In my experience there are two kinds of cops: good decent professional law enforcement personnel, and uniformed bullies who get off on having a gun and authority over people. Hartman strikes me as the latter, and that type of cop never worries about going off half-cocked, because they're always certain they have the right do any damned thing they please. The piddling details of the law don't matter to them, except insofar as they can use them to make someone else's day worse.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.