Criminals, police, and prisons

[vroomfondel42]

Trying to figure out the correlation between them. Having both police stations and prisons, i figured police would arrest and bring criminals to the prisons. As far as i see this doesn't happen. Somebody correct me if i am wrong.

Also, is there an easy way to spot a Tropican who had turned criminal to send somebody out to arrest them? I see the message " Tropican has become a criminal" and my almanac shows the criminals on the loose. I'm trying to find out if there's an easy way to find them.

[CANIS_CORAX]

You have to manually arrest criminals to put them in prison, so make sure you have the treasury funds. When they serve their time, they become normal citizens again. And yes, arresting them still has the same respect penalties for the criminals family IIRC, but if you are running a stable island, that is nothing to worry about.

Also, the almanac is the best way to find criminals, just click on the criminal's head symbol and it will bring them up.

[Hazel]

Police officers will arrest criminals automatically if they spot a criminal actively committing a crime. Otherwise, they'll only arrest people that you order them to arrest.

The best way to find the island's criminals is to open the almanac and sort the island's citizens by their jobs. Since 'criminal' is considered a job, all the criminals will be lumped together into one group.

[pezito2001]

As Nico said,policemen wil arrest them if they spot a criminal actively commiting a crime.But thats hard,you would like 20 police officers patrolling the streets.

[Cato]

Alternatively if you are running a tight Military Junta just execute the criminal on the street. No need for Police or Prisons then :-P

[pezito2001]

Thats a option.

[theallenfamily3]

Go to Almanac, then Lists, then Job then find the criminals, click their info card and have them arrested, fo like $1000, be sure to have police station, jail, and officers.

[vroomfondel42]

Tried to figure out where to easily find them, never thought to look in the jobs part of the almanac. THat helps alot.

Originally posted by theallenfamily3:

Go to Almanac, then Lists, then Job then find the criminals, click their info card and have them arrested, fo like $1000, be sure to have police station, jail, and officers.

[theallenfamily3]

Not a problem! When I said "fo" I meant "for". Apologies for the typo.

[Katsuni]

Yeah, as stated, police will capture a criminal *IF* they see them comitting a crime... which almost never happens. I sat on that campaign mission for like thirty years and only captured one criminal =P

Instead, yeu can actually go through the almanac as others have mentioned, and just browse people "by job". Some will have the job "criminal", in which case you select that person with a left click, then issue an arrest order, they get dumped into prison for 3 years. After 3 years, they return to society as a new job that isn't a criminal.

To be perfectly blunt, though, yeu don't even really need to bother. I actually didn't capture anyone in my prisons for so long I stopped building them. The prison does lower the crime rate around them, similar to a police station, but it doesn't seem to be quite as effective. Oddly enough, yeu also only need 1 police officer per building for maximum crime reduction. Additional police officers just makes it easier to capture criminals in the act so they can be sent to prison, but as was discussed, this almost never happens.

Ideally, this oddly enough means just build a police station, right clickie on the jobs to drop it to 1 maximum, and there yeu go. Maximum protection for minimal effort. The number of criminals will be kept very low, so yeu won't have many problems, (I average maybe 5-6 on maps with ~600+ people often) which means yeu don't honestly need a prison because the crime rate's low enough that yeu're not missing much. It's more trouble to bother capturing them than it's actually worth =P

Yes, crime on tropico is more easily managed by simply having people so happy that they have no reason to commit a crime in the first place, than it is to bother trying to correct their behaviour by force.

[Twelvefield]

Some missions require that you collect prisoners, so sooner or later you're going to have to deal with crime and punishment. Who needs Frank Pembleton, though, when you can just look up the criminals in the Tropico Yellow Pages (right after Cardinals and Canneries)?

I like setting up the prisons as re-education centers, but it's a costly way to win the hearts and minds of surly Tropicans.