Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Please people, take care of your traffic tickets...
...pay them, go to court and challenge them, whatever, just do it. Because when people let them slide, we get stuff like 97 year old women getting arrested on warrants.
I trust no one is under the illusion that anyone wanted to arrest the old woman. I'll grant cuffing her was probably unnecessary, but keep in mind that what the officer did was by the book, and police officers deviate from the book at the risk of their jobs. Police officers do not get paid enough, and do not receive enough appreciation for taking crap from people convinced that just this once, maybe the nice officer could do things differently from the way he'd been told to by his commanding officer.
Make life better for all of us. Take care of your tickets.
I trust no one is under the illusion that anyone wanted to arrest the old woman. I'll grant cuffing her was probably unnecessary, but keep in mind that what the officer did was by the book, and police officers deviate from the book at the risk of their jobs. Police officers do not get paid enough, and do not receive enough appreciation for taking crap from people convinced that just this once, maybe the nice officer could do things differently from the way he'd been told to by his commanding officer.
Make life better for all of us. Take care of your tickets.
