Tickets, unmarked cars, tanks, swat teams, they are all about collection of revenue.
Serving the public is a joke. They very seldom write tickets for one of their own. If the law was meant for everyone, why not? Just as a regular citizen is told, you shouldn't of broke the law, why shouldn't the same thing apply to unionized cops?
A Sterling Heights cop wrote people tickets for not having their parking brake set in their driveways, (flat as a pancake). Their union kept him on the job. This is what they have become.
Tasering the sheep, or just fleecing them for their parking brakes, whats the difference, as long as they respect the authority of the rancher.
Are there traffic Nazi's? Yes. I agree alot of it is Chicken Excrement.
I don't see anything wrong with unmarked cars. I don't have a problem with SWAT, per se.
I don't write everybody I stop a ticket, I probably give just as many, or more, warnings than I do tickets.
I've also seen cops, 6 from my own department, go to jail. I've seen others arrested, some for domestic violence, some for drunk driving. So, cops don't always get a free pass.
I've also seen a captain shamed in the paper for having some of his troops issue citations to kids riding bikes without helmets and not having city bike licenses.
I never heard of being able to cite someone for not having their parking brake set... in their own driveway?? Wow... wonder if we can get something like that passed.
And, I can't remember how many cops I've seen get washed out before their year was on, or fired because they had bad attitudes.
Except for a female who couldn't find her fanny with both hands who was able to garner support from the N.O.W who saw to it, through the courts, that she was given a 35K a year desk job for 5 years. After she washed out of the training program.