SOMETHING TO REMEMBER: COPS R ALMOST TOTALLY IMMUNE from PROSECUTION ..
...u say..that's UNFAIR ! And yes it definitely is...meaning cops generally are "persona gratis" and can't do anything wrong (unless its caught on videotape or absolutey irrefutabally based on credible witness testimony). The main reason cops are given "immunity" from almost all prosecution in the line of duty is because they wouldn't accept jobs as police officers if they weren't given immunity.
Thus, the municipality must make some sort of "guarantee" that they will back up the officer 100% for any and all situations where the cop is "just doing his job." Its the nature of the beast. As I was saying about "dropouts"...its not that dropouts are so dumb, or that "college kids" are so much smarter, its that college kids accepted the SACRIFICE of going to college, while droputs do NOT.
Going to college doesn't necessarily mean you are an Einstein genius, nor that u can even operate a cash register, nor a police radio for that matter (without training).
Most of the time going to college means you have at least a little bit above average intelligence or more, but more importantly that you are willing to SACRIFICE self, time, money for the greater good, and dropouts are NOT willing. Thus we have to dangle little "sweets" to get these dropouts to participate in society, whether it be as a clerk or a cop or a cashier or a cook....whatever it may be. What we NEED MORE OF are people willing to sacrifice for the greater good without some sort of "guaranteed immunity" .
In some regards going to college has some parallels with "carrying the cross." The Christian walk of life is a sacrifice too, with no guarantees of anything here on earth. We do hope for heaven, but we do so solely by FAITH. We have NOT empirically seen this heaven, nor empirically seen God or Jesus. Some days (actually every day I encounter it in one way or another) its frustrating when u encounter one of these clerks or cops or mechanics who will only do something if u "show them the money" as they say. They need to see the gold, or they don't give. Nothing is done out of "goodwill" or generosity of "for the kingdom". "Show me the money" they say. Show me the LOVE I say. Just a little bit.
JVK
