I bet that cop abuses their spouse.
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First line of the article says he is supposed to protect New Yorkers. That is not true. Police have successfully lobbied for decades and have absolutely no mandate to protect anyone but themselves. They loudly and clearly stated that their job specifically exists to enforce the status quo and to bulldoze through anyone in the way. They don't want to help anyone. They don't want to protect anyone. It's in their job description and their training not to.
It's in their job description and their training not to.
Chat, is this true?
In most circumstances, police officers do not owe a personal duty to protect specific individuals from harm. The dominant principle comes from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (1989)
Also see: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005) Warren v. District of Columbia (1981) Linda R.S. v. Richard D. (1973)
As you can see from reading through the cases mentioned above, the law doesn't require police to protect you or even to enforce the law. Combine this with precedent set by police unions and qualified immunity.
Warren v. District of Columbia "is a District of Columbia Court of Appeals case that held that the police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens based on the public duty doctrine." And Castle Rock v. Gonzales, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for refusing to enforce a restraining order, even though the refusal led to the murders of a woman's three children by her estranged husband.
Batshit crazy and ruled 7-2 too not even a slim majority
That doesn't answer their question
I'm sure you read through those cases. I added a couple more in my comment above. What, in those cases didn't answer the question? It's quite clear to me...
Receiving 547 fines in the mail over 4 years means he's treating speeding as a paid subscription. Strange that they don't cancel his driving licence. In Canada, we have points, so this wouldn't stand. I don't think we could have even 5 tickets in 1 year without losing our licence.
Even in Canada, tickets from traffic cameras don't cost points. The vehicle owner is responsible for paying the fines, but without being able to prove that the owner was the one driving they can't add demerits.
Uk here. Failing to advise who the driver was can get the owner 6 points and likely a driving ban.
License points are a thing in some US states too
Don't normalize automated driving enforcement, ALPRs and police surveillance tech. I get the spirit of this story that the watchers should be held accountable, but when the electric eye is on us we're all criminals. The surveillance state needs to die
If I was American, I would be a lot more than mildly infuriated about the pedocratic police state that is the US. But I am not American, so mildy infuriated fits perfectly for me I guess.
As an (US)American, I wake up every morning screaming into the Void.
Then the Void requests a subscription fee.
I'm not legally allowed to sleep until I've paid the Void, one way or another.
I wake up every morning thanking whatever god wants to listen that I wasn't born American.
truck drivers are synonymous with speeding and drunk driving, and usually driven by meatheads.
It's specifically Ram truck drivers for the drunk driving part, most DUIs of any make and model by a long shot.
2 times each 5 days over 4 years. How come he still has a license?
That and... How do you afford these expenses? Also cop?
Cop
An average full size truck sits at 6'. This short king is the height of a 12 year old
Edit: 6' not 6"
- 6'
Perfect example of policing in America. Their primary mission as a force is to protect themselves at all costs just like any other gang or criminal organization.
Fun fact! The police are the largest gang of armed robbers in the country, collectively stealing more money than all other armed robberies and burglaries combined, and it's totally legal for them
Civil asset forfeiture is one of those things where when you hear about it your first reaction is that it must be some fringe conspiracy theory because there's no way the police could get away with something like that, right? But no, it really is that bad and it's done completely in the open. Cops can just steal your shit out of "suspicion" and the process of getting it back is deliberately labyrinthine and difficult.
Can you prove your inherited grandmother's engagement ring actually belongs to you? Receipt please! Oh you don't have one. It's ours to auction off now!
And the father of civil asset forfeiture was DNC centrist darling and father of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians himself, Joe racist-dipshit biden, who belongs in prison along with trump and many other american politicians.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/joe-biden-father-drug-wars-asset-forfeiture-program
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Oh, I thought it was just literally every large white pickup truck.
Wait, hold up. In the picture, is that the actual size of that truck? Or has the size been exaggerated?
I live in a small town so I'm sorry to say, that is exactly how big pickup trucks are now. What isn't clear from the angle of that photo is the bed is most likely less than 6 feet long, meaning it can fit less in the bed than a minivan with only rearmost row folded down.
The best part is, in rural America there's folks who look at that stock truck, say it isn't big enough and get a lift kit and extra large tires installed so it rides 2 feet off the ground and the wheels extend multiple inches past the fenders (sometimes they're further out than the mirrors even) and the illegality of such mods on public roads goes entirely unenforced. Oh and those are the folks who don't also make their trucks roll coal
I'm fully convinced that in 50 years we will be STUNNED that this was normal once. Just like lobotomies, or smoking in schools.
Yeah well I remember being convinced that racism would go the way of the Dodo when I grew up too. Sadly some 40 years later it seems to be thriving.
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Tell me again how traffic cameras make us safer and we can totally trust them to be applied objectively for public safety and no other purpose?
Maybe in US...
From where I am, they are 100% slowing everyone down. In fact, so much that I am getting annoyed by that. Thing is, people will go 60 in 50 zone, then see a camera sign, slow down to fucking 40, roll pass it and then pedal to the metal back to 60.
Easy optional solution how to make people actually slow down on the camera: make fine indexed. If they earn a ton, they get a huge ass fine. Say 5% of a monthly income. Stacks to 50% if they are a serial rule breaker. That way not many will speedup.
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