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"They are what we call 'poly-criminals' as well, so not only are they involved in organised immigration crime and trafficking but also in drug smuggling, firearms trafficking and often violent and serious organised crime."

Crime rising on Northwest Los Santos Los Santos Sheriff Joseph Cline told the Sheriff Commission Tuesday that the Northwestern side has experienced a 50% increase in shooting victims this year compared to the same period last year. A total of 8,651 people have been shot in Los Santos year-to-date, 865 of which have been done in the Northwestern area, and the city is averaging about 27 shooting victims per week, Cline said. Last week, 162 people were shot in the city per week. The city has had 421 homicides year-to-date, compared to 250 homicides during the same period in 2021. "The two challenging areas are homicides and aggravated assaults, as has been this entire year," Cline said. Aggravated assaults in the city increased by 9.5%, and the largest increases have been in the Morningwood and Bay City area. Cline added that there is "significant involvement" of Caucasian people in aggravated assaults, both as victims and as offenders. Homicide arrests have increased by 51% this year compared to the same period last year, and weapons arrests have increased by 83%, Cline said. Murderwood Gets Wild is a fictional tagging crew consisting of caucasian characters with the sole purpose of making money and just having a good time. For any inquiries on how to join/or if you have any questions, forum PM @XIK or @Sim

March 21st, Charleston Projects You aren't sure what to make of what happened today. This boy from another hood was beating on your homie. You watched until it was over, and he was catching his breath. Then you elbowed him in the side of the head. ----- He went down like a bag of bricks. He knew what he was signing up for, didn't he? What were you supposed to do? You wouldn't want someone to do nothing if that were you. ----- It surprised you when he hit his head on the sidewalk. There was so much blood, more than you've ever seen. Popped like a melon. You and Rodrigo had no words to say, at the time. ---- You felt sick. You felt your head swimming. You got hot in the face and thought you might fall down. But you just couldn't stop staring at it, could you? ----- What's wrong with you? Why would you do that? You wanted to hurt him, but did you want to kill him? Are you a murderer? ----- You tell yourself it was an accident. Accidents happen to people, don't they? That's what Josue used to tell you. That's all this is; just another happy little accident, right? ----- Is intent everything, or is action all that matters? March 22nd, Carson Ave You and your homies went beefing with the Trannies. For the first time you got brought along on a big affair. Okay - maybe it isn't a big affair. But it mattered to you. ---- You didn't sleep at all last night. Every time you close your eyes you see Cam's head blow open on the sidewalk. You couldn't tell your madrastra about it. She'd never look at you the same way again. ----- The whole lot of you kicked a few teeth in. What a rush that was. Like lightning in your bones. You've never felt so good in all your life. ----- Then came the low. The adrenaline wore off and you started feeling sorry for yourself. You went for a bike ride to the LTD. That's where they found you. ----- The same people you and your friends got into it with. There were six of them, this time. One grabbed you by your waist, pulled you off your bike. Threw you face-first into the sidewalk then stepped on you. ----- You can't remember much past that. You can only remember waking up and calling Sergio. You couldn't feel your legs, so you crawled down the sidewalk. You crawled as far as your arms could drag you. ----- You don't know how far you made it. You only remember waking up in a garage with Droopy and the gang. They iced your head and put a shirt on it to stop the bleeding. Your eye was swollen shut. ----- You couldn't go home that night, because Rosana would see. She'd see and she'd know. She'd know you're out there doing the wrong thing. You're not so sure you want to settle for right, after getting a taste of wrong. March 23rd, Brouge Ave You still had blood in your hair the next day. You woke up feeling sorry for yourself. Your whole body hurt. Worse than any sports practice or gym trip you've ever taken. ----- You still couldn't go home. You couldn't open your right eye, not even a little bit. You were laying on the grass like a little bitch. How are you gonna be a gangster if you give up so easily? ----- What would your homies make of you? You and your pussy behavior. Pull yourself together or you'll wind up a mark. Get a grip, faggot. ----- Noel and Rodrigo pulled you out of the grass. Took you back into the garage and sat you down. The former iced your face, then he did your nails. Then washed the blood out of your hair. ----- No boy's ever done that for you, before. It put you over the moon. You couldn't stop smiling at him. All the while, you forgot who the real homie was.

