I've never really had much interaction with the police in my life (a fact for which I have always been, and will continue to be, quite grateful), but have managed to acquire a distrust of them anyway.
The reason? Speeding tickets.
They have to fund themselves somehow, and if that means coming after you for being .5 MPH over the posted limit, then that's what they'll do. When you see a police car on the street, you never know if they're going to just sit there and wait for people who drive at unsafe speeds, or if it's getting close to the end of the fiscal month, and they're out to make quota.
On that note, has anybody else noticed that the group *least* likely to follow the traffic laws is the police? I can understand kicking it up a notch when you're en route to a crime, but policemen drive well over the speed limit as a matter of course. That's just the tip of the iceberg- both part of a much larger body of examples, and the only one I can see at the moment.
We've done a good job keeping this thread out of politics so far- let's keep that going, shall we?
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The reason? Speeding tickets.
They have to fund themselves somehow, and if that means coming after you for being .5 MPH over the posted limit, then that's what they'll do. When you see a police car on the street, you never know if they're going to just sit there and wait for people who drive at unsafe speeds, or if it's getting close to the end of the fiscal month, and they're out to make quota.
On that note, has anybody else noticed that the group *least* likely to follow the traffic laws is the police? I can understand kicking it up a notch when you're en route to a crime, but policemen drive well over the speed limit as a matter of course. That's just the tip of the iceberg- both part of a much larger body of examples, and the only one I can see at the moment.
We've done a good job keeping this thread out of politics so far- let's keep that going, shall we?
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.