My mom and I were driving to my aunt's house and we happened to see a speeding police cross the double yellow lines on the carpool lane of the freeway. Me being me, I asked my Mom why a police would do that and why no one was doing anything about it. She replied saying, obviously, that it's not like a police is going to give a police a ticket, so there's no reason the police wouldn't do that. That got me thinking.
There's something seriously wrong with our police system if the enforcers of the law aren't even following the law. Then it's entirely illogical for the police to be giving tickets like crazy to us civilians.
Right now our economy is doing very badly, and our poor police systems' salaries are being cut down. Apparently part of the police's paychecks are based on the number of tickets they give. So now the police are popping out in unexpected places, catching us off guard. Somehow they always happen to find someone that's doing something wrong. And because of our economic problems, I feel like the police are losing sight of their purpose.
The police systems were created because we needed a system that would keep us safe, not because we wanted them to pick at us for mistakes. The police should be enforcing the law to prevent car accidents and damage of private and public property. In my point of view (and I believe many others' as well) I don't feel like that's what the police are aiming for right now. We need the police to make us feel safe, not make us nervous in their presence. The police are the good guys, not the bad guys. Yet I feel like they're acting like the bad guys now. Most of the times I see the police, I feel like I have to be on edge because I just might be doing something "against the law" that I'm not aware of. And yet the other times I see the police, they're either speeding or doing something I've been told to be illegal driving wise. Both scenarios are clearly not sign that the police are protecting us.
Yes there's the good side where the police catch bad guys like murderers and thieves. But things like that, I feel like that's only happening on the news. Locally, the impressions of the police aren't necessarily good.
I may not be very knowledgeable in this matter. In fact, I could be entirely off, but when local citizens start feeling like this is the case, there's clearly something wrong. I'm not saying the police are abusing their power in any way, but I think it's getting dangerously close. When police start writing tickets for very minor errors that are purely accidental because the happen to get paid for it, then they're not exactly working for the benefit of the public. It's not wrong wrong, but there are some personal motives. Although many people may strong disagree with this perspective, maybe the those people should sincerely ask themselves if even a little of it is true. I wouldn't write it if it's entirely unreasonable.
There's something seriously wrong with our police system if the enforcers of the law aren't even following the law. Then it's entirely illogical for the police to be giving tickets like crazy to us civilians.
Right now our economy is doing very badly, and our poor police systems' salaries are being cut down. Apparently part of the police's paychecks are based on the number of tickets they give. So now the police are popping out in unexpected places, catching us off guard. Somehow they always happen to find someone that's doing something wrong. And because of our economic problems, I feel like the police are losing sight of their purpose.
The police systems were created because we needed a system that would keep us safe, not because we wanted them to pick at us for mistakes. The police should be enforcing the law to prevent car accidents and damage of private and public property. In my point of view (and I believe many others' as well) I don't feel like that's what the police are aiming for right now. We need the police to make us feel safe, not make us nervous in their presence. The police are the good guys, not the bad guys. Yet I feel like they're acting like the bad guys now. Most of the times I see the police, I feel like I have to be on edge because I just might be doing something "against the law" that I'm not aware of. And yet the other times I see the police, they're either speeding or doing something I've been told to be illegal driving wise. Both scenarios are clearly not sign that the police are protecting us.
Yes there's the good side where the police catch bad guys like murderers and thieves. But things like that, I feel like that's only happening on the news. Locally, the impressions of the police aren't necessarily good.
I may not be very knowledgeable in this matter. In fact, I could be entirely off, but when local citizens start feeling like this is the case, there's clearly something wrong. I'm not saying the police are abusing their power in any way, but I think it's getting dangerously close. When police start writing tickets for very minor errors that are purely accidental because the happen to get paid for it, then they're not exactly working for the benefit of the public. It's not wrong wrong, but there are some personal motives. Although many people may strong disagree with this perspective, maybe the those people should sincerely ask themselves if even a little of it is true. I wouldn't write it if it's entirely unreasonable.