Cops really serve no purpose. Real easy to avoid them. No the rare chance they do become you the AI resort to old school Driver levels of annoyance where they have speed boost like they are driving modern cars and just ram you over and over. No that I post that this game reminds me of Driver 2 in various aspects
The cars in this game all kinda drive like shyt, which is accurate for the era, so the speed boost really seems more related to severity. Like, I broke into a car infront of a cop, he barely chased me and I got away in some 2 cylinder POS. But when I murked a couple cops in a fire fight, and they were flooring it, made it really hard to get away.
Still, even with the cop cars being faster than regular cars as it should, the defensive driving is dope. When they pull up trying to ram me, but then I send them into oncoming traffic or a tree / light pole, shyt is gratifying.
This shyt feels spot on, cops shouldn't be hyper motivated psychopaths like in GTA, eating bullets, driving like Jeff Gordon, and having GPS on youre position.
At the very least, the witness system makes committing crimes more interesting. Where GTA just gives you auto stars for killing people out in the middle of no where, this game gives you a chance to avoid calamity by taking witnesses out. If they don't put something like this in GTA6 I'll be disappointed