Corvette Demographics 2795On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:07:03 -0700, Scott en Aztl‡n $ Earlier this week, I saw a Corvette (not a 2005) whose driver had Cadillac disease. You know, driving along with a turn signal blinking. He...
And so do we. Well, most of us. But, please recall how often you state that cops should be held to a different standard. Now you want them held to the same one. You can't have it both ways. So, we promise to give this guy the benefit of the doubt, if you promise to stop defending illegal behavior by cops.
Please pause a minute. When you talk, you tend to argue offenses you have witnessed. So do we. You defend what we see in Illinois and NY and WA and elsewhere based on the laws in Texas. You argue that we don't know if the cop is really going somewhere important. As when you witness something, when we do we also know what we are seeing. The other night I saw a cop doing more than double the speed limit through a red light. Now you would argue there must have been a good reason, and it was safe or he would not have done it. I happen to feel what he did was safe enough, because I witnessed it, I know the light, I saw what he was responding to, and I judge that he did what was appropriate. I also know he is in a two cop town, and his fellow officer needed backup. Badly.
Had I not seen all this, I might have been mistaken by thinking he was wrong. Or, just maybe, I would have witnessed him blowing the light, and then pulling in somewhere that he obviously did not need to speed to. Even then, you would defend it, without knowing the circumstances.
So, unpause now, and feel free to ask us to give this guy a break. Just remember that the next time we talk about an OBVIOUSLY dangerous action by some cop. Give us the benefit of the doubt. Feel free to bring up possible reasons to defend the cop, but don't argue that we are wrong. Keep in mind that every circumstance is different.
