Chicago, IL—When you take job in various industries there are sometime sweet perks. If you work for the airlines you get free air travel. Waiters, cooks and restaurant workers get free food.
For cops the perk, is to not have to pay for our fair share of traffic citations. Yes, too often we drive our personal cars fearlessly, as we shamelessly break the law. Of course that does not include DUI, reckless driving or causing accidents. The Robocop extortion cameras put up to snare driver’s wallets don’t excuse cops in any way.
Cops today are suffering from lack of privacy in a big way. GPS, jerks with cell-phone cameras and dashboard cameras spy on police incessantly. So the job is far less desirable today.
Then there are plenty of police bureaucrats appointed by mayors that are obsessed with getting money from as many suckers as possible. They have spread poison in police academies suggesting that they should write citations to fellow cops.
Impressionable recruits may not understand that their very lives depend upon that fellow officer they wrote a citation last month who may not see the value of risking his life to help some kiss ass.
Any cop who writes fellow cops petty citations deserves to be a Pariah with nobody to back him or her up in an emergency.
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But I do hate the arrogant cops who drive like total asshats and don't care because they know they won't get a ticket.
Any of us can have a mental fart and blow a stop sign, forget to signal a turn or lane change or speed once in a while, but when you don't pay your license fees, cover up your license plates with dark tint covers or any other deliberate shit (usually with an FOP medallion affixed to the plate or rear for all the public to see) I want to scream. WTF!
I still don't write other cops a ticket, but the asshats still piss me off.
The law applies to everyone. It applies to law breakers just as it applies to law enforcers and to law makers.
Yes, there are exceptions and sometimes a warning is appropriate. That should be left to an officer's discretion.
But no one is above the law.
Cops should not be extorting from anyone especially other cops.
Having a tin does not give you a license to drive 90+mph in a 20 zone or blow stop signs ALL the time.
I dont write certain people like doctors or nurses for routine minor offenses because if I have to go to the ER I dont want any tubes shoved in places they dont belong.
The laws, like the politicians, are supposed to be there to serve and protect the people.
Politicians who make laws and policies for other reasons are just as bad as those who make policies of not enforcing laws. (I'm thinking of my home state of Arizona and our problem with illegal immigration that the past several federal administrations have chosen to ignore.)
We are a civilization of laws. Enforce the laws that exist and, where bad laws are present, then get them removed ... and the bad politicians with them.
(Yeah, I know, "easier said than done." But I did cast my vote in today's primary in AZ. And I did get into a Facebook squabble over the border issue with one of my liberal neighbors. Two small steps forward. Maybe.)
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