Goonhub
05-31-2017, 06:42 AM
"Do the crime, do the time." 
I thoroughly enforce space law and often get a lot of slack for it. If someone is breaking into somewhere, I'll warn them to stop, ticket them, and tell them to move on. This very simple act of trying to keep the station intact draws the worst out of some people. I'm often met with insults, violence, or am completely disregarded.
This idea of a "change in the community" is a lofty goal. People feel it's within their right as a non-antag to trespass, break into places, steal items, carry weapons, and so on. So much so, that they are often willing to behave as an antag and damage station, attack officers, evade arrest, etc when confroted about it.
Now, this doesn't mean I'm against someone breaking down a wall to steal some gloves if they're not an antag, but they have to realize that they are breaking the law. This is one of the reasons I feel Space Law needs to be better defined and understood by the community. People need to know what is illegal and legal: what's okay as a non-antag, what's pushing that line, and what's stepping over it.
It's a grey zone that will shift in the eyes of the officers on duty but don't expect to get away unpunished if you're carrying around a flamethrower, hacking doors, or wandering into areas you don't have access to.
It's in this light that we should approach everyone on station.
I try to be fair and give everyone a chance to show their innocence but when that person then turns around and punches me, they're going to the brig. When they then try continually to escape instead of serving the 10 second sentence I was likely to give them, the timer goes up a few minutes. When they try to attack me, destroy Security, use weapons against me, they're going to get stripped of their ID and tossed in the brig for the full five minutes, and they might "slip in the shower or trip and hit the doorknob a few times" if you know what I mean.
I thoroughly enforce space law and often get a lot of slack for it. If someone is breaking into somewhere, I'll warn them to stop, ticket them, and tell them to move on. This very simple act of trying to keep the station intact draws the worst out of some people. I'm often met with insults, violence, or am completely disregarded.
This idea of a "change in the community" is a lofty goal. People feel it's within their right as a non-antag to trespass, break into places, steal items, carry weapons, and so on. So much so, that they are often willing to behave as an antag and damage station, attack officers, evade arrest, etc when confroted about it.
Now, this doesn't mean I'm against someone breaking down a wall to steal some gloves if they're not an antag, but they have to realize that they are breaking the law. This is one of the reasons I feel Space Law needs to be better defined and understood by the community. People need to know what is illegal and legal: what's okay as a non-antag, what's pushing that line, and what's stepping over it.
It's a grey zone that will shift in the eyes of the officers on duty but don't expect to get away unpunished if you're carrying around a flamethrower, hacking doors, or wandering into areas you don't have access to.
It's in this light that we should approach everyone on station.
I try to be fair and give everyone a chance to show their innocence but when that person then turns around and punches me, they're going to the brig. When they then try continually to escape instead of serving the 10 second sentence I was likely to give them, the timer goes up a few minutes. When they try to attack me, destroy Security, use weapons against me, they're going to get stripped of their ID and tossed in the brig for the full five minutes, and they might "slip in the shower or trip and hit the doorknob a few times" if you know what I mean.