You're nicked

[Dashiell]

In a way, being a cop in reality is then "power abuse" since we shouldnt rob people of their freedom and fun. We should let murderes walk freely in the street, after all they might enjoy murdering. OR, shall we actually allow the cops to do their job and ARREST the criminal?

If the cops cant arrest people, we might aswell remove all the police factions as they would be completely redundant

Altough I agree with you that police factions need a 'fear factor' like I said earlier, the /arrest command in my suggested form is a pretty powerful tool. And you know what some people do when they get power...

To some extent, yes, it is powergaming (sort off)

That's why I liked the suggestion that Anesteze made. the surrender and arrest command(can) work in conjunction. that way the pirate can submit to the arrest command of his own free will.

---