There are people that think that police and the courts are justice machines but that's just ludicrous.
The law is written in such a way that each and every one of us break a couple of dozen laws every single day. It is, in fact, a common law student practice to have students look up everything that they did in a day and see how many laws/ordinances they broke. The average is something like thirty laws in a single day.
We ALL break laws. All the time. Many times we don't even know we're doing it. There are portions of the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act where the ONLY way you can avoid breaking the law is if your car can fly. Those situations are rare, but they exist.
Police and the courts are expected to use judgement in the enforcement of the law. If they acted every time a law was broken we'd need hundreds of times as many judges, attorneys, administrators and the like and the entire system would come crashing down through overburden.
This cop was stupid and endangered someone's life over a TRAFFIC OFFENSE. And not a dangerous one either. He clearly has no ability to utilize judgement in his job and is unsuitable for it. The very fact that the woman was admitted to hospital should have been enough but even if she hadn't been, strokes are something you don't screw around with. Better to run a stop light or two than have your new wife die on you.
The guy's a moron and should be both canned and fined. He's a danger to the public. Plain and simple.
The law is written in such a way that each and every one of us break a couple of dozen laws every single day. It is, in fact, a common law student practice to have students look up everything that they did in a day and see how many laws/ordinances they broke. The average is something like thirty laws in a single day.
We ALL break laws. All the time. Many times we don't even know we're doing it. There are portions of the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act where the ONLY way you can avoid breaking the law is if your car can fly. Those situations are rare, but they exist.
Police and the courts are expected to use judgement in the enforcement of the law. If they acted every time a law was broken we'd need hundreds of times as many judges, attorneys, administrators and the like and the entire system would come crashing down through overburden.
This cop was stupid and endangered someone's life over a TRAFFIC OFFENSE. And not a dangerous one either. He clearly has no ability to utilize judgement in his job and is unsuitable for it. The very fact that the woman was admitted to hospital should have been enough but even if she hadn't been, strokes are something you don't screw around with. Better to run a stop light or two than have your new wife die on you.
The guy's a moron and should be both canned and fined. He's a danger to the public. Plain and simple.
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Police Officer stops man from entering ER while wife is having stroke
20/06/2010 10:08:49 PM
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So?
20/06/2010 11:53:33 PM
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Carrying a woman into the ER doesn't really scream "made up excuse"
21/06/2010 12:24:30 AM
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This story betrays a simple fact: police officers often abuse their "power".
21/06/2010 02:23:25 AM
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Re: This story betrays a simple fact: police officers often abuse their "power".
21/06/2010 04:22:31 AM
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unfortunately the law is on the officer's side, no matter whether he acted correctly
21/06/2010 07:09:13 AM
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well this is,really, a drastically different situation
21/06/2010 08:11:39 AM
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the point is, the officer is not required to show compassion, only enforce the law
21/06/2010 11:53:51 PM
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no. a officer is NOT only required to hold up the law.
22/06/2010 12:28:05 AM
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Re: unfortunately the law is on the officer's side, no matter whether he acted correctly
21/06/2010 02:27:59 PM
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I am sorryt but your brother-in-law didn't have the right to endanger others
21/06/2010 07:20:20 PM
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nobody has that right but there should be some leeway considering the circumstances *NM*
22/06/2010 01:31:00 AM
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At the very least the officer should have let medical personnel take the woman in for treatment
21/06/2010 02:56:30 PM
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"The fact is that the man broke the law" is nonsense. That's what judgment is for.
21/06/2010 05:30:26 PM
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But you can get pulled over for going 1 mile over.
21/06/2010 05:59:51 PM
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Yes, you CAN, but any cop who did is a pathetic waste, who doesn't deserve the badge *NM*
22/06/2010 07:06:19 AM
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But then he's have to use a cell phone while driving! Another crime! *NM*
22/06/2010 02:41:51 AM
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This is ridiculous
22/06/2010 03:18:03 AM
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How exactly did I justify anything? Perhaps you missed the subject of my post.
22/06/2010 02:28:21 PM
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I'm saying the fact that the law was broken is totally irrelevent,
23/06/2010 02:15:56 AM
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It is sad when idiocy and a lack of judgment becomes codified into law backed with enforcement power
21/06/2010 09:56:32 PM
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The cop should be fired and fined
23/06/2010 03:40:32 PM
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