Even the King is under the law. That’s one of the fundamental ideas behind the British and American system of government. No one in power — not the king, not the president, not the judges — is allowed to break the law.
That idea has a strong corollary: those who enforce the law are also under the law. After all, who is the king if not the chief enforcer of the law? And if the king is under the law, shouldn’t those who work for him also be under the law?
That’s why I reacted with anger and outrage when I saw this site. Cops Writing Cops - Where’s the Professional Courtesy? Law Enforcement and Police Officers help each other.
This is a site for officers getting traffic tickets that ANY normal civilian could get a warning on, verbal or written. This is a site for cops, about cops, and designed by cops. Needless to say, we are fed up with hearing about this and think something should be done. There’s always another ticket down the street. We are all family and maybe someday you may need one of us to get out of our car and save your sorry ass. But odds are you’re the cop that doesn’t do anything to begin with.
If you are a police officer, trooper, court officer, correction officer, telecommunicator, highway patrol, federal agent, or any other type of police (peace) officer either full-time, part-time or retired that has been disrespected or insulted by another police agency (officer) by not receiving some sort of professional courtesy, please email staff (at) copswritingcops.com with the information.
They have all kinds of nifty features like “DICKS OF THE MONTH”, dedicated to exposing cops who have the absolute gall to actually write up another cop for breaking the law. Personally, I think that feature should be renamed “HEROS OF THE MONTH”.
The entire idea that cops — by virtue of their job — should be immune from “minor” tickets is utterly offensive. They shouldn’t be granted special privileges just because their job has a certain element of danger. Despite what they seem to think, they are civilians just like the rest of us. They are no more or no less under the law as a result of enforcing the law.
Many people believe we live in a Christian society. Well, the Bible had some pretty specific things to say about treating everyone justly.
Deuteronomy 16:19You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. (ESV)
These officers aren’t accepting bribes, but they sure are showing partiality. That never works out well for society.
Proverbs 11:111:1 A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
but a just weight is his delight. (ESV)
A false balance: sometimes traders would have one scale to measure goods and money for friends and another (false) scale to measure goods and money for people they didn’t know. What better way to cheat somebody? These officers are cheating society by using one standard for “brothers” and another, harsher, standard for everyone else.
Proverbs 20:10Unequal weights and unequal measures
are both alike an abomination to the Lord. (ESV)
I don’t like that kind of a double standard. And neither does God. Non-Christian officers aren’t expected to follow God’s standards — they’re not His, after all. But Christian officers had better beware if this is the standard of justice that they’re using.
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