[viaveritasvita]

I'd be curious to know if there is indeed a law preventing profanity in the public arena or not. I truly hope there is and that the police officer is exonerated.

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[OldFriend]

Profanity allowed everywhere and anywhere if it's against conservative values.

[mlc9852]

Where I live there are laws against using profanity on public highways. I know someone who was charged with it. It eventually was dropped but the law is on the books.

[ChevyZ28]

There are many states that do in fact have public obscenity laws on the books. However, they are almost never enforced due to First Amendment Protections. I am a law enforcement officer, and have been for almost 2 years now. North Carolina, the state where I am employed has such a law, but I have never seen it charged. I have spoken to the assistant DA in our county about this subject, and he has told me that getting a conviction on such a charge would be so close to impossible, it does not merit the time necessary to charge some one with such a crime.

Our society has finally reached the point, that obscenity is now relative. What is obscene to one person is not to another. This is just another profound piece of evidence pointing to the obvious moral decay slowly but surely destroying our society. Which brings me to the following point. In short, I would not waste my time charging some one with this crime. The DAs, the judges, and even the reasonable citizens (would say off the record they would love and support it) if I and other officers did charge this crime, however, convictions for this would almost never occur because obscenity is viewed as relative to the individual and the conviction would almost certainly be over turned.