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The cop should be fired and fined SilverWarder Send a noteboard - 23/06/2010 03:40:32 PM
There are people that think that police and the courts are justice machines but that's just ludicrous.

The law is written in such a way that each and every one of us break a couple of dozen laws every single day. It is, in fact, a common law student practice to have students look up everything that they did in a day and see how many laws/ordinances they broke. The average is something like thirty laws in a single day.

We ALL break laws. All the time. Many times we don't even know we're doing it. There are portions of the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act where the ONLY way you can avoid breaking the law is if your car can fly. Those situations are rare, but they exist.

Police and the courts are expected to use judgement in the enforcement of the law. If they acted every time a law was broken we'd need hundreds of times as many judges, attorneys, administrators and the like and the entire system would come crashing down through overburden.

This cop was stupid and endangered someone's life over a TRAFFIC OFFENSE. And not a dangerous one either. He clearly has no ability to utilize judgement in his job and is unsuitable for it. The very fact that the woman was admitted to hospital should have been enough but even if she hadn't been, strokes are something you don't screw around with. Better to run a stop light or two than have your new wife die on you.

The guy's a moron and should be both canned and fined. He's a danger to the public. Plain and simple.
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So? - 20/06/2010 11:53:33 PM 639 Views
Seriously? - 21/06/2010 12:11:17 AM 703 Views
Carrying a woman into the ER doesn't really scream "made up excuse" - 21/06/2010 12:24:30 AM 1101 Views
Time and place. - 21/06/2010 02:25:27 AM 717 Views
Plus he was carrying a woman - 21/06/2010 11:40:18 AM 757 Views
Oh please. *NM* - 21/06/2010 03:34:16 AM 298 Views
i cant even take this seriously. - 21/06/2010 04:28:12 AM 802 Views
he clearly wasn't just "making up an excuse" though. - 21/06/2010 10:59:13 AM 837 Views
unfortunately the law is on the officer's side, no matter whether he acted correctly - 21/06/2010 07:09:13 AM 638 Views
well this is,really, a drastically different situation - 21/06/2010 08:11:39 AM 699 Views
the point is, the officer is not required to show compassion, only enforce the law - 21/06/2010 11:53:51 PM 552 Views
no. a officer is NOT only required to hold up the law. - 22/06/2010 12:28:05 AM 560 Views
i'm not disagreeing with you - 22/06/2010 01:25:43 AM 671 Views
except in this case (you seem to be ignoring this) - 22/06/2010 01:35:21 AM 620 Views
At the very least the officer should have let medical personnel take the woman in for treatment - 21/06/2010 02:56:30 PM 648 Views
But... - 21/06/2010 04:58:06 PM 712 Views
"The fact is that the man broke the law" is nonsense. That's what judgment is for. - 21/06/2010 05:30:26 PM 671 Views
But you can get pulled over for going 1 mile over. - 21/06/2010 05:59:51 PM 705 Views
the thing is... - 22/06/2010 12:29:43 AM 555 Views
But then he's have to use a cell phone while driving! Another crime! *NM* - 22/06/2010 02:41:51 AM 320 Views
Not in TN *NM* - 22/06/2010 02:02:32 PM 262 Views
This is ridiculous - 22/06/2010 03:18:03 AM 672 Views
How exactly did I justify anything? Perhaps you missed the subject of my post. - 22/06/2010 02:28:21 PM 616 Views
I'm saying the fact that the law was broken is totally irrelevent, - 23/06/2010 02:15:56 AM 713 Views
How can it be even slightly irrelevant, let alone "totally" so? - 25/06/2010 03:24:19 PM 592 Views
It is sad when idiocy and a lack of judgment becomes codified into law backed with enforcement power - 21/06/2010 09:56:32 PM 1031 Views
i don't even know if I'd be happy with a lawsuit - 22/06/2010 12:31:18 AM 603 Views
The cop should be fired and fined - 23/06/2010 03:40:32 PM 575 Views
You are such a bleeding heart liberal.. - 25/06/2010 03:22:42 AM 588 Views
LOL - - 25/06/2010 03:11:47 PM 582 Views

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