It seems that the taxis and police form a quite close knit relationship. Most importantly the "official" taxis serve as extra eyes and ears for the police. Unsurprisingly the police have the taxi union's back in this kind of a situation and resort to these kinds of intimidation tactics.

Hmm.. I used to be quite addicted to TW2002 back in the day (5-6 years ago) when I lived in Kalamazoo (616-area). We found a nice "race-condition" -bug in the game with a few buddies and cheated like hell on a couple of the larger multiline boards in the area. Wonder if CmdrTaco&co. fell victim to our raids ;) (I was young and stupid.. Sorry :) )