If a gang is led by staff, and certain members show continuous will to break rules, they should be kicked from that gang. Staff allowing those people a position among staff only further contribute to rule breaking in the future. Most serious and repetitive rule breaks on this server come from staff gangs, and frankly yes, their leaders protect them by intervening in the matter before the ticket escalates.
Teamplayers aren't some regular ol conquest gang anymore. It's time to throw the retards overboard.
@ WALT I and most of this server respect you as a person, but when you made that leap to staff, the actions of those in your direct vicinity began reflecting on you personally. It tells the server 'this guy can't even keep order in his own gang, why the fuck does sr staff think he can be trusted to keep it over the server as a whole."
For all of Aegis' faults, this is one they've never struggled with. @ Mako does a fairly good job at making sure his people aren't flagrantly breaking rules and when they do, they comp, admit it, and apologize instead of hiding behind his skirt. This is a sentence that pains me to say, in this one particular situation, you need to get on Makos level.
If you were a chief of police IRL and you had a cop on the force that seemed good at his job, but in his off hours spent the entire time hanging out with human traffickers and drug dealers and conveniently NEVER witnessing them commit a crime, you would seriously begin to question that officers integrity and ability to do his job. The same exact thought process occurs over a moderator who's tasked with enforcing server rules almost exclusively hanging out with the worst violators of said server rules.