As said above, we've already reduced the jail time by a great margin. Reducing it further would make jailbreaks pointless because you'd be out before the jailbreak is even initiated. It would also affect balance of various activities such as Br where more criminals would be present due to ability to return more frequently even after an arrest.

If you want do spend less time in jail you can use /sur which will reduce your jail time to roughly a minute only.

"BR holding" is not an intended concept, it was made possible because of a flaw in the script and is considered abuse of the BR system.

BR becomes a BR once there is a sufficient number of gang members in the bank, who are in the process of cracking. Up until that moment the BR is nonexistent and can be overtaken by any other gang who shows up with the number of members required to initiate a BR. One player standing in a marker has no purpose.

Reserving a bank for your gang in advance by sending one player over there or calling it in team chat is player made construct and not in any way encouraged or sanctioned by the rules. There is no reason for you to send one person over and risk alerting the police, you can simply not do that.

Finally, we're currently working on means through which the event of cops switching spawns to prevent a BR should be made impossible or far more difficult.

There is no efficient way to constantly keep track of gang members who temporarily quit their organisations and use police spawns to manipulate the system. Unfortunately, merely having a rule forbidding players from doing this has proven ineffective, which is why the current system was implemented.

For this reason the cop limit will remain to take only squad members into consideration.
Furthermore, judging by the BR logs, the only prolonged period without sufficient cop presence is between midnight and noon.

I don't see why all banks would need to be at a similar distance from the nearby hospital.

There are six banks in total. If you do not fancy one, there are five others to choose from.

@crash Same as in case of any other event of collateral damage, such as criminals killing each other with grenades while trying to damage a cop, it depends on the situation and whether it was intentional, careless or accidental.

Cops are not allowed to attack/damage planes which contain only unwanted players, doing so would be deathmatch.
In cases where there are wanted players on board, damaging and destroying the vehicle through any means is allowed.

Consider not taking any wanted players aboard the plane to prevent getting attacked, or use different means of transport.

The vehicle itself will not receive any special protection through creation of new rules just because it is frequently used for reaching BRs.

It is not currently in our interest to make BR, of which regrouping is a part of, any more difficult than it is at this time.

Thank you for reporting, the reported player has been banned.

Every gang or squad has access to a list of punishments issued to their members.
As soon as one of their members is adminjailed, the information is available to them.