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* Headscratchers/PoliceQuest2TheVengeance
* Headscratchers/PoliceQuest3TheKindred
* Headscratchers/PoliceQuest4OpenSeason
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!!Series:
* Various aspects of PQ's game rules are screwed up. The game fails to take into account real life concepts such as Probable Cause and Justifiable Self Defense. A guy runs at you with a KNIFE and you get put in jail for killing him?
** Not to mention that your squad car will be fine if you remember to manually inspect the tires before driving off, but if you neglect to do so, you WILL suffer a flat tire. Anyway, shouldn't the maintenance workers take care of that? It's not like you are required to check the fuel and oil level yourself.
** If I remember right, you didn't get put in jail, you just got forced to turn in your badge for misuse of your gun. Either way, the car thing was going a bit far with the whole "rigid adherence to procedure" aspect of the game.
** Police are required to use justifiable force in the pursuit of their duties. This means if someone is coming at you with a knife, they don't have ''murderous'' intent until they either declare it or actually strike the officer, at which point a shooting is allowed. Prior to that, the officer is supposed to talk the assailant down. So, yes, shooting someone coming at you with a knife is not cool, even if you're ''sure'' he's going to kill you. At the very least, the officer is going to be put on two weeks of administrative leave following the shooting, pending review, during which time the case will go ''very'' cold.
*** Say ''what''? I understand that a guy just standing there holding a knife and waving it around but not actually at anyone can (and should) try to be talked down first, but when it devolves to the stage of the guy running straight at you with his weapon out, that right there -- the running straight towards you -- ''is'' a display of murderous intent. At which point you'd think the reasonable man test would entirely allow for shooting him. As for 'put on administrative leave pending review', they do that for ''all'' shootings, however justified, so that by itself proves nothing.
*** One of the points of this series is to tell you that police code isn't always intuitive - you'd be surprised how many people I know who played these games and thought "wtf why can't I just shoot everyone?"
** The guy with the knife (you guys are talking about [=PQ3=], correct?) has the knife on his person, but it's not actually ''drawn'' when he charges you. He's attacking with his fists. The game over screen even says "shooting a perpetrator who's only a danger to you with his mouth and fists is no way to uphold the law".
* Why'd Bonds call in a trained SWAT team to... do nothing but knock down the door of a raided house so he could do the REST ALL BY HIMSELF!?
** If you're talking about [=PQ2=], calling in the SWAT team is optional. If you do send them in, when they launch a tear gas grenade through the window, it becomes fairly clear that whatever's inside the apartment will be compromised. Had Bonds simply gone into the apartment alone, he would have taken the risk that Bains was in there and would've blown him away. Invoking 20/20 hindsight, this obviously did not occur, but still...
** It's actually the sequence in [=PQ3=], the end-game. It very much does not make sense: he convinces several very highly trained people that the occupants of the house are dangerous, the SWAT team brings in an honest-to-god TANK and busts the door down, and then...Bonds rushes in ahead of the ''armed and armored SWAT officers''. It really is a violation of common police procedure, not to mention sense.