I returned and as you can see on the radar, I was tailing fuulek, obviously I wont be next to them so I would not get in the way of anything. This is a strategy, not out of vicinity. Even then, the question here is whether I really was teaming with them or not, and I was. Don't get me wrong, I still stand with driving closely behind them as being okay to defend them whenever, regardless of anything, because I am putting time and effort at following them, which makes it that I am directly involved with them. Otherwise, I am not sure how I am supposed to have fun if the rules say I should cripple my team by sticking right beside them all the time.
To make this more clear, you took away all my cops weapons that are worth over 100k, and changed me to a civilian, then jailed me. After being released from jail, I had to wait 5 minutes to go back to a cop again, then go and collect my weapons, buy etc. That's more close to a 7 minutes punishment, excluding the worth of ammo I had in my weapons that I lost as a cop, and the time it took to gear up again.
https://imgur.com/a/ivavesQFurther proof of losing my cops weapons:
https://imgur.com/a/slINJpJ