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First, I want to tell you all to calm down. I know this can be a heated discussion, but there's no need to attack each other and swear at each other.


Well, I've never gotten a ticket because I drive safely (not necessarily legally) and the cops don't care as long as I'm not a danger to people. I've known people who successfully fought tickets in court. They "enforce" their authority because it's their job, not because they can.

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I've seen cops turn on their lights to make it though a light. I've seen them speed down roads just fucking around.

I have a scanner, and I would think the same that you do, but every time I've seen them run lights, they were in pursuit of suspects, and would lose track of them and probably not find them if they stopped. Same goes for "just fucking around." They might bethe nearest unit to be able to respond to a situation. Maybe you should try getting a scanner and seeing if they're really fucking around, or if they're rushing to a home where a kid called 911 because his father is beating his mother and the officers don't want to give him time to hide evidence, or if they're trying to make it to make it down a clear road where sirens would cause more problems than they solve and get to the grocery store with the defibrilator in the back of his car because an old woman just had a heart attack and the difference between getting there in three minutes or two can be a life-or-death situation. Maybe that woman is your mother or grandmother; I doubt you'd be pissed at a cop for speeding past you at twice the speed limit if he saved her life.