Safety

Crime

What kinds of crime exist, what drives them up and how the police prevent them, respond and lock offenders up.

Police officer

Wherever people live, work and shop, things happen. The more residents live within a station's reach, the more cases it gets.

Types of crime

Crime	Typical	Response
Petty crime	the bulk of all cases	one patrol car, short
Theft	common	one patrol car
Serious crime	rare but dangerous	two patrol cars, often a chase, arrest into a cell
Shoplifting	grows with every shop job in the area	one patrol car, short
Domestic cases	grow with discontent	one patrol car

More happens at night than in the morning.

A casino nearby, it draws crime strongly.
Lack of schooling: areas without a school have more crime (School).
Bad mood in residential areas.
Discontent: high taxes, unemployment, overtime, long commutes and bad air (Discontent).
Many shops: shoplifting rises with trade and shoots up when people are discontent.

The police window shows you today's crime and its biggest driver, for example "discontent 30 %" with the main reason.

Prevention: a fully staffed patrol prevents up to 50% of all crime. Drones and helicopters prevent a bit more, together at most 65%.
Responding: every case is a call to the crime scene. If no car is free for too long, the case is left unsolved.
Arrests: for serious crime the police arrest the offenders. They spend 36 hours in a cell. If all cells are full, offenders go free.

Unsolved cases, released offenders and incidents lower the safety of the tiles (Incidents and Failures).