No, more like SN is having dinner, playing with his kids, taking out the garbage, reading / writing a brief, or anyone of the myriad of things a normal guy has to do.

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I met our Sheriff at lunch today and mentioned this post. He told me about two weeks after the election, and warning his deputies about speeding, he caught a deputy at the end of his shift speeding back to the station. Wrote him a ticket. An hour later, in the exact same spot, the Sheriff stopped him again and wrote him another ticket, this time while the deputy was off duty.

Yes, all the deputies have radios in their personal cars and are expected to respond in an emergency. They are also issued cell phones and must notify their superior if they will be out of the county when off shift.

I like our new Sheriff. Cool guy.

BTW, I agree with you about ticketing cops who are speeding while on-duty but not on a call. Perhaps they should be treated even more harshly than us regular citizens. It’ll never happen but it’s nice to dream.

I also noticed SN doesn’t have the balls to jump in here and defend himself. That’s because he knows he’s wrong. I’m sure it won’t be the last time.

I’m listening to John on TWiT now. You should take some lessons from your mentor SN.

Supposedly in a democracy every one obeys the law, even presidents.

Yeah. Supposedly.

Enough with this two tier society. Supposedly in a democracy every one obeys the law, even presidents. Enough with the excuses and exceptions.

I think you guys have been talking past each other.

SN, when Gary said the article was about on-duty cops, he was right – that’s what it’s about. So when he pointed that out to you, you kept referring to “…driving their own cars, without any lights or sirens…” – but that’s not who got the tickets! When they talk about proving their innocence with radio logs, that means they were on-duty. They don’t have radios in their private cars – and they don’t get radio calls when they’re off-duty…

If you’re saying that they should be ticketed even on-duty if they’re not on a call, I agree with you 110%… but even you must admit that if those fucking cameras are creating a stream of tickets for cops who are legitimately on emergency calls, that would be a genuine, unjustified pain in the ass, am I right??

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And on your response to my post there –

“When I see a cop, in the middle of the night, with no one watching, stop at a red light and wait…”

You’ve actually seen this?! Wow, have you ever seen a yeti or the loch ness monster?!

Yes, truly – and more than once – and in, of all the unlikely places, Houston… how’s them apples?

Great fun…

I commend these machines for their fair and balanced behavior. And another musing, who speeds when driving on the clock anyway? Not me, and probably not police officers.

I’ll say it again…

There is a system set up for people who are given unjustified tickets. It’s called traffic court. If these cops truly have justification for driving their own cars, without any lights or sirens, through red lights or above the speed limit, the courts can deal with it in an open and public manner. I see no reason for the police to have their own private and internal system.

“So what you’re trying to do is confuse the issues.”

Nope, I’m living in reality. You’re living in a delusional dream world.

“If they’re on-duty and, let’s say speeding to your house because you heard a burglar downstairs, they do not deserve a ticket.”

I’ll say it yet again….

There is a system set up for people who are given unjustified tickets. It’s called traffic court. If these cops truly have justification for driving their own cars, without any lights or sirens, through red lights or above the speed limit, the courts can deal with it in an open and public manner. I see no reason for the police to have their own private and internal system.

“The article is referring to cops on duty and you’re referring to cops off-duty. You can’t have it both ways”

I’ll say it yet again…

There is a system set up for people who are given unjustified tickets. It’s called traffic court. If these cops truly have justification for driving their own cars, without any lights or sirens, through red lights or above the speed limit, the courts can deal with it in an open and public manner. I see no reason for the police to have their own private and internal system.

How many cops in Baltimore get away without paying for legitimate traffic tickets with their closed internal system? Answer: We don’t know because it’s a closed internal system with cops helping other cops.