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This type of case isn’t very clear cut, because a police officer is allowed to let somebody off with a warning. They’re obviously not allowed to let PBA members
by AmericanChopper 6y ago
This type of case isn’t very clear cut, because a police officer is allowed to let somebody off with a warning. They’re obviously not allowed to let PBA members off as a blanked policy, but good luck proving that they’re doing it.
I worked with one police department once a long time ago that tried to institute a policy never letting police or police union member off with warnings. So if an officer stopped a car for an infraction, and found out the driver was police or a police union member, they had to give them a ticket for it. It was arguably pretty successful, especially since there were a lot of rumours that people were driving about with union cards trying to get tickets (no idea how true that was).
- sokoloff 6y agoIt seems it would take about 15 minutes for a signaling mechanism to emerge. Cars that had a particular shield sticker left of the license plate would not be stopped. (The display of such stickers would probably be protected speech.)
- AmericanChopper 6y agoWhich would take just about as long to catch on with the public as a way to avoid tickets. There is no perfect system to address a problem like this. But if officers/union members know they’re at least as likely to avoid the possibility of leniency as they are to encourage it, then they are both less likely to commit traffic infringements to begin with and less likely to try corruptly weasel out of them.