Jail?

[x2yzh9]

How about if your stuck in jail for say, a murder and a police officer put you there, and then be able to sneak out but after a certain day the police stop putting you in jail and shoot to kill? Also commiting crimes should be arrestable, and if you kill a witness to the crime then it doesn't go on your record?

[stolas]

This actually works rather well, but you may want to expand it a bit. Day one of the outbreak, the city is probably under martial law, the presence of the army later implies that they are simply swamped and thus the local police are the only government forces present at first.
Maybe give the police handcuffs to capture a player, then attempt to drag them to a new building, a jail, and lock him or her in there. Going to jail means both the player is locked up, and that there would be two army rations under the bed as a sort of supply to keep the prisoners from starving. So, a player that was feeling rather contrary could have in his possession a ton of food and deliberately get arrested to get two extra rations and a set of bars between him and zombies.
Getting out would be the tricky part. Any ideas?

[stolas]

Handcuffs would forcibly become the only equipped item once used, lowers the damage of player attacks, and may allow a limited dragging or pushing mechanic for the cop to use.
This game needs a larger community to attract modders for items like this I believe, there are a lot of great ideas.