First of all, I am not sure if the subject is in the right section of the forums, and whether it has been brought up already or not. Since I hadn't seen it, I decided to open a thread as it came to my attention. Not only me, though. Many, many others I've spoken with as well.

It has come to my attention that bailing someone out isn't done as realistically as I hoped for when I entered the HPD. Since the beginning of bailing to now, it has been done ridiculously fast from one day to the next. Now I do understand that it is the player's right to get bailed and/or released upon OOC request, visitations, etc. That is not my concern. It can get dull and boring, or you have a pre-planned roleplay ahead that needs to be finished.

However, I realized I've arrested in three days two of the same suspects who in three days pulled another nonsense on street to get arrested, and in the same three days, they got bailed out by one person. That was 10,000x2x3=6,000$ we talk of. And it was shrugged off with another dismissive wave. At that time I hadn't known they have to remain at least one day in cells before they could get bailed, because everyone I arrested in the past got bailed out by others within two hours of being put in jail.

Ever since I learned that, I tried to roleplay it by telling the officers: check the reasoning of arrest (whether it's a gang member or not) and check how long they have served jail time.

Bailng isn't the issue though. What has been troubling me is the realism of the roleplay: Hathian is considered a low-class pitch-poor town with perhaps two-a-three modern rich private lots in Vodou and whatnot. If anyone would have such great amount of money, would be the collected money of gangs. However, I haven't seen any gang-member bailng one another out.

What I have witnissed past few days (a reason I finally decided to open this thread) is that Credit Cards no longer are accepted, and thus they need to bail by check, money order and cash. Someone was going to use her credit card and the officer told her it is no longer accepted, and then the roleplay went: "Oh, no problem at all here have it cash." And plops 8,000 dollars on the counter with a smack and a smile.

That means the player walks around town with 8,000 $ money. The instant switch and the whole attitude of 'I am rich anyway' has increased so much that I wonder where the realism of the roleplay is. And I truly wonder whether the Den truly is as poor as it looks like.

Hope my point is crossed without offense, and to hear other people's opinion.
Yes, I am well-aware many citizen work, have the money, but we speak of 5,000+ dolars on each bail. What I secretly hope when everytime someone comes at the station for a bail, is at least a realization how much money is going to get wasted on someone's bad attitude. That is over two months of working, and no-one in real-life would like to work their asses off for someone's bad attitude who gets arrested.

That is why I really hope in the future something would be done to have it played more realistically.