QUOTE (Doc Chase @ Jan 11 2011, 07:10 AM)
I'm surprised this is still even being debated. It's rather clear in the source material that this is the case wherever DocWagon has an agreement with the folks at large. If you're in their coverage area and they can cross corporate or government boundaries, they will pick you up and remand you when you're stable.
Yeah, I can see this happening. But I can also see in the contract stipulation that they will abide by and not be held liable to their contract for instructions made to them by the local law enforcement who have legitimate law enforcement jurisdiction of the property. If its public property, Lone Star will trump Doc Wagon on the scene, and so what if you have a contract with Doc Wagon, its great if you're in the slums with zero Lone Star patrols, but if you're in a hot situation with them currently, Doc Wagon will not be blazing or intervene with Lone Star. They'll make a request and wait for permission to access the suspects. If not, ah well, they tried with all reasonable (and legal) efforts to extract you, so they will not be held liable.
The arguments that they'll lose customers, no, they will not for regular joe average, public abiding citizen, who will NOT be doing such things such as be in an entanglement with Lone Star. That Doc Wagon is acting legitimately and working with the local enforcement officers is fine with the joe public, if there is an incident, the corp can always ensure better PR spin to explain off why they could not go in after the client. The arguments of economics, well, LS and other law enforcement corp will probably be a bigger customer than the shadowrunner (professionals, not including gangers/organized crime) group as a whole in a city. The gangers as a whole won't be able to afford it, it'll be the organized crime who can afford it, but even that group is not as large or be as consistent with contracts.