Today, I drove my wife to work in Glendale, CA and observed a patrol car parked at the edge of an intersection back from
the traffic flow.
The officer appeared to be waiting.
To get to my wife’s office, I had to go up the street and turn around. I parked and from there walked to our local coffee stop.
I notice the officer with his radar gun and he pulled off in hot pursuit of the blatant criminal.
I could see the other car was going a bit faster than the others. The traffic was light and the car was not going excessively
fast unless you are revenuing!
It was obvious that the office was not trying to protect the citizens but was trying to collect fines for the city!
Why else would he be hidden from view with a radar gun.
I went on to get the coffee shop. With in the 5-10 minutes I was gone, he returned and while I was walking back, he was off
after another driver.
America was built on Freedom. The police in this area, maybe not Glendale, have it written on their cars “Protect and
Serve”. That is a proper viewpoint and perspective for public servants.
So where do the actions of entrapment and covert methods of collecting fines come into this?
Who idea was it to arm the police with radar so they could hide and catch someone going a few miles per hour too fast?
Why is some many man hours devoted to levying fines instead of preventing crimes?
Have they caught all the murders, rapists, robbers? NO, they are too busy catching the mother going to the grocery store,
the student going to school, you and me, not criminals but the citizens whose taxes pay for their wages!
I have no problem giving someone who is really speeding a fine. But too many, far too many times, the fine is not for
endangering others it is ONLY REVENUING!
I feel the practice of the police abusing the Citizens needs to stop. This needs to come from above from the police chief or
mayor.
I welcome comments on Comments on The Times!
Carl Watts
7/4/2008
See related articles Comment on The Times “The Police and the Citizen,” and “The Police
and the Citizen Second Edition” and “The Citizen and the Police, Good News.”
ps: I also recently added an article "The Citizen and The Police, Good News" which tells of
a few of the many good deeds done by our peace officers.
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