well, let's take a look:
Child is born in a rough neighborhood. Child goes to school with terrible educational standards and teaching qualities. Child receives a crap education. Parents at home don't teach the child basic values such as respect, order, and maturity. Child grows up thinking the rest of the world is exactly the same way as his hometown neighborhood. This makes the child not give a damn. Child drops out of high school, turns 18, and is now treated like an adult. Our current education system has failed him at this point. At this point, the "child" doesn't have an education, doesn't have any principle of basic human values, doesn't know right from wrong, doesn't fully understand how economics work, and doesn't have any sufficient guidance from a higher figure such as a parent. Now the "child" isn't making enough money to support himself, let alone a small family if he's had unprotected sex; nor does he have the education or skills required to attain an efficient job. This "child" really only has one option at this point, take what he needs from someone else, crime. Now, he's broken into someone's home, beaten or killed someone, and got himself thrown into jail. What was my purpose in sharing this? To provide an example of a failed child. 
This is the problem that we have here in America. We need to start with holding parents accountable, and ensuring that our schools are educating our youth enough to be self sufficient and successful after their education has been accomplished. We need an education system that recognizes ALL students, not just those who exceed the standards or fall short of them, but those students who continue to try their best and still fail. 
Of course, this is just my opinion. 

1. Yes they do. 
2. As a citizen of another country I can't know the truth. I guess it happens, but during my time in the US (for example, I spent about a year in Baltimore, a city suffering from crime) I saw no cases of it. Sometimes officers acted harsh, but it was totally reasonable. (that's why I was astonished when I learned about B-more riots).
3. When people blame the US cops for being too militarized I laugh because I know militarized police too well. The whole police system in my country is military-like. They use the same weaponry and vehicles as the army even during standard patrols.
4. Again, I can't speak for the US citizens. I am heavily interested in American law enforcement, I search for the info and generally what I want I can find. Not sure how it is for Americans in general.
As a semi-related to the police from a different country (russia) I may say that I had several interactions with the police forces in different countries. So far, the UK and the US cops were the best. I still remember a B-more county officer who, when I told him about myself, opened up his Suburban and showed me the vehicle and the equipment. 

if anyone figures out a workaround to this, please let us know. i thought replacing the update folder with the UPDATED ones and then modding those would solve this, it didn't. now i'm seething with anger and semi-seriously considering purchasing a ticket to rockstar's headquarters in an attempt to find the person responsible, so i can falcon punch said person straight in the jaw because my lighting won't look as pretty as it did prior to the update.
 
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nvm i'm stupid, that fixed it. flight cancelled. 

Ok so I think I have figured out my issue.....
I found out through removing items and putting them back in my GTA game files (Process of elimination) That the problem was within my "mods" folder, more specifically the update folder within the mods folder
Grand Theft Auto V > mods > update
all of the other content within my mods folder ie..x64, x64e and a few other worked fine and the game started up and ran just fine.
So in conclusion by simply removing the update folder from the mods folder fixed my issue. Unfortunately I will have to figure out what skins and things that I have added that I will now need to re download but I will be doing this one by one to hopfully find the source of this in the first place.
Hope this helps you as well 

That would be great to see! With the beaches in GTA 5 being much busier and more interactive than the beach in GTA IV, I think it would be a great idea

Here are some very simple callouts that I think can add a lot to the mod
1 - Suspicious person: You respond to a suspicious person, he can either run, pull a gun, pull a knife or just start charging you with fists.
2 - Officer needs assistance - You back up another officer on a traffic stop, he is contact you are cover, it can either go well, or he may pull a gun and/or speed off.
3 - Man with a knife - You respond to a man with a knife, he may comply or he may charge
 
I think these can be implemented easily but I have never made a script for gta 5 in my life so I don't know.
What do you guys think, good ideas? or not worth it?
 

LCPDFR posted something about beach things. I thought they were going to include the coastguard. 
^^ I am still looking on this on future updates of LSPDFR! Go Sam and the dev team!

​This is a great idea and it also makes me wonder, since gta v has a bigger focus on law enforcement than gta iv did, should there be an option where, for example, if im an lspd officer responding to a man with a knife and i need support. can i call a bunch of high ranking officers in a police transporter as backup versus noose? the idea of being able to play as and call backup for specific units designed for specific calls would really make the mod 1000 times better. but the million dollar question is, is it all possible?

Alittle off topic but....I was messing around with a trainer and spawned as a Black Ops ped with (Not the crappy one) the one that looks like black water "Beards, Baseball Caps, Droplegs and Plate Carriers" I dont think they fall in the "Law Enforcement" ped models persay but I think that would make a pretty good ped for a Narcotics raid team or like we have where i live VCTF "Violent Crimes Task Force" comprised of detectives that mainly respond to...well....violent crimes. Just a thought and wasnt sure if the relationships would jive or not.