I agree with this, but I think we should make it a percentage leveled to make it even across the cities. Since you crackdown with the CA's it caps at 120. Perhaps make it like 50% of the CA's? I mean they are dirty cops. They could be in jail for anything for just holding time or something. Maybe make it randomized. If there is 50 CA's in the city there is a roll of percents like wack and that's how many go in for being "dirty" and investigation by IAB.

"If he has enough influence to keep you out, why can't he keep himself out?"

This seems like an important line of thinking to me when considering this.

Well for one thing it's a sentence of 0 seconds as opposed to 10-20 minutes so for a small sentence he doesn't bother, or the fact he has been picked up drunk and disorderly, possibly paralytic which wouldn't be a stretch for a corrupt officer wondering where he went wrong in his life.

Its a fair point Flash. I guess it just comes down to whether or not the users feel having the CAs there is beneficial, or not?

There isn't any point in us dressing it up in various angles. Were here first and foremost to produce changes that are wanted by the users. Having given this some more thought, I'll be removing my sponsorship. Removing CAs from crackdowns appears to be detrimental to the overall users and as Flash pointed out, it can be argued in many ways to show perfectcly fine reasoning as to whether there is a legitmate scenario for them to be included or not.

I am still really liking this idea, especially given the quote above that Grin pointed out. But also as Warrior has said, we are here to make decisions based on the players. Which is why I'm not making any decisions either way until we've heard from more players, not us bantering back and forth.

Before I even knew there was a suggestion forum I had asked in IRC how CAs got in jail. I definitely think it would make more sense for CAs to not be in jail because if they can keep us out when we commit felonies they should damn well be able to keep themselves out when they're yelling on some corner after one too many.

The problem I do see with this though is what part of the jail population is reduced less so than the reduction in jail population itself. You need the low guarded population for newer characters to be able to build on. I had a weird experience in PH this evening where everyone in jail had at least 3 guards so I couldn't break anybody out. If this is done it may be nice to have it coupled with some other kind of lockdown option for purchase, like something that costs a small fraction of a credit that a new user could get from achievements but only locks down people with very few or no guards.