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I honestly prefer Blodo's solution. Lawful players patrolling has never been the issue. It's how infractions of various laws are dealt with. Have it so only reports witnessed by an actual military/law enforcement players in the border systems are legit, and the problem goes away. No need to go hacking IDs up in a round-about attempt to address the wrong issue.
Jack, you say write a draft - a good initial draft would be "total rollback and then work from the ground up". I strongly disagree with doing something purely for the sake of taking action, especially when the proposed action doesn't even fix the problem it was supposed to address! All this will do is harm server gameplay and there's no two ways about that. The problem was never with the IDs. The real issue is more general and wider-encompassing.
Also, if you're implying there was a specific reason behind the decision that you and Laura were privy to / aware of, sharing it might be helpful instead of being obtusely cryptic. Help the rest of us get an understanding of what motivated a bad idea.