To be perfectly honest, a lot of this game's design choices are really questionable. Mappy's ability to sneak drugs into the cars of his enemies of his enemies and use that to arrest them is really broken. Also, his military grade weaponry power up is somehow even more broken, to the point where it feels like overkill. Not only that but this game's gold economy is really poorly balanced. The mechanic where Mappy gets money from politicans is way too strong and because of said mechanic, he has more money than he would ever reasonably need.
All in all, future Mappy games should phase out the punishment-focused gameplay and start focusing on the rehabilitation mechanics which even I can admit are pretty good.