Community Service Time for Small Charges
I've been told other cities have a Community Service sentence for lesser charges. Currently we just have fines and jail time. Usually, at officer discretion, we lessen the jail time in certain circumstances to promote fun crim/pd activity. I've never experienced the Community Service idea, but it sounded interesting. For those who don't know, I believe PD can sentence you to "X hours" of community service. You are sent to a public area like Legion, Vespucci Beach etc and you have to pick up garbage/clean the area for a number of months/minutes based on your misdemeanor charge.
I feel like this promotes crim rp because they can get sentence to CS hours in public view within the city, compared to a few months up north.
I also feel like it improves PD and Lawyer interactions to help negotiate mid-level charges to CS.
This would involve work with the city and pd to formulate what types of charges can be given CS hours, but I don't have any issues with helping facilitate that part of the change.
Personally I hate sending people off to jail. Feels like a punishment and theres no reason to put someone in jail for 20 minutes because they engaged in a fun RP scenario. I think an alternative such as Community Service would be alot better than punishing someone outright.
I'm the same for small crimes or lesser charges. I imagine the members of COSA would support this as well.