Comments on: Cops against ticketing cops

By: jb

jb — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:45:22 +0000

Considering what’s going on in St. George, Missouri (http://12angrymen.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/beat-me-in-st-louis-cops-power-and-abuse/), I’m not surprised by any of this.

By: David Schwartz

David Schwartz — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:47:40 +0000

I’m wondering if this site isn’t intended to have the opposite of its apparently intended purpose.

As I read through some of the reports, many of them really make like the reporting cop sound like a moron. This may not be an accident.

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:57:45 +0000

This site (and other information just like it in the past) make it absolutely crystal clear that traffic laws are, in the opinion of the police, about raising funds via tickts, not about safety.

You shouldn’t write the FAMILY of an officer? Boom. Every single argument about public safety being the intention is shattered by that one claim.

A professional extreme driver (a stuntman, let’s say) has absolutely no way of getting permission to speed, but a person who happens to marry a cop? It’s not about safety. End of story.

(That’s not to say that such laws do not PRODUCE safty, or that other groups think they are for safety. I’m referring to the opinions of police officers.)

By: Joe Bingham

Joe Bingham — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:12:14 +0000

The testimonials are the funniest part. These cops are so evil and corrupt that they think it’s grossly offensive that other cops have integrity!

“Now as a training instructor, she was is the danger zone. She wasn’t paying any attention to what was going on. She was just writing the ticket. She looked to be well over retirement age and probably was just sticking around to get those few more percents on her pension. She didn’t even see my duty weapon.. 🙁 In plain view…” This moron thinks that since she didn’t give him a ticket, she must not’ve realized he was a cop!

“This is the tip of the iceberg, but make no mistakes this guy would write his own mother.” That’s … bad?

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:04:58 +0000

I like the posting by the officer who reports letting another officer go who was doing “150 on LSD” as an example of “courtesy.” The “don’t ticket other cops” view just breeds public disrespect for traffic safety rules. After all, if those who are in the best position to observe the negative effects of disobeying such rules see no reason to follow them, why should anyone else.

By: Anonymous Attorney

Anonymous Attorney — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:19:16 +0000

Why don’t the cops just obey the traffic laws when in their private vehicles? Seems that would take care of the problem.

Seriously, you’re never going to completely rid even the most punctilious societies of these kinds of light corruption. That’s unrealistic to expect. But it is realistic to expect that the beneficiaries of this kind of corruption will 1) keep quiet about it and 2) keep the “courtesies” limited to modest situations. That’s how you both avoid attracting attention, and maintain fairness to the general public, which doesn’t get these “courtesies.” I think a lot of folks understand – and don’t mind too much – that a cop won’t write up a cop for doing 63 in a 55. Low pay, dangerous job, need for camaraderie, catch a break, fine. It’s when he won’t bring him in for DWI — that’s when we have a problem. Or when he sets up a website in an attempt to formalize the “courtesy” system.

By: Platy

Platy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:59:42 +0000

Wow. They use all the same dumb excuses that civilians come up with.

As a registered nurse working at the trauma center, the local cops don’t write me tickets but I certainly have no expectation that it will happen every time. And I don’t expect that to work when i get far from home (although it has worked in far off suburbs).

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:40:12 +0000

This is ridiculous. We should start a list of the cops who think they should get a break but never gave one to the private citizens paying his salary.