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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
So that is a case that warrants a ticket... The observed violation of:
A- public safety due to the double park and people needing to leave curbside to board the bus
B- posted law
The two situations aren't the same though, one is a case of public safety and traffic flow, which unfortunately went unpunished. The other is a case of a kid sucking on a lollipop which got him a $300 fine. Yes he broke the law, but temperance is essential.
Law isn't black and white... There are all sorts of shades of gray that police officers use to judge whether or not a ticket/citation, arrest, or charges should be given. If the police ticketed or arrested everyone for every time they violate a law we would spend astronomically more on policing, which in Canada is already a 6.8 billion dollar piece of our comparitively small pie.
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And this is where you and I differ.
I don't want an officer to make that judgement call. Note how you your own wording "officers use to judge." I am not interested in that beat officer just standing on the corner. If someone is breaking the law in front of him he should be citing as many as he can, not issuing warnings. When you see an officer on a stretch of highway you slow down, once you pass him you speed up again, but funny after you get pulled over and ticketed, you tend to not speed for a little while one tends to come to full stops at stop signs.
For an officer the law is black and white, for judges there are shades of grey.
From another thread I posted:
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Originally Posted by cynthetiq
Police enforce the law. Judges interpret them.
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