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laurell3 -> RE: Police = subhuman? (9/19/2007 5:02:11 PM)
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Wow careful people there are good law enforcement personnel and bad law enforcement personnel just like there are good and bad garbage men. I've had the opportunity to know quite a few very dedicated caring officers in my time whom I consider friends and ponder how they can do what is a very difficult job day in and day out. Unfortunately the few bad apples can cause alot of harm to an otherwise hard working bunch of men and women who do a job that most of us would not do.
Media is rarely a good source for determining what happened in a controversial situation as it tends to feed into the anticipated emotional response for more readers/viewers. I don't know if granny is jack the ripper or had disobeyed every other law on the books or the cop is an overbearing fool, but I know the posted story isn't the source of information to find this out.
With regard to laws, alot of small towns/cities have silly laws that are rarely enforced, sodomy is still illegal in many places. Unfortunately, what I have sometimes found to be true is people that are advancing bills to be made into laws are either what I refer to as "dogooders", that is people that don't have alot of knowlege of what the other 99.9 percent of the population lives like, or people that this issue for whatever reason is so important to them, they don't stop to think how the law will fit into the everyday society and other laws we all must attempt to follow or the time and resources the law will take that could be spent otherwise in more pressing situations.
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