Moped Army

To: Davey and Vic

My argument has nothing to do with generalizations or cops harassing me. Furthermore, I never said that cops are dicks or even that I don't like cops as people. However, how often do police officers find themselves on the receiving end of tickets? How often do people get harassed by police after standing up for their civic rights? How often do police go to jail for crimes they commit? These are all questions that can be posed simply due to the fact that police officers do not hold each other accountable on the same level as everyday citizens. Generalization? I think not. It is fair to say that there is at the very minimum one officer in every department who breaks traffic laws, It is also fair to say that other police officers have witnessed his or her law breaking and simply done nothing about it. This leaves the police officers' inaction to be as much a crime as what is committed and a failure of his duty to uphold the laws as he is sworn to do.

I live in a jurisdiction that is aproximately ten square miles of island. There are two main roads, one of which I live on. My road has a speed limit of twenty five miles per hour. There are, at any given time, three patrols on duty. This means that at least one goes past my house every half hour. Not once in the last two years of living here have I seen a police officer actually travel down the road at twenty five miles per hour. So that means that every patrolling officer in my jurisdiction is breaking the law. Now they do a lot more then just speed but you get my point.

If I performed my job as they do theirs, I would be fired, I would be held accountable. However, who are they accountable to when they are traveling down the road without their boss driving behind them? Also, on a side note I have complained and it has only bitten me on the ass, as I am the only mini cooper that lives in the area. Oh and I wasn't breaking any laws, but they sure as hell made up reasons to pull me over and give me a hard time.

This falls in line to what quatto witnessed. One bad cop and another doing nothing. Honestly I feel that you should file a complaint. This all should be recorded by one of the patrolman's cars and you could most likely have a decent case against him if you wished to pursue it.

Even though it sounds as though I have a vendetta against cops, I don't. Just feel as though the system that they function within is flawed. My grandfather was a cop who was shot in the head while on duty and is now a quadriplegic. He and his fellow officers are very nice people.