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Be careful what you ask for though. Cops are given a lot of discretion about whether to make an arrest, issue a citation, or a warning, or none of the above. I
by throwawayboise 5y ago
Be careful what you ask for though. Cops are given a lot of discretion about whether to make an arrest, issue a citation, or a warning, or none of the above.
If you start demanding that they never "break the rules" it could have outcomes you didn't want.
- pauldenton 5y agoWe've already got selective enforcement. Compare how the protestors who stormed the capital during the Kavanaugh hearings got treated compared to those on January 6. look how anti lockdown protestors were treated compared to BLM protestors. If you want a world with selective enforcement you're living in it.
- Buttons840 5y agoWhat kind of comment is this? You seem to argue that it's OK to "break the rules" sometimes, and your reasoning for this is something vague about unwanted outcomes? I don't see any substance to this comment. If you have an argument you need to make it more explicit.
- 3finmunchousen 5y agoI think he's implying that a citizen might be the beneficiary of police not strictly enforcing rules. For example, being issued a warning rather than a citation. I personally don't find that to be an especially compelling argument to avoid the use of body cameras. If one frequently finds themselves subject to lax enforcement of laws to their never that points to a systemic issue in the law or it's enforcement