If this case happened the way it was reported, the driver should go to jail and the cop SHOULD lose his job. My problem isn’t with policing the bad police, it’s with believing everything that’s written in the papers or on blogs as the whole truth. You don’t think those lawyers could have set that whole thing up? I do. Did they? I don’t know, but it is possible.

The “rule of law” has been replaced by the “rules of law enforcement.”

It has been replaced by totalitarian anarchy.

It’s too bad that the drunk ex-cop in this story didn’t run into a car with a MADD mother in it; that’d probably be the only way this kind of thing will ever change.

Er, Jozef…. I think that department would have his fingerprints & photo already! It would have been on file since his earliest days in training. What happened with the bond is anyone’s guess.

New Orleans cop leads bridge officers on a high-speed chase, SLAPS one of them in the FACE, and yet was not arrested specifically cuz he was a cop.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/nopd_officer_suspended_for_all.html

The Mayor of Mandeville drives through a toll-tag barrier, continues driving down the bridge with his headlights off, refuses to pull over at first when the cops chase him down, ADMITS THAT HE HAD BEEN DRINKING, is NOT given a breathalyzer test, and gets off with a mere fine (no arrest).
http://www.wwltv.com/local/northshore/stories/wwl062408tpcauseway.36ba4395.html

I’d have to say no.

And yes, I live in the area.

We have a system of representative government – stop whining and stand the fuck up for yourselves.

That’s not entirely true. We have a constitutionally-limited democracy so that 1) the masses can’t trample the few and that 2) government agents cannot violate us in ways that are now routine.

http://www.komonews.com/news/archive/4085746.html

State supreme court justice blows an 0.21. Gets off the hit-and-run charge by successfully arguing she was too drunk to realize she smacked the car in front of her! Then gets off with treatment, and no time served, and then goes back to the supreme court!

Police are an extremely important factor that separates the US from the third world sleaze. When they act in this way they drag down society. Clean, open government is the best government.

He went into a big act at the scene, falling down, grabbing at his back, yadda, yadda. They had an ambulance carry him away, though amazingly enough they couldn’t find a thing wrong with him in the emergency room and he was released immediately.

He later sued me (and the person HE ran into), and the police report had mysteriously changed to make him blameless. Now it showed that I hit him and pushed him into the 1st car. He also introduced fake pictures that showed his car completely undamaged, although I remembered it being nearly totaled – with almost all of the damage to the front. This lack of damage contradicted BOTH sets of police reports.

The judge was a clueless incompetent, but again fortunately, it was a jury trial. They only awarded him minor damages. As my insurance company had early on offered him a settlement for more than his award, they were able to sue HIM for the attorney fees they incurred after that date.

This is largely our fault for allowing it to happen, apparently, over and over and over.

If you all want to get pissed, great, that’s what a free country needs. But don’t get pissed at the cops, you lazy fucks, get off your asses and do something about it. We have a system of representative government – stop whining and stand the fuck up for yourselves.