Originally Posted By: qwerty1234
ray, I disagree. If you are an off-duty cop you deserve a break or two. The rookie officer needs to see how it's not the academy and it's the "real world". These Red Light tickets are destroying the U.S. one ticket at a time.
I think you got it all backwards.
yes, they lose 1 "perk" but
1) Police would prefer red light cameras as it frees them to "real world" crimes. In the "real world" as you describe it, your fellow off-duty cops should understand the same as well that this frees up other cops to do "real" police work.
2) If you are arguing redlights loses the "professional courtesy" perk for LEO and that's destroying the US. I think many will argue the exact opposite that actually it's the "professional courtesy" that's destroying the U.S, and there's actual current news cycle and proof that this is a thing.
If an officers does not follow the same laws they are charged to enforce. If they claim to be a pro, they are trained and supposed to know better. It would be like letting a pro basketball player just go ahead and not have to inbound a ball, cause he's a pro.
What are the riots, protests and random shootings against LEO literally about? It's not that LEO lost their redlight running privilege. It's because there's a us-versus-them against the police.
What are the police apologist's go-to argument to defend the arguments? They say there's just one bad apple in any organization.
How does one bad apple get that way? By losing respect for the law and that they have to follow the same laws they're enforcing, and where they'll get covered by their buddies.
First they run red lights, then maybe they throw back a couple extra beers before driving home, then maybe it gets worse from there.
If you google "professional courtesy cops", you'll get tons of examples where this went wrong, and anyone higher than the front line officer who benefit from it thinks that overall it's a bad thing that shouldn't be extended but well curbed.
The actual incidents are one thing, but then there's the whole PR and . The functioning of the US society is all dependent on the theory that everyone is treated fairly If the public finds out that LEO don't actually follow the law, you get protests and riots and things get worse.
Look at other countries where it's expected that people can get away with things and cops are corrupt and there's bribery and things of that nature. Society continues to function, because people know and expect that is how things work there. But if you think corrupt society works better than the less-corrupt US society, i think you got a hard argument to win.