I never had problems with civilians while i played cop.
quite the contrary!I guess the players who wanna play on Cop side need more protection from civs who r "out of control"!I think a good 1.step is to punish every Civ who kills more than 5 People in one hour mainly if he gets killed, spawns and kills again! nothing else remains to be done...I got a long experience in playing cop and i played basically by the rules but every second time i arrested somebody i need to justify my action (for more than 10min) no matter what he done (Murderer,Robber etc) It's exhausting and frustrating.On the other hand if i got killed and asked for a reason i mainly got just one sentence: Cause im a criminal...
The main problem relly is yes there are rules. The just super vague and around 90% open to interpratation for exsample RP can mean a million things. Theres a non RP rule but there isent a blow up people stuff for no reson rule. or a common one "if you want to kill cops steal the convoy park it somewere and wait for them to come then shoot them"... The rules are just to vague hence the deathmatch feel that arises after a crime is commited.