People who know me from before know that I'm very opinionated on hot-topics around the state of Argonath, and I've spotted that this has apparently become one lately, so since it has turned to an apparent "form" about it, outside of the thread I saw prior about a protest or whatnot, it's time I put my two cents into this ordeal.
Since returning, I've been abused by "free-cops" twice. They suspected me for crimes I did not commit, but their dreams of taking me out thereafter never came to fruition, as the first only took a few shots into my vehicle, and never got a good shot on me, and the second never got close enough to me to even take the shots. Soon after the abusive /su occured, my status was returned to normal by online admins, when I simply asked them to fix the issue, and they did.
We have had problems before with abusive police, which was mostly silenced (or attempted to) by the change of the police skin to all (or rather mostly) application only skins. However, the free cop idea is extremely glitched in the concept of how many abuse commands to make a cheap buck, and it's disgusting to see the immaturity of people who do such things.
However, after reading the protest thread, and hearing of how people in it or whatnot have punched, or otherwise assaulted these essential Rent-a-Cops, even though the opinion on such an attack was that it was only "minor" at the time, all you're doing is rioting people to death-match and perform illegal acts against these free-lance officers, and are thus not making the situation any better at it's current rate.
In my honest opinion, I believe what should have been done in the first place, was that you filed a formal complaint to the Argonath administration's head-team about the situation, included a few screen shots of the abuse, or of people being abused by these officers, and let the admins and moderators handle things accordingly. However, you took a more direct and hands-on approach, which resulted in an issue becoming a conflict.
I just ask as an Argonath businessman, civilian, and general interest-taker, that you refrain from taking things into your own hands in the future, and instead file formal complains, and let the administration take things into consideration, before anything happens or someone gets angry at the way these free-cops are being treated, and takes things way overboard (then people end up banned, and before you know it, a minor infliction becomes a server-wide catastrophe).
Alright, now that this statement is out of the way, you may return to your usual programming.
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