RP before Engaging

[Slartibartfast]

I'm sure you can do better then that, but yeah it could end up boiling down to which ID you were arresting and what they did in responce. I cringe at the idea of officers going to fatal measures so quickly following the words "you're under arrest!" (Murika?), suddenly the term arrest no longer has meaning and yet simply saying "You're going to be murdered!" will suffice as an engagement notice to a hostile ID so you probably wouldn't get a vote for sanction from me and more a notice saying "I'm sure you can do better then that."

That's all well and good, but when's the last time that kind of a situation actually had a "fatal" outcome on this server? Everyone survives everything on Disco because of untrackable pods that never malfunction.

And I think the policeman could do better than bring the criminal with his ship (loaded with deadly weapons) in intact

I'm probably in the minority here, but I think the OP's example makes more sense.