that’s a red herring and a false cause.
I've just explained it takes a committee of people.
So to explain this further: If the complainant or the defendant are unhappy with the decision, it can be disputed and sent for a "revote", if deemed valid by PSD, where another group of people will vote on it, who previously did not vote.
The only time a complaint can be exonerated, even though a policy or law violation occured is when policy 10.4 of the complaint committee is invoked. Which for those who are unaware: CC Members can choose to exonerate a complaint on the basis that a rule violation occured (such as 3.4), which impacted the Officer's decision making.
Complaint Committee members are NOT allowed to vote Exonerated if they believe a law or policy violation occured.
As for no punishments being issued towards officers, here's the query string to search for "as an officer" just for warnings in SCAMBans:
https://bans.perpheads.com/warnings?reason=as an officer
The only red herring in this situation is your statement.
Source: I'm part of CC for a decent amount of time
Unlike regular reports, there's A LOT more to cover in these types of reports. IA complaints should typically not take longer than 1 week, but it depends entirely on when it's completed (from thereon it can take some time before a CC Meeting). An officer can be suspended for the time being if the offense is deemed bad enough to warrant it.
It's also a 2 week process, because unlike a ban, once you are punished in the PD you can loose potentially a year (or more) of work and effort, permanently.
Source: I am an IA Investigator
I think you don't understand the perspective of someone who prefers to play cop: Anything higher than a Reprimand will at the very least stunt your progression in the PD for the minimum amount of 30 days (Imagine you getting a ban from assault rifles for a 30-90 days as Civilian). A demotion is downright shameful to these players.
Additionally, we really don't get all that many reports on officers as one might think (Except the classic: "I'm being falsely arrested"). I rarely deal with even one per day. Officers simply get into far less situations where a lot of the rules can be violated.
And even when we do get those reports regardless of
@Collier saying it's mainly for "blatantly trolling", it's still handed out for other rule violations such as 3.4 and so on. In fact we've got specific instructions TO NOT dismiss reports against officers and TO NOT directly send people to IA.
Source: My record. There's actually 2 of them.
Personally, I think because a patrol cruiser goes 80 MPH and RTU is even faster, then being able to go 100 MPH is totally fair game because there needs to be Counter-play by letting criminals drive faster against multiple officers but not too fast that they can’t keep eyes.
Understandable, though I have a different perspective from being a cop: Yes those pursuits can be fun and I am not denying that. However they stop being fun when it's over every tiny little thing as then PD resources dillute down and once again the "multiple officers" become 1 RTU and 2 Officers who clearly don't know where they currently are. Whilst that's going on there's 2 shootouts that you also need to respond to.
It's very hard to balance this without overpowering the PD or underpowering the Civilians.
I'm tired of trying to explain these things and will likely stop responding to this thread as it just appears you're looking to debate someone over something that has been explained. Our stance (the staff team) is clear and it's clear the majority of the votes agree with our stance.
At this point it seems like I'm not being debated (which I don't want to do to begin with), instead just being rage-baited.
