09-01-2020, 02:44 PM
(09-01-2020, 11:33 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: While I appreciate you sticking up for Fred you're not addressing the point I challenged, which is his statement that the "get out of jail free" cards affect a person's criminal record. What you're describing above are traffic infractions, not criminal offenses.
It cracks me up when people try to make this argument "Sure, you can prove police are crooked about SOME things, but they have to be 100% honest about everything else." When it is proven that cops are corrupt about the small things then it is not unreasonable to assume they are also corrupt about big things.
But even if it is just for "minor infractions" we all know about the "broken window" theory of law enforcement where minnor infractions are just used as a tool to search for guns or weapons or other contraband that could lead to criminal charges, So just letting people walk on "minor infractions" allows them to escape the other criminal charges that are only discovered through the enforcement of "minor infractions".
For example, in the story that Dill linked the guiy was expecting a sobriety test when his friend got pulled for running a stop sign. Thios leads me to believ that there was some probabale cause for a sobriety test. Yet none was conducted. So avoinding a traffic ticket probably led to avoiding a DUI.
