Posted on 09/25/2007 7:57:49 PM PDT by B-Chan
Anyone who still refuses to believe that there are substantial numbers of corrupt policemen, sheriffs, deputies, and other "crimebusters" out there need only read the site to learn otherwise. The existence of copswritingcops.com is more evidence that, generally speaking, cops demand one standard of justice for themselves, and a second for everybody else. (Note the repeated use of the term "civilians" to refer to citizens who are not members of the law enforcement "family".) Even though the unequal treatment involves only violations of traffic laws, the existence of even the smallest double standard of justice is incompatible with the existence of a society where the law applies to all citizens equally. Copswritingcops.com shows that, to corrupt law enforcement officers, those citizens on the cop side of the Thin Blue Line are more equal than others.
Ping.
Wanna weigh in on this?
It’s not just the cops themselves, I know wives who have had tickets fixed.
If I ever catch them in a recent incident, then I’m going to quietly tip people off about it - starting with the chief, town officials, state officials, the media, or whomever.
Right now I have their trust, the crooked fools... I’m just waiting for “a story”.
“Cop courtesies” often extend to fire men, paramedics, politicians and relatives of cops. I have a cop in my family and have been on the receiving end of a courtesy. There’s nothing right about it but ask yourself, would I turn it down or would I insist that the cop write me a ticket?
If you say you’d rather get the ticket, you are straighter than I am.
It’s not just about the ticket. They’re seriously going to kill someone by speeding, and they sometimes do.
There was a fireman around here couple years ago, he killed a motorist who was stopped in heavy rain. Granted rain may have been a factor, but there is no question the guy was speeding and would NOT have hit the guy if he wasn’t.
The rain was a lucky excuse that got him off the hook.
You couldn't PAY me 50 bucks to take a MAC flight around the world on a C 130.. Hardly a perk
“This is a website created by law enforcement officers for the purpose
of lambasting other LEOs who do not render them “professional courtesy”. “
The site may be real.
But parts of it sound like they could have been written by Jay Santos
of the Citizens Auxiliary Patrol.
(the self-important cop-wannabe charachter played by radio-host
Phil Hendrie)
Can you name any time anyone has ever called the police because something good was happening?
I've been in over 10 years, and my only "free hops" have been missions and rides to the desert.
Power corrupts, bump.
Mostly NY and NJ boys who trash Rednecks, and expect country cops to overlook it.
Im ex-LEO and I never intentionally gave another officer or military any traffic citation but I didnt advertise the fact (until now ooops).
Why blatantly post something like this in public? Cops have a bad enough rap as it is because of traffic enforcement. We all know how LE is resented for what the citizen considers revenue generating citations and so called speed traps. Why add insult to injury and further tarnish LE integrity by posting this in a place where non-LEO can read?
Please dont misunderstand - Im not against cutting fellow cops and military a break Im just against advertising the policy/practice.
Awww. come on! The ear plugs are free!
They are pretty fast and loose with the term “civilian”, too.
So I see
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