police/crime

[dansgek74 1]

i had a city with no crime and started education soon in the game

at one moment i looked if i needed a police force...0 crime..

wanted to get casino and know that it gives crime

so first set the police and  wanted to wait with the casino so the force was running perfect

next min. i ploped the policeforce suddenly crime everywhere

why? is the police the only one seeing the crime??

[tnobles 38]

I believe this is just another of the agent bugs, or broken agent. I have a city with no C, just R & I and it took about five months before criminals showed up. Now, seven months later, there is no arrests and over 60 criminals.

[Griffon 19]

I think the game syncs every 5mins because when your building great works it only updates how much resources are sent every 5mins, could be why it takes a while for crime to show up, I never noticed it in anything other than great works before

[tnobles 38]

I think the game syncs every 5mins because when your building great works it only updates how much resources are sent every 5mins, could be why it takes a while for crime to show up, I never noticed it in anything other than great works before

Yes, you are close to correct. However, I'm talking months. Hold your mouse over the time and the month and year will show.

[Jack_Bauer_333 2]

I believe this is just another of the agent bugs, or broken agent. I have a city with no C, just R & I and it took about five months before criminals showed up. Now, seven months later, there is no arrests and over 60 criminals.

 

I think that criminals robs only commercial and casinos (not 100% sure). So you have some criminals in your city but they have nothing to rob. Only harm they do now is being usless people instead of workers / shoppers.

[CaribbeanSail 33]

I am running into this bug with my newest city.  Population 200k, has all 3 zone types and all wealth types.  There are 200 criminals in the city, but to date, not a single crime has ever been commited or an arrest ever made.  I have a large police station and a small one, but they wont arrest unless they criminals actually commit a crime. 

 

Exiting and loading the city again does not fix it.  Criminals still do nothing. 

[Griffon 19]

I am running into this bug with my newest city.  Population 200k, has all 3 zone types and all wealth types.  There are 200 criminals in the city, but to date, not a single crime has ever been commited or an arrest ever made.  I have a large police station and a small one, but they wont arrest unless they criminals actually commit a crime. 

 

Exiting and loading the city again does not fix it.  Criminals still do nothing. 

might be a bug, but police don't make arrests unless criminals are currently committing a crime, the helicopter follows the criminals around who have committed crimes until the police cars can get to them, if you research the detectives at the university they can arrest criminals who are not currently committing crimes

 

and if you have good police coverage I think it scares the criminals into not committing crimes, I've had a city with detectives and it said 200 criminals per day, 50 arrests per day, and 0 crimes committed per day

 

but then again it could also just be a bug like you think

[UntCaptain 6]

I'd like to add to this by saying im currently running a low wealth high density city, 100k population, full education with 4500 students going to my university. I have 1 or 2 fires a month which get put out. 3 - 5 criminals, 0 crimes committed 3 - 5 arrests. The detective wing for the police precinct is fantasitc and I recommend it. My hospital... Well I'm drilling for oil, mining for ore and coal, then processing it all into plastics and alloy, making processors and then onto computers. So I have ALOT of health issues. But that's off point.

Good police coverage and it saying 0 crimes is no bug, most towns of criminals but not all commit crimes. No crime, no time

[CaribbeanSail 33]

I am running into this bug with my newest city.  Population 200k, has all 3 zone types and all wealth types.  There are 200 criminals in the city, but to date, not a single crime has ever been commited or an arrest ever made.  I have a large police station and a small one, but they wont arrest unless they criminals actually commit a crime. 

 

Exiting and loading the city again does not fix it.  Criminals still do nothing. 

might be a bug, but police don't make arrests unless criminals are currently committing a crime, the helicopter follows the criminals around who have committed crimes until the police cars can get to them, if you research the detectives at the university they can arrest criminals who are not currently committing crimes

 

and if you have good police coverage I think it scares the criminals into not committing crimes, I've had a city with detectives and it said 200 criminals per day, 50 arrests per day, and 0 crimes committed per day

 

but then again it could also just be a bug like you think

 

Yes I am aware of how the detective unit works.  But that isnt really relevent here.  This is actually a bug, the criminals never commit crimes, in the 40 or so cities i have made so far this is the first time i have seen this, though I had seen mention of it on the EA forums before.  I am unaware of any workaround as I have dug for info on it, the bugged city apparently remains crime free permanently, reguardless of how many criminals there are.  You can actually bulldoze the police station and still zero crime.