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Officer Demoted After Writing Traffic Tickets Gets $175,000 Settlement
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Ah, sounds like that traffic stop started with, "Do you know who I am?"
The police literally have 'courtesy cards' they hand out to friends and family to avoid getting them ticketed - that's a practice that absolutely needs to stop.
Growing up I had a relative with one of these cards, signed on the back by the leader of the SWAT in the next town over. My relative was high on opiods while driving with me in the car when we got pulled over because he was nodding off and kept swerving and rolling stop signs and doing other dumb shit. He showed the cop the card and that was that, the cop was suddenly so nice and just let him drive off obviously drugged out of his mind with a child in the car.
Because they're a gang. They "protect their own." Which means relatives of other cops. Not the general public.
I think it should continue but every person who presents said card should automatically get the harshest legal punishment possible for whatever their infraction was.
Would have been a warning? Guess what, that card now entitles you to a $500 ticket.
Someone needs to print out a bunch of copies and leave them by the mailbox for people to take.
I got one of these from an immediate family member and had way too much shame to ever use it and never got a new one. It definitely gives "don’t you know who I am" energy, without actually being anyone, and idk how anyone sleeps at night acting that way