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Originally Posted by dyna mo
laws are laws. if we want police to act like police, then police enforce laws. if someone is breaking a law, they receive a citation. it doesn't matter if you or someone else thinks a particular law is trivial and cops shouldn't enforce it.
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Apparently in US you have mixture of hard punishments, lack of common sense and criminal cops.
"Laws are the laws, fuck yeah. If your tail light burns out, we fill fucking beat you."
Police is supposed to prioritize things. And police is supposed to serve the community, that is above all its purpose. Enforcing laws is just part of that. Harassing people over burned lights is not very much serving the community. Lights get burned as those are used, there are always cars with lights burned. And police is not supposed to be some light inspector. We have somewhat annual vehicle inspections for that (not done by police).
I am not saying that police can't sometimes stop a car to notice about burned light, but it sure as hell isn't its main task.