Crime high

[nerdthisname 1]

 My crime is glitched. No matter how 230 squad cars (no downloaded police, just original ones) can't solve crime of a small city of 50K hab. crime keeps coming. I could call my city Peach, since its all yellow and orange and red. Heck, I get fighting in police stations and red crime in police stations. I have "Crime doesn't pay" (I re-enact), "No- Crime- Crime simulator mod", Neighbourhood watch sign (doesn't produce cars), but no. Bank robbery, arson, assaults galore. In police in front of police, just about everywhere. No matter how hard I try placing 3 Deluxe stations in front of a freakin' red crime, police gets red crime too.

It seems that one year the ordinance stopped working for no reason (I think this could also be linked with another ordinance which stopped doing part of its job):

Can someone tell me the heck what is happening to my city and what to do?

My police are dispersed all over my city.

Note: One year I had no crime, next year had crap crime. I didn't download nothing in the STEX and the year was continous, so it couldn't be an idiot who may did an upload which created crime in secret.

Slight change to the title.

-CaptCity

[paulmc 393]

Hi, I had a problem about crime sometime ago, I also had many police stations but it didn't matter. What solved my problem: to build enough prisons to keep criminal detained. Check if you have enough prisons, it may helps.

[nerdthisname 1]

Originally posted by: paulmc

Hi, I had a problem about crime sometime ago, I also had many police stations but it didn't matter. What solved my problem: to build enough prisons to keep criminal detained. Check if you have enough prisons, it may helps.quote>

My police stations have one or two inmates. I built a jail. It has 2 inmates and didn't help 

[paulmc 393]

Are you using Maxis police station or some downloaded station ? I used a downloaded station that gave me problem because it dragged down all budget to police, so I had to bulldoze each station and to built a working one in replacing.

[sc4fanatic/slayer 3]

okay well i have some tips, have large police stations next to large lots like, airports, country club, movie studio ect. also destroy a bunch of your police stations and do not put to many in one place or you will get even more crime. just enough to cover the city. you may also want to try downloading a bigger police station also make sure you have plenty of funding for your police

[nerdthisname 1]

Originally posted by: sc4fanatic/slayer

okay well i have some tips, have large police stations next to large lots like, airports, country club, movie studio ect. also destroy a bunch of your police stations and do not put to many in one place or you will get even more crime. just enough to cover the city. you may also want to try downloading a bigger police station also make sure you have plenty of funding for your policequote>

I have aprx 15 deluxe police in front of my airport, 10 aprox. near my movie studio and countless cameras-on-road. I've downloaded a police with 200 cars and a large radius, but still is nothing is working.

[nerdthisname 1]

Originally posted by: paulmc

Are you using Maxis police station or some downloaded station ? I used a downloaded station that gave me problem because it dragged down all budget to police, so I had to bulldoze each station and to built a working one in replacing.quote>

I have not downloaded any station BEFORE crime ocurred and I've be not monkeying with police budget (I had it at default and increased to max when crime started). I've downloaded a station with 200 cars SIMYEARS later and nothing happens.

[sc4fanatic/slayer 3]

can we see a picture?

[nerdthisname 1]

Crime in police station. Some police in front of airport. 

[paulmc 393]

show us crime map and police radius map if possible, also tell us if this problem happens in every city or only in this city.

[dehyan309 3]

Wow, the criminals are striking the BIGGER police station. I'm sure i've seen that before in game but that's a very odd thing to happen.

About your problem, did you plop a Casino in your city? Its side effect is increased crime. Although I've always experienced crime at my plopped airports.

[nerdthisname 1]

Originally posted by: dehyan309

Wow, the criminals are striking the BIGGER police station. I'm sure i've seen that before in game but that's a very odd thing to happen.

About your problem, did you plop a Casino in your city? Its side effect is increased crime. Although I've always experienced crime at my plopped airports.quote>

Once I got fighting crime IN there. No, I don't have a casino, but I have Country Club. However, it worked fine for years (I had it like in yer 6 and I'm at year +25

[His Divine Hand 244]

Alright, first thing, apparently when Maxis made the game, they decided that all sims are lazy, including your police!

How lazy? Well, your cops will only walk three tiles from the road to fight crime. Larger lots like airports and country clubs are too large for the cops to get to every tile, so crime haven!

[SC4BOY 21]

The easiest and most effective way to limit crime (aside from cheats) is to assure that a road, avenue, street, etc border ALL SIDES of large lots. Police coverage is a function of "tiles from the road/whatever". Police coverage only extends 3 tiles IIRC from an automobile-type road.

[nerdthisname 1]

I spam police. I have nearly 15 aprox the airport and 18 aprox. the Country Club. And what are those cheats you speak of?

[SC4BOY 21]

However you DO NOT have roads or streets around the lots on all sides as I can see in your pics. Wrt the cheats, I don't know as I don't use them... did you search STEX for crime or police? I've never had to "spam" police.. On rare occasion if there is a very dense area, I may have an overlap or two, but normally only single coverage. Crime also goes down as neighborhood desirability goes up and as education goes up.. In fact if you "spam police" I'm surprised you have not gotten the "police state" complaint.. forget exactly how it's worded.

[Dumanios 35]

Crime in my cities are a pain as well. Especially with Airports (Why is there no Airport security?) and Country Clubs. And I've had pie throwing in a jail. (Who keeps allowing the inmates to have Pies?)

[SteveMSim 275]

The designers at Maxis decided that all cities must have crime to a varying degree, no matter how strong the police coverage is. They consider crime to be an inevitable fact of life in any city. The police stations are supposed to reduce crime within their coverage area, not eliminate it completely. Population density is supposed to play a factor in determining the amount of crime as well. The designers apparently felt that large lots should have more crime than small lots, but they not have police coverage to go more than three tiles inside the lot, hence the large lot crime bug.

You will never eliminate crime from your cities completely without resorting to cheats.

[AustinSimMayor 0]

I have a city of 110k+ people. Nearly 4 - 7 crimes each month. Idk what is going on with yours. 

I have a New York City styled city with around 118k, and around 8 PDs. Average crimes commited are: Car Theft, TP'ing, Pie Throwing and Graffiti. Sometimes a couple assaults here and there, but otherwise, nothing bad. Usually less than 10 crimes committed each month.

[CorinaMarie 29,894]

Hiya, @AustinSimMayor. Welcome to Simtropolis!

 

3 hours ago, AustinSimMayor said:

I have a city of 110k+ people. Nearly 4 - 7 crimes each month.

Do you have the Crime Doesnt Pay mod installed? And, I suspect, your city has a high overall EQ?

[rsc204 21,866]

As has been said, crime is not something you can do away with entirely. However, very large lots do have unintended effects, which is where the Crime Doesn't Pay mod comes in handy. Likewise, the more educated your sims are, the less crime you should have overall. Another factor is also down to how many jail places you have, some are provided by police stations, but beyond a certain point a dedicated facility will be necessary. If no where exists to hold criminals, they will just leave the system and commit more crimes. But, if adequate facilities exist, only a percentage of sims will re offend, since jails improve the odds a criminal will be rehabilitated.

But mirroring society in many ways, no matter how much of a utopia you make, some people will still want to throw pies in your face .