Corrupt Cops

[Divey]

Greetings Fearless,

Today I am bringing news of a new rule clarification. For quite some time there have been many queries and complaints regarding the state of our police force and especially corrupt cops. This has lead to many instances of rule breakage and confusion from the community as to whether or not arrests were indeed in-character or not. To solve this, we are introducing the following clarification at the bottom of our rules, where explanations for doom forts, etc are.

Corrupt Cop

Sometimes you may want to role play as a corrupt cup, unlike other custom job specific jobs, such as being undercover, you don't have to make a request from the President to become corrupt. Being corrupt means that you can do certain things a normal cop does not have access to, unlike serving the city for a good cause you have your own selfish self-interest. To become one you first have to put corrupt either in your job or character description (which can be done by doing /job Corrupt Police Officer or go to f1, character, personalization and enter it in your description). 

Due to your greedy nature being a corrupt cop means that you can accept bribes to get criminals who have committed petty crimes out of prison sentences, you can be rude to criminals/prisoners and you can ignore petty crimes to characters you know and have interacted with in-character and are actively role playing with (Ignoring crimes of your OOC friends is not permitted if you have not established a friendship IC beforehand).

Petty crimes are small law infringements (such as jaywalking or doing drugs) and that aren't in the public eye. if you see a IC friend mugging someone you may turn a blind eye, but having a friend rob a store which has been reported to the police is something that you can't ignore.

What you can't do is be rude to people for no reason, although you are corrupt you still don't want to lose your job by being reported. You also have to actively do your job, this means you can't stop going on patrol just because you're corrupt, even if you don't have the best interests you may want to patrol to see if you can accept bribes for small crimes to make your wallet bigger. Planting items on people to have a reason to arrest someone also comes under power gaming and is not permitted. You also cannot believe you are some god-like figure who is beyond repercussion, this means that you can't go around breaking FailRP and constantly screaming at people or purposefully breaking peoples cars.

We believe the following will help crack down on corrupt cops, stating what someone can do within the profession. This is what we think is the best way to go about this and we will see in future as to whether or not it works out or not. We are aware that there is more to be done and we are conscious of the current state of our rules and we are always listening to your criticisms and or praise, whether publicly or in the shadows and there is definitely more to be done.

[sebasti161]

nice job

[General Rickets]

Sure I've seen this somewhere >.>

[Fultz]

Great start. However in that it doesn't specify whether or not arrests can be reported ooc. I felt like it is implied in there but never actually stated.

[Divey]

It comes under the rules, so if you see someone going against this, feel free to report it in @ or elsewhere.

[[LT] Sparx]

[sebasti161]

what if i actually buy cocaine or heroin and drop it on the ground and pretend it fell out of their pocket is that powergaming

[Ethan Bradberry]

I really don't see how this will crack down on corrupt cops, nor do I see how planting false evidence is powergaming.

[Ethan Bradberry]

what if i actually buy cocaine or heroin and drop it on the ground and pretend it fell out of their pocket is that powergaming

Exactly, this is basic corruption roleplay and the fact that it is considered powergaming is stupid.

[Spuddy]

Greetings Fearless,

Today I am bringing news of a new rule clarification. For quite some time there have been many queries and complaints regarding the state of our police force and especially corrupt cops. This has lead to many instances of rule breakage and confusion from the community as to whether or not arrests were indeed in-character or not. To solve this, we are introducing the following clarification at the bottom of our rules, where explanations for doom forts, etc are.

Corrupt Cop

Sometimes you may want to role play as a corrupt cup, unlike other custom job specific jobs, such as being undercover, you don't have to make a request from the President to become corrupt. Being corrupt means that you can do certain things a normal cop does not have access to, unlike serving the city for a good cause you have your own selfish self-interest. To become one you first have to put corrupt either in your job or character description (which can be done by doing /job Corrupt Police Officer or go to f1, character, personalization and enter it in your description). 

Due to your greedy nature being a corrupt cop means that you can accept bribes to get criminals who have committed petty crimes out of prison sentences, you can be rude to criminals/prisoners and you can ignore petty crimes to characters you know and have interacted with in-character and are actively role playing with (Ignoring crimes of your OOC friends is not permitted if you have not established a friendship IC beforehand).

Petty crimes are small law infringements (such as jaywalking or doing drugs) and that aren't in the public eye. if you see a IC friend mugging someone you may turn a blind eye, but having a friend rob a store which has been reported to the police is something that you can't ignore.

What you can't do is be rude to people for no reason, although you are corrupt you still don't want to lose your job by being reported. You also have to actively do your job, this means you can't stop going on patrol just because you're corrupt, even if you don't have the best interests you may want to patrol to see if you can accept bribes for small crimes to make your wallet bigger. Planting items on people to have a reason to arrest someone also comes under power gaming and is not permitted. You also cannot believe you are some god-like figure who is beyond repercussion, this means that you can't go around breaking FailRP and constantly screaming at people or purposefully breaking peoples cars.

We believe the following will help crack down on corrupt cops, stating what someone can do within the profession. This is what we think is the best way to go about this and we will see in future as to whether or not it works out or not. We are aware that there is more to be done and we are conscious of the current state of our rules and we are always listening to your criticisms and or praise, whether publicly or in the shadows and there is definitely more to be done.

Thank god