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Here's the thing: If you think it isn't considered a firearm, and you're wrong, you go to prison. Ask a lawyer. Seriously. The only thing you should rely on for this is legal advice from a lawyer in your jurisdiction. Unlike anyone here, they actually have legal expertise AND have an attorney-client relationship wit you.

I was about to say something about the legality of starter pistols, but on second thought, ASK A LAWYER. If you have specific legal questions, especially those where a wrong answer sends you to prison, ask a lawyer who is licensed to practice in your district.

No good. Under federal law, convicted felons are barred for life from possessing firearms. That means that no state or department could allow them to ever be police officers, even if the state/department felt sufficient time had elapsed.

Do NOT wear a badge in public if you are not entitled to it. If anyone can see it, it absolutely is impersonating an officer. And it depends. If the pistol has the capability to fire real bullets, it is a firearm, even if you load it with blanks. If not (like if it's a starter gun), it probably isn't a firearm for regulatory purposes, but would likely count as a firearm/a deadly weapon for most more serious offenses (brandishing a firearm, armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, etc.) In addition, carrying a fake gun as though it is real is an excellent way to discover that police have guns which are NOT fake. In short: Going outside with a police badge and a starter pistol is an exceptionally bad idea. The badge is an excellent way to get the felony charge of impersonating a police officer. The starter pistol is an excellent way to not be charged with anything, because you've been shot dead.

I will say that our band swung this song, and it does sound rather funny swung (and is fun to play straight as well).

If it's constant-width, I also find that simply stroking curves can do wonders. If you do that, it automatically keeps them constant-width, and the design process is (IMO) simpler.

I've hidden the digression over grammar. That's not what this thread is about. If you want to discuss grammar, start a new thread.

No. It might be based off of New York City, but it isn't New York. It's Liberty City. It contains nothing at all that says "New York"; everything says LC. Whatever you do, the game still considers it the LCPD. Billboards say "Join the LCPD". Police stations have the LCPD logo. Cops shout "LCPD! Pull over!" Even gameplay elements don't match up with NYPD; real NYPD patrolmen do not carry shotguns, ever (it's restricted to ESU and detectives who serve warrants; the idea is that quick massive backup makes heavy weaponry unnecessary, as dozens of cops and a SWAT team are never far away). It isn't the NYPD, and nothing can make it the NYPD.

But we don't plan on charging for it. This is a free mod, and we plan on keeping it that way.

I actually switched from high-poly to lore-friendly, because I switched from desktop to laptop and can't run high-poly. However, I do still use NOOSE. I just treat it like some kind of JTTF thing, where NOOSE is a federal agency whose LC division is a specially trained detachment of the LCPD.

I could never do anything *but* LCPD. It's not actually possible to completely change the game from talking about LCPD to talking about someone else, so my hand is somewhat forced in the matter.

Yeah, it's funny, not inappropriate. Not sure if there are viruses, but seems unlikely, seeing as it seems to be the website of a legitimate business, just having some fun.

Sorry, but that isn't what the media reports as much. White-on-black crime is reported much less often than black-on-white. The more photogenic the victim, the more likely it is to hit the media. Sadly, "photogenic" and "white" have substantial overlap in the US news media. Also, is there some reason to think this is a real trend? One thing the media LOVES to do is take something relatively which is not a new trend and spin it as the latest scary thing. See: DDOSing (when it's called "hacking"), sexting, shark attacks, etc.

What criteria are you using to define "defensive"? Because whatever criteria you use, I don't see how the Civil War was defensive and WWII was not (also, please tell me you didn't mean to say the entirety of WWII was a single battle, because that would honestly be among the stupider things I've ever read in my life). In the Civil War, we didn't so much respond to military aggression as political aggression. The initial attack went north-to-south. Not saying that it was unjustified, because a) that's a whole other topic, b) I think it was, and c) political aggression is still aggression, but WWII saw the US fighting 3 countries who had actually declared war on us. The US didn't declare war on Germany out of nowhere; Germany declared war on us after we declared war on Japan after Japan declared war on us and also bombed us. WWII definitely counts as defensive.

That probably says just as much about the job market.

If you move purposefully, act like you're supposed to be doing whatever you're doing, and act like you don't expect to get stopped, you can do pretty much anything. Someone walking confidently with a clipboard, a hi-vis vest, and a generic ID card can go anywhere.

Perhaps I should warn no one, and we get back on topic.

This is a lovely discussion, but doesn't it belong in the politics forum?

The vast majority of police cars I see are still CVPIs. Take-homes in particular can last a long time (I think I've seen 8 years somewhere) - cars in general are built to last, and take-homes aren't driven nearly as much or as hard as pool cars.

What's it look like ingame?

Aiming for the tires: Because CLEARLY the situation justified the use of lethal force. For those saying he's backup: If you don't know what's going on, you shouldn't shoot. Whenever you fire a gun, you should have an idea of what's in the area you're shooting at. Firing a gun at tires of an occupied car is already automatically violating most of the rules of gun safety: if there's no imminent threat to life, you don't shoot a gun, period.

You're also missing an important point: If the city's standard laptop is a Dell Latitude, then when a cop's laptop breaks, they can issue him a new one and take the old one for repairs. OTOH, it'd be really expensive to add Toughbook repair capabilities to the IT department; they're probably specialized on Latitudes. Police don't drive super-armored vehicles that are impervious to damage from being driven hard and bumping into stuff; they drive vehicles that can be repaired and are easy to handle a fleet of. Laptops need be no different.

If he's found guilty. Arrest is not conviction. For all you know, the prosecution could drop charges, or reduce them to misdemeanors, or he could plead it down to a misdemeanor, or he could get a plea bargain that results in no jail time, or, and this is quite possible, he could go to trial and get acquitted. The fact that you're arrested on felony charges doesn't mean you're going away for a long time.

Visual Basic also works, as it is exactly equivalent to C#.