Very true, and a good way to look at it. HArd for me to call it "victimless crime" when you read all the time about excessive speed being the cause of fatal crashes involving motorcycles.
The way I have always looked at it is like this: If i get pulled over for speeding, and I was speeding, the police officer is only doing his job. It's not my job, your job, or even really HIS job to decide what laws get enforced and which ones dont. The reason I say it isnt his job either is because someone in the police department decides who goes where that day, and if he draws traffic partol, then thats what he does.
Speeding and breaking into a house and selling meth all have one thing in common: they are against the law. ALl he's doing is enforcing the law, whether he agrees with it or not. If you have that attitude when you deal with a LEO, a lot of times it WILL get you a break.
And on that note, i dont know if i even agree with that. If someone broke into your home and you called the cops, and they came and arrested him, but got a light sentence because he was nice to the cops/judge, etc, would YOU be happy about it?
Think about it.
First of all, there is a big difference between breaking 100 on a deserted
country road (except for the leo) and driving unsafe like an idiot at excessive
speed to your death in traffic. Hence the victimless crime tag. Not to mention
when you throw in tickets for doing 47 in a 35, I really don't think your a danger
for a 10 car death pileup.
Secondly the fact that the officer draws traffic duty for the day IS MY POINT.
90% of the officers are doing traffic duty, patrol our homes not the roads.
We all should be busting the Mayor and Chief of Police/Sheriff as WHERE and HOW
he allocates his officers time. Throwing our hands up and bending over
for the officer for no reason saying it's his job is
?
Thirdly there is huge difference between doing 85 in a 55 and freakin' meth house.
My question is, why ain't he at the meth house? OH wait, I know...cause that
takes real police work and WILL actually make a difference. It's easier to sit
on a road and pop us for nothing.
Understand I am not bashing the LEO, I'm bashing the way we our wasting
our manpower resource. Most of us a law abiding citizens that occasionally go
a little faster than the posted speed limit. It's all a game right, they hide behind
trees we buy radar detectors, they get more sophisticated radars, we get
better detectors...leave us alone and spend your time busting the meth houses
maybe if they patrol our neighborhoods more, we wont see a story about the
next kid that gets abducted and winds up missing...there is a thought huh.
