>Also, it does kind of suck to drive around since you get
>penalized for running into ANYTHING when the case is all said
>and done, but you do have to drive around (in a police
>vehicle) if you want to get the street cases and those cases
>are really useful for boosting rank and getting new
>suits/intuition points.

I five-starred the jewel store shooting case and I had nasty accident with a trolley car. Granted, that's the only accident I had while doign that case, so I'm thinking that's why it didn't hurt me too much. I'm guessing the accidents will only hurt you if you do prolonged damage on the road or if you just carelessly run pedestrians over.