My take on this:
There is more ways to make money than just selling coke/weed to locals. This way is the quickest and requires 0 RP. If you sell for 2hrs you make enough money to buy a pistol. However as a gang member there are so many different ways to make more money such as flipping guns, setting up deals with smaller groups/gangs to buy off you, making money by mining and smelting etc etc.
Being at war, of course the police are going to focus on you more heavily and are going to constantly search you but that's their job. if your crying over loosing a standard that#s just poor. You shouldn't go into a war if your not ready for one, being in war your most likely going to burn through your whole armory you should be stacked beforehand. If police heat is getting to much for you and your loosing too many guns and resources then end the war, call a mutual agreement. However that probably wont happen due to big Ego's.
On the other hand i agree police are a big state atm. The professionalism they should have isnt shown throughout, should never be hearing a police officer go 'get fucked pussy' . The one scrap policy on cars is very annoying but it causes ppl to not bring out their 1mil car in a big shootout. However i do think it is abused a fair bit and is very harsh. They also do get involved a bit too much in certain situations which becomes a big issue. I have seen a probie drive on his own into the middle of a gunfight causing him to get killed which then means all the other officers who were waiting have to initiate, leading to a big gang vs police fight. The long sentences are a bit of a joke. It would be a lot better if sentence lengths were reduced but all the time had to be spent online in prison. However a big reason as to why these ppl are getting over 12k months is due to continuously shooting police. If someone is getting arrested and they have a pistol on them, is it really worth turning around and shooting the whole police force to try and save a pistol when it could risk you all loosing guns, getting long sentences etc. Sometimes you just have to take the L