As some of you may know I led LPI for two years while it was official and I had an amazing time with great people. So I feel I can make a small comment about this. Police as everyone already knows its not really different that any lawful faction. You fight the bad guy and that's it. What made police factions different back then was the people playing them and how they played them. You didn't have people playing solely Navy factions because they can do war and enforce laws. You had people specifically wanting to play police factions for that type of RP the donut and all that jazz. As time moves forward it seems most people don't really want to play police factions and that's ok. We can sit here and debate for ages but if there was any meaningful change I would bring to the indies it would be to allow them to have the /nodock command. It would give police an edge in law enforcement rather then waiting 4 months for official.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to struggle against entropy. - V. Havel