As someone who has been part of multiple Western RP projects in the past, including one on SA-MP, I believe the setting itself lends itself better to the limitations of text-based roleplay. Red Dead RP would be refreshing because: 0) No "cameras" anywhere, so no need to argue about what would be recorded and what wouldn't, no arguments on the forums about if it's realistic to do XYZ in ABC place. 1) No phones or radios. No good excuse for why some players need IC VOIP over others. 2) No social media or other IC websites. Means more of the gameplay happens in-game. Still room for forum components, like boards for postings. 3) No nightclubs, DJs, or supermodels. Cuts out some of the most vapid parts of RP. 4) Less IC bureaucracy to hide OOC bureaucray behind. This was a world where you could make it just fine without knowing how to read or write, and you were answerable to very few government organizations--licenses, permits, inspections, so on. 5) There is a better IC justification for the world being a violent shitshow where everyone's carrying guns and ready to fight or shoot each other over small provocations. 6) No shitty non-RP driving and dumb looking cars. I'll take people with dumb haircuts on their horses and launching their four-legged companions into trees any day. 7) Police aren't as big of a deal, and people are more responsible for protecting themselves and their own communities rather than some ultimate organization. Suddenly the police are no longer this omnipresent, super OOCly protected organization, but just another faction like any other that needs to rise, and that people need to either accept or contend with. 8) More opportunity for "criminal" RP which makes sense for the setting. 9) Communities grow ICly as they would in reality--rather than portraying a fully functioning first world metropolis where we're supposed to have all this human infrastructure, it's up to the players to ICly build up the infrastructure in their communities--policing forces, medical services, and so on. 10) There's more day-to-day slice of life RP available to people. Good storytelling often revolves around conflict. The conflicts of the modern world are mostly pretty boring and easy to solve, mundane. They don't make for good RP. "I'm out of groceries, I need to go to the store" can be a decent background RP on GTA:W with the right people, but it's not much of a conflict--you get in your car and go to a store. That's why most conflict RP on GTA:W is people threatening to kill each other or botched robberies and other attempted murders over minor disagreements. There'd still be plenty of this in a Red Dead RP community, but there's also a lot more room for people to always figure out something their character can be actively doing. I think RP in Red Dead would just generally be a better fit in with the medium available to use--a slower pace, text-based RP. Less ADHD of trying to run around the map making it to openings or getting called in the middle of RPs to go to other RPs, less businesses competing for attention, more organic neighborhood-style RP (which is what we've seen works best for long-term RP). It wouldn't be perfect. Red Dead roleplay would have a smaller target audience, so we'd be looking more in the ballpark of 50-150 player peaks, and it's a very large map with no easy IC way to coordinate over distances. Realistically, most of the RP would take place in and around one or two main towns players have developed around, and the wilderness would be pretty wide open (I think this would be awesome though). Certainly you'd have a lot of characters which don't "fit" and it'd take some extra moderation and coaching to help players adapt. Most controversially, however, the community would probably have to make some concessions together in order to create a more interesting roleplay environment. Some very difficult conversations would need to be had about how "realistically" we want to portray the rights/standing of women and non-white races. Roleplay in a historical period would definitely attract a lot of people who just want to have an excuse to RP incredibly sexist or racist people. Even if the community came to the sound agreement that we'd bend historical accuracy to allow people a more positive RP experience, there'd still be plenty of RPers who'd try to force racial or sexist conflicts. Some would argue that these conflicts form the backbone of the genre and getting rid of them is inauthentic, boring, and "pandering." The Western Genre as a whole is rife with incredibly racist caricatures and stereotypes, would those be the norm or would we buck them? Where would we draw the line on what's "too modern" and what's not? Would people RPing openly gay characters be OOCly punished, would there be an expectation that they will face severe IC discrimination and violence, or would we hand-wave that we have some modern, pragmatic sensibilities about this sort of thing? No answer is correct, no answer satisfies everyone, and every answer leaves a lot of gray area for what is and isn't acceptable divergent behavior. tl;dr: I think it'd be awesome, but I don't think it'd be awesome for a community the size of GTA:W. We have too many people here, too many opinions, too many ideas of what RP "is" to please. This diversity is usually a strength in GTA:W, and on this community you can find almost every kind of RP you'd want if you take the time (and have the luck) to find RPers who mesh with you. A Red Dead RP server would need to be a lot more focused with its mission and objectives, and it'd need to draw some harder lines about what sort of RP fits and doesn't fit. This will drive away lots of people, but if it attracts a solid core group of heavy RPers it'd be one of the best RP experiences of any video game in our lifetimes, guaranteed.

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Container Ship Fire - 3/30/2022 Office of The Director of Port Authority Monday, the 28th of March, The San Andreas Port Authority and Los Santos Fire Department received a mayday distress signal at approximately 19:30 from the Daisy-Lee, a Capesize-Size Bulk Freighter which was inbound from the Port of Gioia Tauro (Italy), reporting that a wide-scale fire had broken out aboard the ship. CBRN Units and Hazmat Teams of the Port Authority and Fire Department were dispatched and arrived on scene within minutes before docking occurred. The Daisy-Lee was observed to have been engulfed in flames at the bow and mid center regions of the ship, quickly spreading towards the astern section as evacuations of the crew occurred. The Port of Los Santos was put into full-scale lockdown as the situation unfolded. As of this release, only two crew members of the Daisy-Lee suffered casualties, both critically injured with third degree burns and respiratory issues. Both victims were transported to PHMC and remain in their care currently. Members of the Fire Department bravely fought and suppressed the fire, allowing for Port CBRN Units and and FD Hazmat teams to board the vessel and search for any remaining passengers, none were found. Investigation ensued and the cause of the fire has been determined to be the improper care and handling of UN/NA 2029 Hydrazine, a flammable, poisonous and corrosive chemical agent. (Emily Khan pictured center left, Michael Baker center right) After the ship had been deemed secured by Fire and Port personnel, Director Preston of the Port Authority had personally congratulated scene commanders Engineer Emily Khan of the Fire Department and Safety Superintendent Michael Baker of the Port Authority for their efforts demonstrated that evening. The San Andreas Port Authority has seized the vessel and its remaining cargo for processing by insurance investigators and Customs Officers. The Bureau of Safety had conducted further inspections, deeming the vessel un-seaworthy for future ocean travels. The estimated losses, including the value and contents of the vessel equates to a near total of $300,000,000 (three hundred million dollars). Which Director Preston has stated is "A devastating blow to our local and national economy." Director Preston and Governor Brandt have remained in contact with the company that owns and operates the Daisy-Lee to negotiate a cost effective and environmentally friendly cleanup project to demolish and discard of the vessel. A deal has yet to be reached between both parties, but talks have suggested that the Port Authority will contract and help co-pay a ship breaking operation via public contract to break-down and dispose of the ship while it remains stationed at the Port of Los Santos. Further details will be announced via the state government's website by the Port Authority. **Comments would be enabled and heavily moderated. Threats, profanity or racial slurs would be automatically filtered out or removed by government moderators. The same would apply to offensive usernames.**

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