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Re: Cops: Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them
JamieYanak@oai.org (Jamie Yanak) writes:
> I Don't think I'm a better person, but I KNOW I'm a better driver than most.
A recent poll in Ontario revealed that over 80% of drivers considered
themselves "better than average".
Maybe this reveals that 30% (at least) have overinflated opinions of their
driving skills.
Or maybe this reveals that many people have overinflated opinions of
themselves.
Or maybe it reveals that many people don't have a clue what's going on in the
world around them.
My bet is on "all of the above".
> I know I wasn't above the law, but you gotta understand, when you are the
> law, it becomes kind of an abstract concept sometimes...
It shouldn't, and that's the problem. Cops may be the enforcement of the law,
but politicians are make and remove laws; they "are the law" as much if not
more than cops.
We should not have to tolerate any infraction of the letter of any law from
either group.
> I mean have you ever seen a police car pull over another police car and
> give another cop a ticket? (there's a reason for this, think hard)
That's too bad. IA should have a traffic patrol touring the streets in plain
wrappers handing out tickets and/or reprimands to cops who can't be bothered
to obey the same laws that they hold like Bibles in front of us when they talk
down to us mere mortal civilians.
> I have NEVER, ever, ever, given a ticket to someone for 1 mph over the
> speed limit. And I would *conditionally* agree that any cop that did was
> being unfair. I was a cop for 6 years, and never heard of such a thing.
> We gave everyone at least 10 mph. This is considered fair, when taking
> into account differences in speedometers, hills, passing slower vehicles
> etc.
>
> (not to mention, heaven forbid, a screwed up radar-gun...*nah, couldn't happe
Thanks to the photo-radar vans here in Ontario, the OPP have been mailing
tickets for as little as 10 km/hr (6 MPH) to the *owners* of vehicles.
And you can be charged by mail, but you have to show up in person to plead
"not guilty". The New Democratic Party of Ontario passed a law saying
allowing these exceptions to the basic principles of our legal system so that
they could rake in millions every year in fines.
Geoffrey Welsh geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
We can only hope that people will outgrow the need for government
before the government finishes outgrowing the need for the people.
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