((You're right in that. I'd assumed you'd just forgotten brackets. Apologies. Really.))
To be completely honest, most of the time the actual complaints are from people who're new to the guard and haven't had time to thicken their skin. Many a time we've had people leave because of the way we're treated, when all we're doing is attempting to do the job we're given.
If we must arrest you because you broke a law and refuse to pay the fine, then it is your fault. You broke a law. We're the people who attempt to withhold it.
Now, if you're in such a situation, more oft than not, you'll get a day ((10-20 minutes)) in the cells and be released on a warning. Obviously repeat offenders will be dealt with more harshly, as well as people who come roughly.
The same is true if it's the opposite, or at least, if you're speaking with me it is. When an imbecile is running along the walls of the city, bothering me at my post, I will most definitely deal with him more harshly than if he'd been doing something else, that perhaps does not make my job any harder.
People call us racist. Say we pick on so and so because he's an orc, or an elf, or whatnot, when it's quite obvious he'd broken a law and if it had been a human, it would have been the same- Except that everyone starts to shout about our bias opinions upon this 'so and so'.
It is not only the guard at fault, but the peoples around us as well. When I visited alstion this past month, I witnessed a man get sliced to death with a stone sword as execution, because he'd been shouting blasphemy. Where are the numerous complaints of his racism (for he was an elf, and the other a dwarf.), his bias?
They didn't exist because the people around him were not intent upon making him a monster, whereas the people of Aegis seem to be, toward the Oren guard.
I do not say our recruits are well trained. I do not say our training process doesn't have flaws. What I say is that we do not have any more than the norm for such a large city. such a guard.
All I ask of you, citizens of Oren, at the very least, and those that visit, do not pick a fight with us over something you heard over an ale at Dawn's, or anywhere else. Base your assumptions on facts, at the least, and not heresy.
Thank you.