LF: Laws Don’t Apply to "Heroes"

Here’s a video documenting another case of law enforcers not enforcing the law… on law enforcers.

A man who had been issued a ticket – that is, ordered to hand over a sum of money as punishment for violating the law requiring both a front and a rear license plate – went to the local police department parking lot, where he video’d several vehicles without front license plates (and one – a Chevy Tahoe – with no license plates at all) but no tickets being handed out.

A law enforcer was present, so the man approached him to ask why he wasn’t doing anything to enforce the law which was enforced without mercy on him. As they talk, the SUV with no plates at all starts up and leaves. The law enforcer takes no action to enforce the law prohibiting the operation of a vehicle on public roads without tags. He expresses no “concern” about this “suspicious” vehicle.

He is also indifferent about the several other vehicles – all of them apparently personal vehicles, not for “official use only” – parked nearby without front tags.

The guy recording the video asks the law enforcer whether he is electing not to enforce the law because the cars without tags (or only one tag) are owned by fellow law enforcers. The law enforcer does not directly answer this question but instead claims there is no violation of law because the vehicles are parked (try that excuse next time you get ticketed for not having a front plate).

Except for the plate-less Tahoe, which started up and backed out of its parking spot as they talked. In plain view of a law enforcer.

There was no “hot pursuit.”

Instead, what is known as the Blue Discount was applied. This is like the Race Card; both grant special privileges and immunities which the rest of us are not supposed to question. If we do, it is considered to be racist with regard to the former and “anti-cop” with regard to the latter.

The plate-less Tahoe departed without incident.

They Have a Job to Do, you see. Stop interfering.

Here’s another video of law enforcers serially “running” stop signs. In blatant view of other law enforcers… who do not enforce the law requiring a complete stop before proceeding:

Law enforcers also routinely overlook mandatory “buckle up” laws ignored by their fellow enforcers – and often ignore this law themselves. Because they find the wearing of a seatbelt inconvenient, a hassle. Of course, so do we. It is an annoyance and besides, we’re not children.

But the law only applies to us.

Like the laws about having plates front and rear.

The front plate is ugly and often requires drilling holes in the bumper, forever marring it. But we are required to have the front plate, no exceptions, in order to make it easier for them to identify (and ticket) us. There are no excuses. The law is the law… unless you are a law enforcer.

Then the Blue Discount applies.

Law enforcers also officially flout laws forbidding the use of sail fawns while driving, having deeply tinted windows and driving faster than the posted speed limit. Not infrequently, a lot faster than the posted speed limit. Often, while texting on their sail fawns.

But if these laws are truly about “safety,” as we’re told, then there is no excuse for exceptions. The wearing of a uniform doesn’t decrease braking distances, for instance. Nor will a badge protect the wearer from impact forces in the event of a crash. Waving a gun around (“brandishing,” if we do it) is dangerous.

What about the officer safety we hear so much about?

What about our safety? Which, surely, is put in jeopardy by speeding cops, for example. And by cars without plates that can’t be easily identified. And by the waving around of guns.

Of course, it’s not about “safety” – theirs or ours.

It’s about showing who’s boss. Control – and collecting money.

From us.

Submit, Obey – and Pay.

They ought to put that in between quote marks and plaster it on the sides of their cars.

First, an article is posted about how wonderful it was when a cop used “officer discretion” to have a kid do 200 push ups instead of being arrested for smoking marijuana.

The officer was greatly praised for his use of such “a powerful, basic tool in policing” and it was expressed that without “officer discretion” there would be too many unnecessary arrests.

Now, you post an article where “officer discretion” may be a damnable abomination when some irate individual was berating an officer for not ticketing a Chevy Tahoe for the same offense he had been ticketed….that being having no front license plate.

While the irate individual, who was recording at the time, chastised the officer for not doing anything to enforce the law which was enforced without mercy on him and was taking no action to enforce the law against the driver of the Tahoe….the driver of the Tahoe was able to quietly drive away.

Dog gone it, the irate citizen probably caused us to miss his recording of the Tahoe driver doing 200 push ups in the parking lot.

The "heroes" are not being ticketed for not having a front plate on their personal vehicles...because - blue privilege.

Most folks believe that the police should abide by the same laws as we mundanes do. Then there are those folks who believe that police officers are a special class and are exempt from the same laws that govern the rest of us citizens.

From your posting history here one can deduce that you are in the second category.

Interesting that you didn't mention cell phone use and texting by police while driving even though it was also featured in the article.

Yet another example of "blue privilege" - had this death been caused by a lowly serf and not a cop, do you really think the outcome would be the same?

I drove for years without a front plate. Officers just gave me a warning. I'm not even blue.

Obviously you state doesn’t have a requirement that prevents an imbecile from driving either.

Interesting that you focus on the license plate requirement and nothing else in the article.