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Bodhi suits more for final shootout scene :)

I guess topicstarter and others mean American cops and cophaters. But that exists in all other countries. Here, in Russia, cops are usually hated by the majority of people, and that's for reason. Those who walk on the streets - they usually arrive from far regions, there people consider police salary in a big town a fortune. They work for money and they don'k like working too hard. They don't know laws and they don't care about them. Moreover, they have statistic. If there's a low crime rate in your area you may find out your complaint is listed as a false alarm. If there's a high crime rate and cops are required to bring in like 10 drunkards, 2 thieves and 1 hooker, be prepared to be arrested. Of course you can get a free lawyer and try to prove innocence in court. Guess what? Those lawyers which are provided for free, by the law, they like their job, 'cause state pays good whatever the outcome of the case is, and cops like convictions. So if you have no money and you took a free lawyer, he'll recommend you to plead guilty, then share his payment with the cops. Police salary is actually low - so they cover drug dealers, org crime, hookers, muggers, slavers. My mom's friend once called police because of her neighbors being too loud at night. Cop showed up and told her to shut up or something bad might happen to her. Detectives? Oh dear. In Russia where are police detectives and Investigative Committee detectives. Police detectives are even more dirty than their beat colleagues, because they have more information. Got your apartment robbed? Go on, pay like one third to a local detective, and you'll get you stuff back. You want to silence your rivals? Pay some money to operatives, and they can tear his house apart, arrest him, search his personal data, or worse. Investigators are better. They are less corrupt - thanks to good supervision. But they don't care. Their job is office job - draft a resolution when you're assigned to a case, another - when you list someone as a suspect, then another - during a search, make three copies, one to a DA, on to a suspect, on to your chief. Oh, and don't forget the deadline! Or you'll face a reprimand. They prefer to get the case in court and forget perp and vic altogether. Yes, there are reasons to hate police here. Strangely, I work here. More than a year and a half and try to do my job. Sometimes its hard, sometimes its awful. Some of my friends done talking to me since I'm a pig. But still there is somebody who says thanks. This is the best part of it, really. When I was young, I dreamed about pursuits, uniform, emergency lights, shootings and all that. Now I know that's nothing comparing to a someone who just got their kid back and says thank you, or a person who almost lost his home to fraud. In a nutshell - well, cops are bad here. Crooks are worse. There are good cops, and I never saw a good crook.

Actually, I tried. I'm in law enforcement. Similar crimes are investigated by police in Russia, and usually they solve them pretty quick.

Those examples are not high-end crimes) It's not so hard to use CCTV to find several young assholes who walk around and harass people.

I do understand that.. .Anyway, it's so easy to criticize sitting in front of the pc the decisions that cops have to make in urgent situations. I only commented cause I saw (and slightly took part) in a similar situation in Russia, and even our cops set up a perimeter rather quick. I was somehow disappointed that mighty NYPD didnt :(

Yeah, I ve been to NYC. You want to tell me what if half of cops in cruisers and on foot, who were just following that crazy moron, turned back and made a line, the crowd would break thru them only to see the show? Disobeying a lawful order of a police officer is an arrestable offence, if I remember it right. If an officer is assigned to such crowded place he should be taught some basics of crowd-control. What if there's a bomb or a man with a gun? Cops will fail to contain people and simply state that "We can do nothing with those awful civilians"?

For some creatures dying is a much easier penalty than a life imprisonment I'd say. Maniacs, killers and all that don't deserve a quick escape. Spending their all life in a small room with no windows might teach them something. However I don't think that one was a maniac or something, and that makes cop's death more tragic...

Damn, and that's the most professional police force in the world? Didn't even try do stop the crowd. Some civs were dangerously close to vehicles, and no one gave a shit.

They are fine with what they have, less to worry if someone scraps the paint.. There are (or were) some CVPIs in Moscow Traffic Police, I even have photos of them, and they are used in Belarus still, too. Can that be considered Europe?

I used it on 1.0b... But switched back to 0.95 today, it's way more stable with PH. I tried disabling random events in PH .ini, that did help indeed, but after a month playing it suddenly started crashing again and again.

Nothing can beat the magic simpleness and charm of non-ELS vehicles made by Ekalb and liveried by Yard1 and DLer :D For me, those high-poly light-flashing paint-glowing brand new cars just don't suit right. So God bless that thread

Isn't it possible to file a discrimination petition to a local DA or whoever oversees all that? This is purely a discrimination, in my opinion

Why would he shoot him, that's more interesting.

Oh it's really nice, however ambulance script works a bit randomly: I had a wounded streetracer and a pedestrian down, the ambo showed up and a message appeared "where's no wounded peds here"

OH GOD I can't believe my eyes!

Did you think she was joking or what?

Then I represent Russia, I guess. I'm a Senior Investigator Assistant of the Investigative Committee of Russia. This is a federal body which only conducts investigations. The actual policing is carried on by the Police force of Russian Federation. Each subject of federation, municipal district, and city houses a subdivision of the police which reports to headquarters in Moscow. Nothing like American system, sadly. RFP has many different divisions: 1.State Traffic Safety Authority, which is responsible for road safety, traffic enforcement, vehicle&drivers' database. Ordinary police are usually unable to pull people other for traffic offenses, and Traffic Cops usually do not interfere in crimes. Frankly speaking, those guys are cowards and also corrupt as hell. 2.Public Safety Authority. Primarily uniformed patrols. 3. Special Units Authority 4. Special Mobile Unit Division - provides heavy support to regular police during public events, manifestations, however, they are not like SWAT, more like heavily armed police in vests and with APC. More military-like police, yeah. 5. Investigative Authority (only certain crimes) 6. and Operational Authority. and more, like IID, but they're not too interesting. Investigations are primarily carried by the Investigative Committee of Russia. However, Russian criminal process includes two main levels. Investigators do procedural stuff: file protocols, conduct official interrogations and searches, open and close criminal cases, and charge individuals. But they - or should I say 'We", cause I'm a part of that system now :D , we lack 'muscle'. An investigator usually carries no gun&cuffs, has no lights and sirens, don't break into apartment or give chases. Police Operational Authority provides that kind of support. They do that 'detective movie' shit - spy on people, chase them, gather evidence, search for people. When Investigators need heavy support, they are able to call in the Special Mobile Unit, to forcefully break into on a search warrant, for example. Hope that'll be interesting for some people :D

Well, EFLC has better cam positioning by default, somehow more voiced cops, and looks slightly better (comparing GTA IV anf TBOGT with no ENB, ofc) But for me the only one single apartment where you spawn is annoying, I can't get to my precinct in Alderney in time and commissioner always be yelling at me :c

Dayum, y'all, I be ridin' in ma' tractor an' I be drinkin' ma' beer nir ma' ranch when I see dat outsider stealin' ma' cows wit a forklift! These city boys shore are ignert...

LCPDFR 1.b has an option to press 'M' by default, which causes all traffic in a vicinity to stop and remain like that until you press it again. Cannot be compared to wonderful Abraxas' cones, of course...