[kiryandil]

The net effect, if the officer had followed your advice, was to allow a perp to walk away from his crime. This is what you would be suggesting.

CONFRONTATION! CONFRONTATION!! CONFRONTATION UBER ALLES!!!

He was a rent-a-cop - a Mary Mallninja. Just because he was dressed in his Official Overlord Enforcer Costume doesn't change the fact.

Is every unruly "civilian" a "perp" in your Perpetual-War-With-The-Peasants world?

Man, you pretend soldiers are really weird.

If the cop had done this, isn’t that being a bad cop?

He wasn't a cop at the time. He was being a Farce Enlawment Orifice coon-dog.

[Jonty30]

A cop is always a cop, even when off-duty, chum.