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I don't tell a brain surgeon how to do my job, so why should I let someone with no experience, training or knowledge on how laws are created in this country tell me how to do mine?
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If you're going to rant, at least do it right.
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However, when there are plenty of serious things going on and yet they stop someone for something as petty as mudflaps that is pretty retarded. I guess that's job security.
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And you have personal knowledge of what and how many types of calls departments get? I guess maybe next time when I see someone with a broken out taillight driving down the road at 2am, I should just move along there's absolutely no possibility that it could be a bad guy, while ten miles down the road there's a remote possibility that Farmer John is getting his pickup stolen at that very moment in time. Oh wait, I just let a drunk driver go and thirty minutes later, he collides head-on with your wife who was returning from her job at the hospital.
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Your sole method of debasement of me is that there is no way that I can know anything because I'm not trained as law enforcement. That's pretty shaky, at best.
I said priorities. You're really stretching here. In fact, I think you've already reached the elastic limit of stupidity. At 2am, I doubt there are many things you can do besides paperwork so why not let the guy know he has a broken taillight or a headlight out? Drunk driving is a far more serious offense than some guy tooling down the road with no mudflaps. C'mon, you can do better than this.
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More than likely. When was the last time you held a fellow cop accountable?
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Haven't had to.
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Good. I hope you do the right thing when the time comes. And it will come.
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It really amazes me at the amount of stupidity that comes from the general public about law enforcement. Kind of reminds me of the time when I was in beautiful Hawthorne, NV last year and the town do-gooder tied up a deputy sheriff for an hour cause the race promoter's father rolled through two stop signs at about 2mph. I'm sure he had something better to do.
If you don't like the laws, then go back to the Civics lesson comment I made earlier, lobby to have them changed. That's the way it's done, otherwise, kindly refrain from making idiotic comments about something that you truly have shown that you know nothing about.
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You already admitted that you have the power of discretion and that you use it.
If someone doesn't make people realize that there are consequences for doing something stupid like rolling through stop signs, failure to yield right-of-way, and the like they'll continue to do it.
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They're also proven to be worse than average drivers. Per mile driven, they have a worse than average incident of property damage.
I'm calling BS on that one right now until I see concrete proof otherwise.
Call up your insurance company.
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You made the accusation, now provide the proof.
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I've spent the last thirty minutes googling for it. I have yet to find it. I didn't read it on the internet anyway, I watched it on TV. It makes perfect sense to me. It's just like motorcycle enthusiasts, the longer they've been riding the more likely they are to get into an accident because they get too comfortable on the bike.
