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Cops Gone Wild: Corruption Meets Incompetence Edition
AngelHedgie
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A request to let a deputy's son off the hook for a speeding charge accidentally gets sent to the local newspaper :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048134/Police-clerk-accidentally-sends-order-scrap-speeding-ticket-local-newspaper.html
You know, I don't know what offends me more - that she was trying to get the kid off because he was the son of a deputy, or the fact that she couldn't be bothered to be competent in her corruption.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048134/Police-clerk-accidentally-sends-order-scrap-speeding-ticket-local-newspaper.html
You know, I don't know what offends me more - that she was trying to get the kid off because he was the son of a deputy, or the fact that she couldn't be bothered to be competent in her corruption.
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It is actually a pretty big deal. It may seem tame, but it's the first step in setting them above the law.
And with a name like doctor Thanatos, you know there is going to be only one perscription.
If other people can get ticketed for that, relatives or friends of cops can get ticketed. And cops themselves even. This idea that cops are able to elevate people above the law is heinous.
No, it's really not a big deal whatsoever. It's a tiny deal made big by people who have nothing better to do with their time.
So, it's okay that cops and their families can ignore the law when it's convenient for them? Because that's what you are arguing when you say it's "no big deal".
In related news, JustinSane is, in fact, insane.
Agreed. This is the same as having a lawyer for a father or a judge for a father that tries to get their son's speeding ticket expunged. There are plenty more cases of corruption in this world that are a much large issue than this minor distraction.
Here's the thing - it's the little cases that lead to the big ones.
A speeding ticket is a speeding ticket, this is not much worse than a retail employee using their discount to buy people stuff in my mind. I mean yea I agree that it shouldn't happen, but given the dozens of SWAT raids on the wrong house each year leading to so many innocent casualties, I'm having a hard time caring about speeding tickets.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg (ask any prostitute who's ever been arrested, for one example).
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Fucking enablers. What the hell is the matter with you people?
Oh okay, how about the woman who killed a man with her car in California because she was fucking around on her phone changing music instead of focusing on driving, and because she was a friend of the judge she got away with a $700 fine and had the nerve to post on MySpace (when it was more relevant) that people need to care about her just as much as the dead man, if not care MORE than him?
Jesus jumped-up Christ.
That's more like it. Let me kiss you, Thanny.
The slippery slope theory of police corruption has been well documented.
http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/committee.nsf/0/a467316feb212c4cca256cfb0013c1d2/$FILE/Research Report on Trends in Police Corruption.PDF
This is just one research paper, there are plenty more. Also the movie Serpico.
Yea, I know! I once knew a guy, he started speeding one day. I told him not too, but he did anyway. Then a cop pulled him over a couple weeks later. But he didn't care because his dad was a fire chief, got him out of the ticket. Next thing you know he is ignoring red lights, because hey his dad can just get him out of the ticket. Soon enough he's mowing down pedestrians with his car, but of course his dad just gets him off the hook like all those other times. Speeding and getting people out of speeding tickets are slippery slopes. Heed these warnings.
You are being rediculous. Yes, in a black and white world noone is above the law in any situation. But we don't live in that world. Nor would I ever want to be, because that would be even more of a police state than we currently live in. I like the thought that I could get out of a speeding ticket because my neighbor is a cop and I grill hot-dogs with him every couple weeks. It doesn't bother me that other people can get out of speeding tickets when I couldn't.
And when there is smoke, there is not always fire. Just because this cop tried to get her friends son out of a speeding ticket does not mean she participates in racketeering. You are over-reacting to something very benign claiming it leads to the source of all cancer in the world.
More cowbell?
Also, one of my friends in college who drove like a bat out of hell just kept his dad's business card opposite his drivers license in his wallet; his dad was a detective.
He had never been ticketed.
... If you cannot grasp the difference, you are a silly goose.
Did you righteously demand that you be ticketed because it was immoral for the officer to dole out special favors?
"It's just an itty bitty bit of corruption, so it's nothing to worry about! "
Do you realize how goosey you sound?
Wow. That poor strawman. He never saw it coming.
And there's a difference between "I think I'll let this person off with a warning because they seem genuinely regretful/are just some poor teenager" versus "oh, this person is related to a cop, that means they're immune to the law."
Not to mention there's a difference between just giving a warning, and getting an already-issued ticket dismissed.
The act of "getting a friend out of a civil infraction" through an act of conspiracy or bribery is a felony.
Is this a serious post?