Mike the Strike wrote:
Precisely. if you're going to act as a policeman, you can't
selectively choose which rules you're going to enforce and which you're
going to ignore.

Either enforce all equally or none.

I'd like to hear from a few actual policemen on that subject,
informally of course. I'm pretty sure you are wrong on that score. The
oath aside, one of the first things learned on the job is precisely
that you have to choose your battles, so to speak. And if that lesson
doesn't come from the street, it comes from the system.


Jack